· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLUEGRASS COUNCIL OF BLIND | $30,380 |
| KENTUCKY LIONS EYE FOUNDATION | $24,000 |
| VISUALLY IMPAIRED PRESCHOOL SERVICE | $22,500 |
| RADIO EYE | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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 society enhances independence, empowers individuals and enriches the lives of people who are visually impaired or blind.
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Employment of the blind and visually impaired
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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.
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lexington Lions Club Endowment Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lexington Lions Club Endowment Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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