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Lark Ellen Lions Charities
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY | $5,722 |
| ACADEMY OF MUSIC FOR THE BLIND | $5,500 |
| SCHOOL ON WHEELS | $5,000 |
| BLIND CHILDRENS CENTER | $5,000 |
| HILLSIDES | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL CITY ACTION COMMITTEE | $5,000 |
| LION'S CAMP AT TERESITA PINES | $4,500 |
| BRAILLE INSTITUTE YOUTH CENTER | $4,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY YOUTH CENTER | $4,500 |
| DOLORES MISSION | $4,500 |
| EL CENTRO DEL PUEBLO | $4,500 |
| ALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER | $4,000 |
| HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES | $4,000 |
| OLD TIMERS CLUB 121 | $4,000 |
| MEND | $4,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
22 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- ECEL CENTRO DEL PUEBLO INC4× · 2017–2020 · $23k · revenue +35%
- MBMARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2020 · $22k · revenue +150%
- TBThe Blind Childrens Center Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $19k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- D4DISTRICT 4L1 YOUTH EXCHANGEone grant, 2019 · $259
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)
To support, train, and employ people who are blind or low vision and increase their opportunities to lead an independent and fulfilling life.
The mission of the Candela Group is to bring stability and an improved quality of life to our clients and their loved ones affected by mental illness by uniting them with public and private mental health services Our lived experience as…
To provide each student or participant with the access, skills, and opportunities needed to become successful and productive members of society, and to encourage them to have some fun along the way. The Organization offers support and…
To turn possibilities into achievements for children with visual impairment and their families. we envision a world where all children with visual impairment have equal access to healthcare,education, and support to be successful in life.
Through a holistic approach to emotional well-being, Wellnest offers hope, healing, and opportunity to the children, young adults, families, and communities we serve. Our commitment remains steadfast as we enter our second century of…
To provide residential and supportive services for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. To achieve this mission the organization has constructed three residential homes and a recreation building.
Achievekids schools provide individualized and multi-disciplinary programs that deliver special education, mental health, and family support services for students ages 5 to 22 who have complex and often severe developmental, emotional, and…
Provide Independent Living Services for persons with developmental disabilities who want to live, work and socialize in the community. Including housing, assistance in entering the workforce, shopping, adult education and other community…
To help people with developmental disabilities reach their highest potential and guide them through their special needs journey.
Consejo brings healing, health, and hope to communities through holistic, culturally, and linguistically competent behavioral health services and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is School On Wheels Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marshall B Ketchum University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds EL CENTRO DEL PUEBLO INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Blind Childrens Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Academy of Music for the Blind ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CITY ACTION COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds LIONS CAMP AT TERESITA PINES ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDES ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
- Who funds ALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity ↗
- Who funds Wayfinder Family Services ↗
- Who funds 826LA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Rose Hills Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Lark Ellen Lions Charities funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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