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· Private foundation
LIONS CLUB OF NORFOLK FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$38k
Granted FY2017
29
Grants
8
Communities
$7k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 29 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$750
Median grant
8
States reached
$758k
Total assets
Largest grants
- SCHOOL HEALTH CORPORATION$7,086
- LIONS CHARITY FOUNDATION OF 24D$6,500
- CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL KINGS DAUGHTERS$2,500
- TRAYLOR OPTICAL CO$2,500
- LIONS CLUB INTERNATIONAL FD$2,000
- FORKIDS INC$2,000
- UNIONS MISSION$2,000
- EDMARC HOSPICE FOR CHILDREN$1,500
- AMERICAN RED CROSS$1,000
- HOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION$1,000
- NARO EXPANDED VIDEO ARCHIVAL LIB$1,000
- LIONS MOBILE SIGHT HEARING UNIT$1,000
- LIONS CHARITY FOUNDATION OF 24D$850
- LIONS MEDICAL EYE BANK$750
- BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$750
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
1
The Lighthouse for the Blind in
To empower people with disabilities through employment, services and advocacy.
Health
2
Florida Lions Foundation for the Blind
Human Services
3
Lighthouse for the Blind of the Palm Beaches Inc
Lighthouse for the blind of the palm beaches, inc's mission is to assist persons with visual impairments to develop their capabilities to the fullest and to utilize them in the pursuits of life which are the right and privilege of all.
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4
Leader Dogs for the Blind Foundation
To prudently manage and invest funds in a manner that will ensure the long-term sustainability of leader dogs for the blind in accordance with the policies of the foundation.
Human Services
5
Lighthouse Works Inc
Provide career opportunities and job training to blind or visually impaired americans.
Human Services
6
Lighthouse for the Visually Impaired
The mission of the lighthouse is to educate, empower and employ residents of pasco, hernando and citrus, fl counties who are visually impaired and blind.
Human Services
7
The Arkansas Lighthouse
To train, employ and serve visually-impaired individuals.
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8
Lions Industries for the Blind Inc
Employment of the blind and visually impaired
Employment
9
Lions Charity Foundation of
Sight and hearing prevention for residents of southeastern virginia and grants to organizations to further those goals.
Community Improvement
10
Lighthouse for the Blind of Houston Inc
Assist people who are blind and visually impaired in becoming independent members of society.
Health
11
Sightsavers Inc
Prevent and cure blindness.
Health
12
Visability
The mission of visability is to change the lives of persons with vision loss and other disabilities by fostering independence and individual choice.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lighthouse for the Blind and the most unlike its peers is Slover Library Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$31,936Housing & Shelter$2,000Community Improvement$1,500Human Services$1,250Education$500Environment$500
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 HOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds NORFOLK SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIONS OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SLOVER LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WETLANDS WATCH ↗
- Who funds LEE'S FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH RIVER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
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.
Hampton Roads Community FoundationVA20.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Lions Club of Norfolk Foundation · Sentara Health · The Landmark Foundation · The Blocker Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organisation 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.
2025
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WETLANDS WATCH.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.2× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 542005763 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on WETLANDS WATCH, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to Lions Club of Norfolk Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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