· Public charity
Lions of Virginia Foundation Inc
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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 6 grants below total $76,128 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $332,343 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $256,215 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 · $13k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RAPPAHANNOCK EDUCATION FARM | $30,600 |
| SERVE | $12,228 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| SIGNS OF FUN | $8,000 |
| TRIPLE R RANCH | $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 (FY17–25, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 94% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Lions of Virginia Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
- NVNorthern Virgnia Lions Youth Camp Inc2× · 2019–2022 · $290k · revenue -82% · 59% of their budget
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC3× · 2022–2024 · $31k · revenue +19%- EEMPOWERHOUSE2× · 2021–2023 · $28k · revenue -2%
Funded once
- TOTOWN OF FARMVILLEone grant, 2019 · $65k
- LOLions of Central Virginia MHU Incone grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue -47%
- IAINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBSone grant, 2022 · $38k
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.
Leading the effort to eliminate hunger in our community.
Distribution of food to qualified low-income residents of Prince Edward County, VA
To nourish community and feed hungry neighbors by growing and sharing food in Floyd County, Virginia.
Providing food for those in need.
It is our mission to provide food, clothing, household cleaning supplies, and personal hygiene products to low income seniors, veterans, homeless, children, and families.
Northern virginia food rescue is responding to the disconnect between wasting 40% of our food while 1 in 6 go hungry. northern virginia food rescue aims to address the disconnect in distribution-in supply and access-by rescuing food about…
The FVEFP is a faith-based organization whose mission is to help as many families as possible to ensure they are not handicapped by hunger.
Provide meals to homebound persons who, due to age, illness, or other distress, are confined and unable to secure sustenance themselves.
Food assistance to the hungry.
To provide food to the needy residents of Dickenson County Virginia
The Henry County Food Pantry Provides Nutritious Food and Essential Support to Families in need.
The organization's purpose is to provide meals to the ederly, disabled, and homebound in fluvanna county, virginia.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for Others Inc and the most unlike its peers is Signs of Fun. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 55 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 Northern Virgnia Lions Youth Camp Inc ↗
- Who funds Lions of Central Virginia MHU Inc ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds RAPPAHANNOCK EDUCATION FARM ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERHOUSE ↗
- Who funds Carilion Clinic ↗
- Who funds POWHATAN VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds Lions of Massanutten Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Arlington Food Assistance Center ↗
- Who funds FAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MANASSAS HOST LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SERVE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Bristol Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Senior Citizens of Prince Edward CountyMeals on Wheels ↗
- Who funds SIGNS OF FUN ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS ↗
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: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of the Rappahannock River Region Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organization Lions of Virginia Foundation Inc 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.