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Lions Club of Chaska at a glance

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Lions Club of Chaska

Service to others.

$466k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$109k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$378kPublic Safety & Disaster$338kEducation$246kFood & Nutrition$186kHousing & Shelter$179kReligion$153kHealth$97kPublic Benefit$71kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $341,625, the rows itemized in this filing. The $466,478 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $124,853 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $194k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $109k
$11,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$229k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
City of Chaska$109,365
Chaska River City Days$38,650
Chaska Baseball Assoc$27,380
Bountiful BasketChaska$25,835
Moravian Care Foundation$15,000
Individual grant recipient$14,000
Flags and honor of Minnesota$11,000
Humanity Alliance$11,000
St Johns Lutheran Church$11,000
Birdie Bash$10,000
2BContinued$10,000
Love Inc$10,000
Marias Voice$10,000
Southwest Metro Edu Coop-#288$8,395
Individual grant recipient$8,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%oneloveyoga: $13k → 5%Bountiful BasketChaska: $30k → 5%Bountiful BasketChaska: $26k → 5%Bountiful BasketChaska: $15k → 5%Bountiful BasketChaska: $8k → 5%Bountiful BasketChaska: $8k → 5%Bountiful BasketChaska: $8k → 5%Beyond New Beginnings: $7k → 5%Bountiful BasketChaska: $7k → 5%Bountiful BasketChaska: $7k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 26 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
15

Total granted

$1.7M
$148k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
0%

Still filing today

58%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationReligionRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HB
    HAWKS BOOSTER CLUB INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $171k · revenue +54%
  • CL
    CHASKA LIONS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2024 · $109k · revenue +978% · 87% of their budget
  • SC
    SCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • CR
    CHASKA ROTARY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -85%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $19k
  • O
    ONELOVEYOGA
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Care in Action Minnesota

Our mission is to enhance the quality of life of children who have experienced abuse or neglect, strengthen families and prevent childhood maltreatment, by providing timely crucial support that meets the basic needs of local families and…

Human Services
2
Minnesota Bridge to Freedom
Health
3
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
4
Chinese Community Center
Community Improvement
5
Southwest Minnesota Pride
Civil Rights
6
Minnesota Acts Now

Crime and communities violence interve

Crime & Legal
7
Minnesota Valley Lutheran High School Foundation Inc
Education
8
Mn Fighting Lions

Raise funds for handicap people to participate in sports activities

Recreation & Sports
9
Casa Minnesota

Casa minnesota's mission is to support and promote court-appointed volunteers who advocate for abused and neglected children in minnesota, and to enrich the lives of children in foster care.

—
10
Society of St Vincent De Paul Crookston District Council

To help people in financial poverty with assistance for housing utilities food insecurity and misc.

Human Services
11
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
12
Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors Foundation Inc
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 2B Continued; the most unlike its peers is The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 41 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/25
Grantees still filing
14/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

City of Chaska: $338,408 · OtherCity of ChaskaHAWKS BOOSTER CLUB INC: $170,550 · OtherHAWKS BOOSTER CLUB INCIndividual grant recipient: $39,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $39,000 · OtherSAINT JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCH: $36,947 · OtherSOUTHWEST METRO EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE: $36,895 · OtherLaunch Ministry: $58,500 · OtherLaunch MinistryMS MAIN EVENT: $40,000 · OtherThe Humanity Alliance: $41,000 · OtherEVERY MEAL: $36,549 · Other+18 more: $236,460 · Other+18 moreCHASKA RIVER CITY DAYS: $112,075 · Recreation & SportsCHASKA RIVE…CHASKA BASEBALL ASSOCIATION: $73,600 · Recreation & SportsCHASKA BASE…CHASKA LIONS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $108,500 · EducationCHASKA LI…CHASKA ROTARY FOUNDATION INC: $24,800 · EducationCHASKA RO…MARIA PEW FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA MARIA'S VOICE: $23,000 · EducationMARIA PEW…MORAVIAN CARE MINISTRIES: $94,500 · ReligionMORAVIAN …LOVE INC OF EASTERN CARVER COUNTY: $58,500 · ReligionLOVE INC …SCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC: $108,335 · Human ServicesONELOVEYOGA: $13,000 · Human ServicesBeyond New Beginnings: $7,000 · Human ServicesHIS HOUSE FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY ASSET FOUNDATION: $16,000 · Housing & ShelterFLAGS AND HONOR OF MINNESOTA: $70,750 · Public Benefit
Other$1,073,909Recreation & Sports$185,675Education$156,300Religion$153,000Human Services$128,335Housing & Shelter$76,000Public Benefit$70,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHAWKS BOOSTER CLUB INC: $170,550 over 6y, 22% of budgetCHASKA RIVER CITY DAYS: $112,075 over 8y, 28% of budgetCHASKA LIONS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $108,500 over 4y, 87% of budgetSCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC: $108,335 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMORAVIAN CARE MINISTRIES: $94,500 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetCHASKA BASEBALL ASSOCIATION: $73,600 over 3y, 12% of budgetFLAGS AND HONOR OF MINNESOTA: $70,750 over 7y, 42% of budgetHIS HOUSE FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetLaunch Ministry: $58,500 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetLOVE INC OF EASTERN CARVER COUNTY: $58,500 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetThe Humanity Alliance: $41,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetMS MAIN EVENT: $40,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetEVERY MEAL: $36,549 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN VALLEY ALLIANCE: $31,700 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMARIA PEW FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA MARIA'S VOICE: $23,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budget2B CONTINUED: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSET FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetONELOVEYOGA: $13,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeyond New Beginnings: $7,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCHASKA COMMUNITY HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSEXUAL VIOLENCE CENTER: $5,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFIVE STARS RECOVERY CENTER: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 HAWKS BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds CHASKA RIVER CITY DAYS ↗
  • Who funds CHASKA LIONS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds MORAVIAN CARE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds CHASKA BASEBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds FLAGS AND HONOR OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds HIS HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Launch Ministry ↗
  • Who funds LOVE INC OF EASTERN CARVER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds The Humanity Alliance ↗
  • Who funds MS MAIN EVENT ↗
  • Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN VALLEY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds CHASKA ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MARIA PEW FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA MARIA'S VOICE ↗
  • Who funds 2B CONTINUED ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ASSET FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ONELOVEYOGA ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds MD5M LIONS KIDSIGHT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Beyond New Beginnings ↗
  • Who funds CHASKA COMMUNITY HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SEXUAL VIOLENCE CENTER ↗

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.

Allina Health SystemOtto Bremer TrustThe Minneapolis Found…The Richard M Schulze…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Edina Realty Foundati…Greater Twin Cities U…CommunitygivingNatl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Allina Health SystemMN19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Allina Health System · Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Communitygiving · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lions Club of Chaska funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lions Club of Chaska. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Lions Club of Chaska?

    Find your warmest path to Lions Club of Chaska through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 41 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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