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Miami Lions Club Foundation Inc at a glance

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Miami Lions Club Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$47k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$259kEducation$27kAnimals$12kFood & Nutrition$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kHuman Services$3kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$747k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Miami Lighthouse for the Blind$26,750
St Thomas University$15,000
Hearing Research Institute$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Southeastern Guide Dogs: $10k → 10%Florida Lions Foundation: $1k → 12%Florida Lions Foundation: $1k → 12%Florida Lions Foundation: $1k → 12%Miami Lighthouse for the Blind: $27k → 15%Miami Lighthouse for the Blind: $26k → 15%Miami Lighthouse for the Blind: $25k → 15%Miami Lighthouse for the Blind: $25k → 15%Miami Lighthouse for the Blind: $25k → 15%Miami Lighthouse for the Blind: $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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$275k · 9 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
17

Total granted

$275k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+48%

Still filing today

44%
12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthOther
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

  • ML
    MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue -25%
  • LF
    Lions for the Blind Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $88k
  • ST
    ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $19k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • SG
    Southeastern Guide Dogs Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +48%
  • FD
    Florida Division of Blind Services
    one grant, 2019 · $7k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
3/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Lions for the Blind Inc: $87,950 · OtherLions for the Blind IncST THOMAS UNIVERSITY INC: $18,500 · OtherST THOMAS UNIVERSITY INCFLA Lions Conklin Center: $16,000 · OtherFLA Lions Conklin CenterHearing Research Institute: $7,000 · OtherFlorida Division of Blind Services: $7,000 · Other+17 more: $27,830 · Other+17 moreMIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $134,750 · Human ServicesMIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED …Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc+1 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesFLORIDA LIONS EYE BANK INC: $1,000 · Health
Other$164,280Human Services$147,750Health$1,000

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 budgetMIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $134,750 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetST THOMAS UNIVERSITY INC: $18,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA LIONS FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $3,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFLORIDA LIONS EYE BANK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARING RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 2y, 1.4% 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.

  • Who funds MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
  • Who funds ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA LIONS FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA LIONS EYE BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARING RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Florida Lions Eye Bank Inc: 3% of income from government
  • St Thomas University Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
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How do I get to Miami Lions Club Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Miami Lions Club Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 26 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-PF 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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