· Public charity
Magic City Lions Club
To create and foster a spirit of understanding among all people for humanitarian needs by providing voluntary services through community involvement and international cooperation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $210,277 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $278,396 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $68,119 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 $10k7 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $67k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORSK HOSTFEST | $100,000 |
| MINOT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| MINOT FIREWORKS ASSOCIATION | $17,222 |
| MINOT DOWNTOWN BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| MINOT SHRINE CLUB | $10,000 |
| TRINITY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| LOCAL MOTIVES | $7,500 |
| FOUNDATION FOR ORTHODOXY | $6,000 |
| SURISE ROTARY | $5,555 |
| MSU SUMMER THEATER | $5,000 |
| TIOGA LIONS CLUB | $5,000 |
| ND RURAL RACES | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 95% of your 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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 8 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- NHNORSK HOSTFEST ASSOCIATION2× · 2024–2025 · $202k · revenue -67%
- MCMINOT COMMISSION ON AGING INC2× · 2022–2024 · $32k · revenue +30%
- GMGREATER MINOT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY2× · 2019–2020 · $28k · revenue -45%
Funded once
- SDSERVICE DOG OF AMERICAone grant, 2023 · $30k
- LCLions Clubs International Foundationone grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue +18%
- THTRINITY HEALTHone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +0%
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.
Provide assistance to low income individuals through the community action self sufficiency programs and energy conservation assistance through the agency's weatherization program.
To advocate for and invest in business activity by being a collaborative partner in the community, focused on improving quality of life for all.
Promoting, developing, and advancing support for the city of minot park district
To enhance the quality of life for adults with developmental disabilities by providing social, educational, and recreational activities.
To advocate, coordinate, and optimize services for homeless persons
To present people with the opportunity to experience symphony.
To promote the community to utilize the local merchants and provide economic development for the future.
Men's homeless shelter during winter months.
To promote business development and tourism in winona minnesota and the surrounding area
Support and improve public well-being
To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits
The dickinson area chamber of commerce will provide leadership to promote a progressive business environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minot Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Minot Fireworks Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 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 NORSK HOSTFEST ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MINOT COMMISSION ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds MINOT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER MINOT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Lions Clubs International Foundation ↗
- Who funds Minot Fireworks Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MINOT AREA COUNCIL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PATRONS OF THE MINOT PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds COMPANIONS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds LOCAL MOTIVES ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ORTHODOXY INC ↗
- Who funds DESOUR VALLEY EDC INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MINOT INC ↗
- Who funds Lillian and Coleman Taube Museum of Art ↗
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: Minot Community Foundation · North Dakota Community Foundation · Minot Junior Golf Association Inc · Inspiritus Community Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Minot Area Council of the Arts · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Magic City Lions Club 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.