· Public charity
Maple Grove Lions Club
To support the community of maple grove and surrounding communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $47,707 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $196,187 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $148,480 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROSS FOOD SHELF | $30,000 |
| SCHOOL DIST 279 | $9,050 |
| CITY OF MAPLE GROVE | $8,657 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +189% since the first grant, against +81% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- C(CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES)6× · 2017–2024 · $183k · revenue +189%
- MVMAGNUS VETERANS FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $35k · revenue +63%
- D2DISTRICT 279 FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $34k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- MGMAPLE GROVE BEYOND THE YELLOW RIBBONone grant, 2019 · $28k
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue -19%
- LKLIONS KIDSIGHT USA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue -42%
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.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Charitable giving focused on supporting key Lions focus areas of Vision, Hearing, Youth, Veterans, Disaster Relief, Humanitarian Needs, Hunger, Childhood Cancer, Diabetes, and the Environment.
The mission of Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Scout Law.
Mava advances the power of volunteerism to deepen community impact through uplifting community voice, building connections, providing education, and promoting advocacy.
The organization was founded for the purpose of conducting and advancing research and therapy in the field of ear health and communication disorders.
In addition to the mission statement noted on Page 1, Part 1, MCCS is an organization independent of but recognized by the Boy Scouts of America, Girl Scouts USA, Trail Life USA, and American Heritage Girls programs. Our Servant Leadership…
The minnesota state bar foundation mobilizes legal community philanthropy to achieve access to justice for all minnesotans.
To support and inspire actions to end bullying, cyberbullying and suicide
To inform and educate the public about forest industries practices in minnesota.
To represent victim/survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.
It is the mission of the boy scouts of america to prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetime by instilling in them the values of the scout law and oath.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is District 279 Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mobile Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 12 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 CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES) ↗
- Who funds MAGNUS VETERANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT 279 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAPLE GROVE LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LIONS KIDSIGHT USA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARIA PEW FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA MARIA'S VOICE ↗
- Who funds Mobile Hope ↗
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.
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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 Maple Grove 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.