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Pasadena Host Lions Club Memorial Trust

The purpose of the charitable trust is to devote and supply the income from the trust fund and principal exclusively for charitable purposes or for the betterment and welfare of children or of handicapped persons, particularly persons handicapped in sight or hearing, either directly or by contributions to organizations duly authorized to…

$64k
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Human Services$73kRecreation & Sports$43kEducation$34kArts & Culture$29kCommunity Improvement$21kHealth$20kYouth Development$18kPhilanthropy$12kOther$0
02FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $36,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $63,815 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $27,315 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.

$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Salvation Army$8,000
Academy of Music 4 the Blind$8,000
Assistance League of Pasadena$7,500
So Cal Beep Baseball Assoc$7,000
Walter Hoving Home$6,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Salvation Army: $26k → 14%MD4 - YOUTH OUTREACH: $5k → 14%US ASSC FOR BLIND ATHLETES: $10k → 9%Salvation Army: $26k → 14%US Assc for Blind Athletes: $7k → 9%SALVATION ARMY: $10k → 14%US ASSC FOR BLIND ATHLETES: $6k → 9%SALVATION ARMY: $10k → 14%Salvation Army: $8k → 14%Multicultural Women Exec Lead: $6k → 14%Assistance League of Pasadena: $8k → 14%Assistance League of Pasadena: $8k → 14%Assistance League of Pasadena: $8k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PASADENA: $8k → 14%So Cal Beep Baseball Assoc: $7k → 14%So Cal Beep Baseball Assoc: $7k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PASADENA: $6k → 14%CITY OF HOPE: $10k → 14%City of Hope: $10k → 14%FLINTRIDGE CENTER: $7k → 14%FIRST TEE OF PASADENA: $7k → 14%Life Skills 4 Pasadena Youth: $6k → 14%Pasadena Police Activities Le: $8k → 14%FIRST TEE OF PASADENA: $6k → 14%Walter Hoving Home: $6k → 14%Life Skills Fore Pasadena You: $5k → 14%Academy of Music 4 the Blind: $8k → 14%ACDMY OF MUSIC FOR THE BLIND: $8k → 14%Academy of Music 4 the Blind: $8k → 14%ACDMY OF MUSIC FOR THE BLIND: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$224k · 7 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$224k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+50%

Still filing today

86%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Recreation & SportsHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

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

  • AL
    Assistance League of Pasadena
    5× · 2018–2023 · $36k · revenue +163%
  • LS
    Life Skills FORE Pasadena YouthInc
    4× · 2019–2022 · $24k · revenue +41%
  • US
    UNITED STATES ASSOCIATION OF BLIND ATHLETES INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $23k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • PP
    Pasadena Police Activities Le
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • FC
    Flintridge Centergraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +50%
  • MW
    Multicultural Women Exec Lead
    one grant, 2021 · $6k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Valley Center for the Blind

To support, train, and employ people who are blind or low vision and increase their opportunities to lead an independent and fulfilling life.

Health
2
Braille Institute of America Inc

To positively transform the lives of those with vision loss. (See Schedule O)

Human Services
3
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

4
California Usbc Association

California USBC Association provides equal opportunity for all in the sport of bowling, promotes the game of American tenpins, and conducts and support bowling competition in the State of California.

Recreation & Sports
5
Glaucoma Institute of Beverly Hills Research Foundation Inc
Health
6
Los Angeles Innocence Project Inc

The purpose is to exonerate the wrongly convicted, uncover and remedy past misuse of evidence in the courtroom, and improve the dialogue among stakeholders in the criminal legal system to prevent future injustice.

Crime & Legal
7
The City of Los Angeles Workforce Development Board

The Workforce Development Board promotes workforce development activitieswhich connect Los Angeles jobseekers and youth to training, workforce preparedness and employment opportunities. Facilitates placing youth into private,public &…

8
Lighthouse for the Blind of Houston Inc

The Lighthouse of Houston provides services that identify and develop the individual strengths and needs of each person with visual disabilities so they may reach their full potential, becoming independent members of society.

Health
9
Ucla Alumni Association

The mission of the ucla alumni association is to enrich the lives of alumni and involve them in the future of ucla.

Education
10
Goodwill Industries of Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties Inc

Provides employment skills to challenged individuals, serves the community by helping people with barriers to employment achieve economic independence through training, educating and employment

Human Services
11
The Antelope Valley Boys and Girls Club

The Antelope Valley Boys and Girls Club mission is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Youth Development
12
Baseball Writers Assoc of America Los Angeles-Anaheim Chapter

We are a local chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA). This Los Angeles-Anaheim chapter was formed in 1958 to help establish professional standards in the press boxes of major league baseball teams. We give…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States Association of Blind Athletes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Life Skills Fore Pasadena YouthInc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Salvation Army — $79,000 · OtherSalvation ArmyUNITED STATES ASSOCIATION OF BLIND ATHLETES INC — $22,500 · OtherUNITED STATES ASSOCIATION OF BLIND ATHLETES INCPasadena Police Activities Le — $7,500 · OtherPasadena Police Activities LeMulticultural Women Exec Lead — $6,000 · OtherLife Skills FORE Pasadena YouthInc — $23,998 · Recreation & SportsLife Skills FORE…SOCAL BEEP BASEBALL ASSOCIATION — $14,000 · Recreation & SportsSOCAL BEEP BASEB…Assistance League of Pasadena — $36,000 · Community ImprovementAssistance Leag…Academy of Music for the Blind — $29,000 · Arts & CultureAcademy of M…CITY OF HOPE — $20,000 · HealthCITY OF HOP…WALTER HOVING HOME INC DBA HOVING HOME — $6,000 · HealthWALTER HOVI…Flintridge Center — $6,833 · PhilanthropyLions Clubs International Foundation — $5,400 · Philanthropy
Other$115,000Recreation & Sports$37,998Community Improvement$36,000Arts & Culture$29,000Health$26,000Philanthropy$12,233

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAssistance League of Pasadena — $36,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetAcademy of Music for the Blind — $29,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetLife Skills FORE Pasadena YouthInc — $23,998 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED STATES ASSOCIATION OF BLIND ATHLETES INC — $22,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCITY OF HOPE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCAL BEEP BASEBALL ASSOCIATION — $14,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetWALTER HOVING HOME INC DBA HOVING HOME — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLions Clubs International Foundation — $5,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

International Association of Lions ClubCA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: International Association of Lions Club · Pasadena Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Pasadena Host Lions Club Memorial Trust 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Pasadena Host Lions Club Memorial Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Pasadena Host Lions Club Memorial Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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