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Milford Lions Club Service Foundation Inc

To promote and assist community welfare through charitable assistance and relief

$84k
Granted FY2021
6
Itemized grants FY2021
6
Organizations funded FY2021
83%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$47k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 6
FY2018 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$2.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 83% of the organizations Milford Lions Club Service Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20216$47k83%
FY20195$27k60%
FY20184$28kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Human Services$26kHealth$25kArts & Culture$19kFood & Nutrition$19kPhilanthropy$10kHousing & Shelter$9kEducation$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Milford Lions Club Service Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mispillion Art League Inc$18,50077%
Church of the Nazarene Inc$12,5002n/a
Bayhealth Medical Center Inc$10,00050%
Milford Lions Club Service Foundation Inc$9,50916%
Milford Housing Development Corp$9,00050%
National Council of the US Society of St Vincent de Paul Inc$8,00050%
The Home of the Brave Foundation$6,50051%
Milford Senior Center Inc$6,00051%
Diocese of Wilmington Society of St Vincent de Paul$6,00010%
People's Place II Inc$5,00010%
State of Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Contro$5,0001n/a
Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition Inc$5,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Milford Lions Club Service Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMispillion Art League Inc: $18,500 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetBayhealth Medical Center Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMilford Lions Club Service Foundation Inc: $9,509 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetMilford Housing Development Corp: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNational Council of the US Society of St Vincent de Paul Inc: $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Home of the Brave Foundation: $6,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMilford Senior Center Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetDiocese of Wilmington Society of St Vincent de Paul: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPeople's Place II Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDelaware Breast Cancer Coalition Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Delaware Community Foundation IncDE19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Del-One Foundation · United Way of Delaware · Crestlea Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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.

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How do I get to Milford Lions Club Service Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Milford Lions Club Service 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.

About Milford Lions Club Service Foundation Inc

How much does Milford Lions Club Service Foundation Inc give?
Milford Lions Club Service Foundation Inc reported 6 itemized grants totaling $46,500, out of $84,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2021.
What does Milford Lions Club Service Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2021, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Health (23%), Arts & Culture (17%).
Who are Milford Lions Club Service Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2021: Mispillion Art League Inc ($19k), Church of the Nazarene Inc ($13k), Bayhealth Medical Center Inc ($10k).
Does Milford Lions Club Service Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Milford Lions Club Service Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delaware Community Foundation Inc, The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc, Longwood Foundation Inc.
Where is Milford Lions Club Service Foundation Inc based?
Milford Lions Club Service Foundation Inc is based in DE.

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 13 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $144k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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