· Public charity
Lions Club of Fridley Minnesota
The club was organized to help establish community welfare programs, provide aid to the blind, & support the united nations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $340,710 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $354,733 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,023 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–50k13 grants · $201k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIDLEY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $125,140 |
| ANGEL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FRIDLEY EDUCATION FOUND | $25,000 |
| FRIDLEY 49ERS DAY FESTIVAL INC | $21,500 |
| EVERY MEAL SCHOOL PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| ALEXANDRA HOUSE | $17,500 |
| OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA | $15,000 |
| CARS FOR NEIGHBORS | $12,500 |
| THE FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA | $12,000 |
| FRIDLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $12,000 |
| VICTORY RIDERS INC | $10,000 |
| FBI MLPS CITIZENS ACADEMY ALUMNI | $10,000 |
| SACA FOOD SHELF & THIFT STORE | $10,000 |
| ANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATINOAL FOUNDATI | $10,000 |
| MN LAW ENFORCEMENT EXPLORER ASSOCIA | $8,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 0 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
- EMEVERY MEAL2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +15%
- AHALEXANDRA HOUSE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $33k · revenue +17%
- OAOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- NSNORTH SUBURBAN CENTER FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2024 · $21k · revenue +80%
- LCLEE CARLSON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH & WELL-BEINGone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- FPFridley Public Schoolsone grant, 2024 · $8k
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.
Provide emergency food relief for the families in the Lonsdale MN region .
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…
Partners for Affordable Housing is missioned to provide shelter for homeless families and individuals and help them secure economically viable long term housing. The Organization owns and operates a number of scattered site housing…
Mediation and Restorative services mission is to provide accessible, affordable mediation and restorative practice to underserved populations, to provide them with the tools to help them resolve their own conflicts, repair harms and…
End hunger together in NE Minnesota and NW Wisconsin.
To reshape the minnesota hunger relief system so that all food shelf shoppers (clients) are provided with predictable, healthy food options in a dignified and welcoming environment.
The Humanity Alliance is a Minnesota-based 501(c)(3) non-profit that aspires to create long-lasting community value. Our initial focus is on providing improved access to nutrition for those who are food insecure... restoring love and…
MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.
Assisting families in shelters to gain more confidence in building future goals that will lead to success of the entire family.
Family Promise in Anoka County (FPAC) empowers families experiencing housing insecurity to build a foundation of lasting independence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cars for Neighbors Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Fridley Educations Found Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 20 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 Fridley Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FRIDLEY EDUCATIONS FOUND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
- Who funds Southern Anoka Community Assistance ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds CARS FOR NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE ↗
- Who funds NORTH SUBURBAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LAW ENFORCEMENT EXPLORER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Fridley Historical Society ↗
- Who funds LEE CARLSON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH & WELL-BEING ↗
- Who funds VICTORY RIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds ANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HOPE 4 Youth ↗
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: Spring Lake Park Lions Club · Allina Health System · Walter C Rasmussen - Northeast Bank Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Connexus Energy Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · The Graco Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 of Fridley Minnesota 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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