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Lions of Virginia Foundation Inc

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$332k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$476kHealth$157kFood & Nutrition$153kPublic Safety & Disaster$83kHuman Services$58kEducation$48kYouth Development$24kPublic Benefit$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $76,128, the rows itemized in this filing. The $332,343 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $256,215 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $63k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SIGNS OF FUN: $8k → 15%GOOD SAMARITAN FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 18%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $12k → 15%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $7k → 6%EMPOWERHOUSE: $22k → 8%LIONS OF MASSANUTTEN FOUNDATION INC: $17k → 11%FAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT: $15k → 15%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $12k → 15%EMPOWERHOUSE: $6k → 8%MEALS ON WHEELS PRINCE EDWARD COUNT: $10k → 15%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $7k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Lions of Virginia Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 88%.

Lions of Virginia Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$361k · 4 repeat orgs$714k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
45

Total granted

$361k
$638k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
-1%

Still filing today

100%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NV
    Northern Virgnia Lions Youth Camp Inc
    2× · 2019–2022 · $290k · revenue -82% · 59% of their budget
  • BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $31k · revenue +19%
  • E
    EMPOWERHOUSE
    2× · 2021–2023 · $28k · revenue -2%

Funded once

  • TO
    TOWN OF FARMVILLE
    one grant, 2019 · $65k
  • LO
    Lions of Central Virginia MHU Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue -47%
  • IA
    INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
    one grant, 2022 · $38k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia

Leading the effort to eliminate hunger in our community.

Food & Nutrition
2
Farmville Area Community Emergency Services Inc

Distribution of food to qualified low-income residents of Prince Edward County, VA

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3
Plenty Inc

To nourish community and feed hungry neighbors by growing and sharing food in Floyd County, Virginia.

Food & Nutrition
4
Fairview Food Bank

Providing food for those in need.

Food & Nutrition
5
Feed My Sheep Food Outreach Inc

It is our mission to provide food, clothing, household cleaning supplies, and personal hygiene products to low income seniors, veterans, homeless, children, and families.

Food & Nutrition
6
Northern Virginia Food Rescue

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…

Food & Nutrition
7
Fuquay Varina Emergency Food Pantry

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.

Food & Nutrition
8
Meals On Wheels of Arlington Virginia Inc

Provide meals to homebound persons who, due to age, illness, or other distress, are confined and unable to secure sustenance themselves.

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9
Stevensville Pantry Partners Food Bank

Food assistance to the hungry.

Food & Nutrition
10
Lunchbox 276

Our mission to alleviate childhood hunger by providing mutritous weekend food bags to students experiencing food insecurity. we strive to ensure that every child in our community has the nourishment they need to thrive, learn and grow…

Food & Nutrition
11
Fluvanna Meals On Wheels

The organization's purpose is to provide meals to the ederly, disabled, and homebound in fluvanna county, virginia.

Food & Nutrition
12
Dickenson County Food Bank

To provide food to the needy residents of Dickenson County Virginia

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for Others Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
7/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Northern Virgnia Lions Youth Camp Inc: $290,000 · OtherNorthern Virgnia Lions Youth Camp IncTOWN OF FARMVILLE: $65,000 · OtherTOWN OF FARMVILLEINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS: $38,324 · OtherCHARLOTTE LIONS CLUB: $30,500 · OtherNORTHERN VIRGINIA LIONS YOUTH: $27,500 · Other+34 more: $312,181 · Other+34 moreBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $31,000 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN …EMPOWERHOUSE: $27,700 · Human ServicesEMPOWERHOUSELions of Massanutten Foundation Inc: $16,556 · Human ServicesLions of Mass…FAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT: $15,000 · Human ServicesFAIRY GODMOTH…GOOD SAMARITAN FOOD PANTRY: $10,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITA…Senior Citizens of Prince Edward CountyMeals on Wheels: $10,000 · Human ServicesSenior Citize…SIGNS OF FUN: $8,000 · Human ServicesSIGNS OF FUNFOOD FOR OTHERS INC: $7,070 · Human ServicesFOOD FOR OTHE…Lions of Central Virginia MHU Inc: $60,000 · HealthLions of Ce…Carilion Clinic: $27,150 · HealthCarilion Cl…POWHATAN VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC: $22,135 · HealthPOWHATAN VO…RAPPAHANNOCK EDUCATION FARM: $30,600 · Food & NutritionArlington Food Assistance Center: $16,000 · Food & NutritionMANASSAS HOST LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION: $13,200 · PhilanthropyFamily Promise of Bristol Inc: $10,280 · Housing & ShelterVIRGINIA BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARY: $6,600 · Education
Other$763,505Human Services$125,326Health$109,285Food & Nutrition$46,600Philanthropy$13,200Housing & Shelter$10,280Education$6,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthern Virgnia Lions Youth Camp Inc: $290,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $31,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRAPPAHANNOCK EDUCATION FARM: $30,600 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetEMPOWERHOUSE: $27,700 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCarilion Clinic: $27,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOWHATAN VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC: $22,135 over 1y, 22% of budgetLions of Massanutten Foundation Inc: $16,556 over 1y, 40% of budgetArlington Food Assistance Center: $16,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT: $15,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSERVE INC: $12,228 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Promise of Bristol Inc: $10,280 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN FOOD PANTRY: $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetSenior Citizens of Prince Edward CountyMeals on Wheels: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSIGNS OF FUN: $8,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetFOOD FOR OTHERS INC: $7,070 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS: $6,985 over 1y, 15% of budgetVIRGINIA BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARY: $6,600 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE NORTH FORK OF THE SHENANDOAH RIVER INC: $6,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetOUTREACH INC: $5,380 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Dominion Energy Chari…Community Foundation …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Dominion Energy Charitable FoundationVA13.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lions of Virginia Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lions of Virginia Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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