· 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 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.
How this is measured
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 |
| STEP BY STEP | $10,000 |
| UNSHACKLED BY LOVE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| ENVISION BLIND SPORTS | $10,000 |
| A CARING PLACE | $8,000 |
| KENTUCKY LIONS EYE FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
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 (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 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: 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
How this is measured
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
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.
Employment of the blind and visually impaired
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To empower people with disabilities through employment, services and advocacy.
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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.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 11 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.
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.
Open a dossier: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lions Club International Lexington Lions Club Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lions Club International Lexington Lions Club Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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