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Lions Club of Norfolk Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORKIDS INC | $10,000 |
| UNION MISSION | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF SE VIRGINIA | $8,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| URBAN RENEWAL CENTER | $2,000 |
| EDMARC HOSPICE FOR CHILDREN | $1,500 |
| FRIENDS OF LAMBERT'S POINT PARK | $1,500 |
| OPERATION BLESSING | $1,000 |
| LIONS MEDICAL EYE BANK OF | $1,000 |
| NEW VISION YOUTH SERVICES | $1,000 |
| ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $1,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
| LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $750 |
| YMCA | $500 |
| LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
32 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- FIFORKIDS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $59k · revenue +6%
- TUTHE UNION MISSION6× · 2020–2025 · $56k · revenue +26%
- FOFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA6× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- GAGHENT AREA MINSTRYone grant, 2020 · $4k
- LCLIONS CLUB INTERNATIONALone grant, 2020 · $1k
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL KINGS DAUGHTERSone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
Housingforward virginia helps community leaders take action to solve their housing challenges. as a trusted partner and innovator, we use evidence- based solutions to build a future where everyone has a safe, stable home they can afford.
Access partnership facilitates the connection between those with health care needs and available resources. vision is that all residents of hampton roads can obtain the health care that they need to achieve personal wellness. focus is…
Our mission: we advance educational equity by building long-term partnerships with students, families, communities, and schools to create experiences outside of school that inspire the joy of learning.
The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.
Visions is a 98-year-old nonprofit vision rehabilitation and social service organization that trains low income people of all ages experiencing blindness and severe vision loss to lead independent and active lives at work, in their homes…
Tracing its roots to the 1980s, the virginia housing alliance (vha) is the statewide leader in expanding housing opportunities, strengthening the capacity of affordable housing and homelessness service organizations, and advancing…
The virginia institute of autism is dedicated to helping people overcome the challenges of autism through innovative, evidence-based programs in education, outreach and adult services.
Collaborating with our members and stakeholders, vhha works to ensure the sustainability of virginia's health care system and improve the health of all virginians.
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope House Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Virginia Lions Eyeglass Recycling Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
18 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. 18 of the 40 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 FORKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION MISSION ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN RENEWAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDMARC INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds PRIMEPLUS SENIOR CENTERS ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA CHILDRENS CHORUS ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA LIONS EYEGLASS RECYCLING INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds WETLANDS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds LIONS OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENDEPENDENCE CENTER INC ↗
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: United Way of South Hampton Roads · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · The Blocker Foundation · Sentara Health · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Lions Club of Norfolk Foundation · Wards Corner Lions Club Charity Foundation Inc · Kiwanis Club of Norfolk Foundation Inc · The Landmark Foundation · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Norfolk Foundation 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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