North Dakota · 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.
- $278k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $210k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $502k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Magic City Lions Club funded were first-time grantees, receiving 91% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $180k | 73% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $134k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $70k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $36k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $28k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $15k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $13k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norsk Hostfest Association | $202,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Minot Commission on Aging Inc | $31,744 | 2 | 1% |
| Service Dog of America | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Minot Zoological Society | $27,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Lions Clubs International Foundation | $18,023 | 1 | 0% |
| Minot Fireworks Association Inc | $17,222 | 1 | 32% |
| Minot Area Council of the Arts | $17,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Midwest Shrine Association | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Trinity Health | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Surise Rotary | $10,578 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norsk Hostfest Association | $202,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Minot Commission on Aging Inc | $31,744 | 2 | 1% |
| Service Dog of America | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Minot Zoological Society | $27,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Lions Clubs International Foundation | $18,023 | 1 | 0% |
| Minot Fireworks Association Inc | $17,222 | 1 | 32% |
| Minot Area Council of the Arts | $17,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Midwest Shrine Association | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Trinity Health | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Surise Rotary | $10,578 | 2 | n/a |
| Sawyer School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Patrons of the Minot Public Library | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Downtown Business and Professional Association | $10,000 | 1 | 26% |
| Companions for Children | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Trinity Health | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Local Motives | $7,500 | 1 | 7% |
| Foundation for Orthodoxy Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Minot State University | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nd Rural Races | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Children's Museum of Minot Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Desour Valley Edc Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Lillian and Coleman Taube Museum of Art | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Tioga Lions Club | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Magic City Lions Club supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Magic City Lions Club
- How much does Magic City Lions Club give?
- Magic City Lions Club reported 12 itemized grants totaling $210,277, out of $278,396 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Magic City Lions Club fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (42%), Arts & Culture (13%), Education (12%).
- Who are Magic City Lions Club's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Norsk Hostfest Association ($202k), Minot Commission on Aging Inc ($32k), Service Dog of America ($30k).
- Does Magic City Lions Club fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Magic City Lions Club?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Minot Community Foundation, North Dakota Community Foundation, Minot Junior Golf Association Inc.
- Where is Magic City Lions Club based?
- Magic City Lions Club is based in ND.
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