· Public charity
Lions International Shakopee
Civic/Social Service
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 7 grants below total $87,112 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $253,767 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $166,655 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 $10k5 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Shakopee Lions Foundation | $44,630 |
| Humanity Alliance | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,221 |
| CAP Agency | $7,461 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Park Nicillet Foundation | $5,500 |
| Shakopee Crime Prevention | $5,300 |
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 (FY22–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- SLSHAKOPEE LIONS FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $144k
- COCity of Shakopee3× · 2017–2021 · $90k
- LILIONS INTERNATIONAL SHAKOPEE4× · 2017–2022 · $24k · revenue -22%
Funded once
- LCLions Clubs International Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +32%
- JTJackson Townshipone grant, 2021 · $13k
- AMALLOS MINISTRIESone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
Raise funds for handicap people to participate in sports activities
Promote vision health and disease prevention
Sight conservation
The Mille Lacs Smallmouth Alliance is a charitable non-profit organization dedicated to rebuilding, preserving and maintaining Mille Lacs Lake as a world class trophy smallmouth bass fishery. Our work will include: educating fishermen,…
A member service organization operating within the principles of rotary and Rotary International
Non-profit community service group.
The organization is an administrative unit of lions club international, and services clubs in minnesota, manitoba, and northwestern ontario.
Vision screening in local school. Provide eye exams and glasses for needy individuals. Support of organizations that help vision impaired, hearing impaired, disabled and needy individuals. Volunteer for events sponsored by community…
Monitor state medical legislation and provide input to state legislators regarding issues affecting the role and practice of the athletic trainer
Helping those less fortunate
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lions Clubs International Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis Society. 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 24 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 SHAKOPEE LIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIONS INTERNATIONAL SHAKOPEE ↗
- Who funds The Humanity Alliance ↗
- Who funds Lions Clubs International Foundation ↗
- Who funds SCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LIONS VISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKOPEE YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VALLEY ALLIANCE ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · 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 International Shakopee 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.