· Public charity
Lions Club of Clearwater
Promote the community through city improvement projects, supporting youth activities, and by aiding needy individuals and families.
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 $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Lions Club of Clearwater’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 91%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +110% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 19 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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lions Club of Clearwater funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lions Club of Clearwater. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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