· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $202,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $248,520 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $46,020 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $128k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEXINGTON LIONS CLUB ENDOWMENT INC | $127,500 |
| LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $18,000 |
| ITN BLUEGRASS | $12,000 |
| ENVISION BLIND SPORTS | $10,000 |
| UNSHACKLED BY LOVE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| STEP BY STEP | $10,000 |
| A CARING PLACE | $8,000 |
| KENTUCKY LIONS EYE FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 0 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
- LLLEXINGTON LIONS CLUB ENDOWMENT INC8× · 2017–2025 · $805k · revenue +304% · 45% of their budget
- ACA CARING PLACE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $28k · revenue +350%
- IIITNBLUEGRASS INC2× · 2024–2025 · $22k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- LELIONS EYE BANK OF LEXINGTONone grant, 2017 · $20k
- HOHospice of the Bluegrass Incone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +10%
- KDKY DISASTER RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Employment of the blind and visually impaired
BLIND, Inc. was founded by blind Minnesotans who believe that, given the proper training and opportunity, blind people can lead normal, independent, and fulfilled lives. We believe that blindness is respectable and that with proper…
To empower people with disabilities through employment, services and advocacy.
New vision for independence, inc. (new vision) is a nationally accredited 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization providing rehabilitation, community education, and support services for people with low vision or blindness, and their families to…
Lighthouse for the blind of the palm beaches, inc's mission is to assist persons with visual impairments to develop their capabilities to the fullest and to utilize them in the pursuits of life which are the right and privilege of all.
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 organization's mission is to broadcast the reading of current newspapers and other everyday literature, offering greater independent living to people who are blind, visually impaired or physically handicapped.
Blind early services tn ensures that families are empowered and equipped through specialized programs of support to provide young children who are blind or low vision their absolute best start.
The mission of the florida center for the blind is to foster hope, confidence and independence in individuals with visual impairments; and to educate the community about preventing vision loss.
Provide vision and hearing screening and corrective vision and hearing surgeries to individuals within arizona who economically are unable to afford such services.
To improve occupational opportunity and public perception of legally blind arkansans through community engagement, work skills enhancement and the production of quality goods and services.
Louisiana association for the blind's core mission is to provide stable employment, vocational training, and rehabilitative services, along with employment to individuals who are blind and visually impaired in louisiana.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leader Dogs for the Blind and the most unlike its peers is A Caring Place Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 11 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.
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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · 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 Lions Club International Lexington Lions Club 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.