· Public charity
Lions Club of Clearwater
Promote the community through city improvement projects, supporting youth activities, and by aiding needy individuals and families.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $144,628 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $320,335 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $175,707 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 $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEARWATER FOOD SHELF | $38,450 |
| CITY OF CLEARWATER | $25,800 |
| CLEARWATER HERITAGE FESTIVAL | $15,000 |
| ANGEL REINS STABLE | $13,000 |
| THREE OF A KIND | $11,800 |
| CLEAR LAKE BASEBALL | $11,578 |
| CLEARWATER RIVER CATS | $8,400 |
| ST CLOUD AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $7,800 |
| BECKER SCHOOL DISTRICT | $7,000 |
| BECKER YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION | $5,800 |
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 (FY24–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Lions Club of Clearwater’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 91% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +110% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- CCCLEARWATER CLEAR LAKE FOOD SHELF9× · 2017–2025 · $148k · revenue +110%
- SBSILVER BULLET SADDLE CLUB5× · 2017–2022 · $54k · revenue +125%
- TFTRUE FRIENDS4× · 2021–2024 · $48k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- CFCLEARWATER FIRE DEPT RELIEF ASSOCone grant, 2022 · $27k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $15k
- CDCAN DO CANINESone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -10%
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.
To serve litchfield, the surrounding community, and the usa. to promote the principles and policies set forth by the national and department constitutions of the american legion.
The American Legion was chartered and incorporated by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic veterans organization devoted to mutual helpfulness. It is the nation's largest wartime veterans service organization, committed to mentoring youth and…
To operate a non-profit club for members. all of whom are veterans. 215 served.
To provide social activities and other aid to veterans
To help heal the emotional wounds of military veterans by using the power of the human-animal bond to provide a second chance for shelter animals by rescuing, training and pairing them with america's servicemen and women who could benefit…
Promote Americanism, Law & Order, Comradeship
To provide financial assistance and to provide a place for all veterans, soldiers and their families to gather and meet.(see schedule o)
The American Legion is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization with great political influence perpetuated by its grass-roots involvement in the legislation process from local districts to Capitol Hill. Legionnaires' sense of obligation…
The American Legion's Mission is "For God and Country". To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a 100% Americanism; to preserve the memories and incidents…
To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.
The organization provides services and benefits to united states veterans
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is True Friends and the most unlike its peers is Can Do Canines. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 19 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.
- Who funds CLEARWATER CLEAR LAKE FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds SILVER BULLET SADDLE CLUB ↗
- Who funds TRUE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds 3 OF A KIND ↗
- Who funds ANGEL REINS STABLE ↗
- Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
- Who funds The American Legion ↗
- Who funds POWER TO SAVE A LIFE INC ADVOCATES FOR HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Becker Youth Association ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 323 ↗
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.
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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 of Clearwater 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.
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