· Public charity
Lexington Lions Club Endowment Inc
The organization offers services to visually impaired preschool children and to their families in order to maximize each child's developmental potential.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLUEGRASS COUNCIL OF BLIND | $30,380 |
| KENTUCKY LIONS EYE FOUNDATION | $24,000 |
| VISUALLY IMPAIRED PRESCHOOL SERVICE | $22,500 |
| RADIO EYE | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 71% 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.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BCBLUEGRASS COUNCIL OF THE BLIND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $212k · revenue +82%
- VIVISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +44%
- RERADIO EYE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $118k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY DEPARTMENT OF OPTHAMOLOGYone grant, 2020 · $10k
- LCLIONS CAMP CRESCENDOgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +478%
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.
The organization offers services to visually impaired preschool children and to their families in order to maximize each child's developmental potential.
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The Association's Mission is to fund quality eye treatment for the medically indigent of Alabama. Services provided include providing glasses, surgeries, anesthesia, medically necessary contact lenses, prosthesis, tests and eye medication.
The society enhances independence, empowers individuals and enriches the lives of people who are visually impaired or blind.
To privide glasses to visuallly impaired to help the blind and to help the deaf
Provide mobility and orientation training, classroom training, field trips, and recreational activities for the blind residents of contra costa county.
Employment of the blind and visually impaired
Provide vision and hearing screening and corrective vision and hearing surgeries to individuals within arizona who economically are unable to afford such services.
The Mission of Mid-South Lions is to positively enhance the lives of indigent sight or hearing impaired individuals by providing light, sound and hope through partnerships with area Lions clubs, medical professionals and medical facilities…
To provide employment opportunities and vocational rehab to vissually impaired individuals.
To eliminate treatable blindness through the training of eye care professionals and development of eye care infrastructure.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kentucky Lions Eye Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Un-Shackled By Love. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 10 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 BLUEGRASS COUNCIL OF THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RADIO EYE INC ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY LIONS EYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Un-Shackled By Love ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT TRANSPORTATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LIONS CAMP CRESCENDO ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Lexington Lions Club Endowment Inc 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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