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Kentucky · Public charity

Lions Club International Lexington Lions Club Inc

Promote the theory and practice of the principles of good government and good citizenship and to take an active interest in the civic, social and moral welfare of the community.

$249k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Itemized grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
63%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$203k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$127,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 63% of the organizations Lions Club International Lexington Lions Club Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$203k0%
FY20248$196k63%
FY20233$124k0%
FY20225$116k60%
FY20201$123k0%
FY20191$73k0%
FY20181$111k0%
FY20173$104kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$805kHuman Services$106kReligion$58kHealth$52kRecreation & Sports$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lexington Lions Club Endowment Inc$805,113845%
Leader Dogs for the Blind$35,00020%
A Caring Place Inc$28,000420%
Kentucky Lions Eye Foundation Inc$22,00021%
Itnbluegrass Inc$22,00024%
Step by Step Inc$20,50022%
Envision Blind Sports$17,50023%
Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc$10,00010%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($88k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Lions Club International Lexington Lions Club Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLexington Lions Club Endowment Inc: $805,113 over 8y, 45% of budgetLeader Dogs for the Blind: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA Caring Place Inc: $28,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetKentucky Lions Eye Foundation Inc: $22,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetItnbluegrass Inc: $22,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetStep by Step Inc: $20,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetEnvision Blind Sports: $17,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetHospice of the Bluegrass Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Blue Grass Community …Amazonsmile Foundation
Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Lions Club International Lexington Lions Club Inc

How much does Lions Club International Lexington Lions Club Inc give?
Lions Club International Lexington Lions Club Inc reported 8 itemized grants totaling $202,500, out of $248,520 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Lions Club International Lexington Lions Club Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (77%), Human Services (10%), Religion (6%).
Who are Lions Club International Lexington Lions Club Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lexington Lions Club Endowment Inc ($805k), Leader Dogs for the Blind ($35k), A Caring Place Inc ($28k).
Does Lions Club International Lexington Lions Club Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lions Club International Lexington Lions Club Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Lions Club International Lexington Lions Club Inc based?
Lions Club International Lexington Lions Club Inc is based in KY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
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