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Powhatan Lions Club Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Powhatan Christmas Mother | $10,287 |
| Powhatan High School | $4,000 |
| Nilsen Eye Care | $2,800 |
| BURKEVILLE LODGE FOR THE BLIND | $2,500 |
| CENTRAL VA LIONS HEARING AID BANK | $2,500 |
| Virginia Eye Institute Foundation | $2,300 |
| Powhatan Volunteer Rescue Squad | $2,000 |
| Blessed Sacrament Huguenot School | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Powhatan County Fire Association | $1,500 |
| Powhatan Y | $1,500 |
| VA School for Deaf & Blind Foundation | $1,100 |
| Backpacks of Love | $1,000 |
| LIONS INTL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Virginia Voice | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 71% of those 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.
32 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- PCPOWHATAN CHRISTMAS MOTHER6× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +127%
- PVPOWHATAN VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +62%
- PCPOWHATAN COUNTY FIRE ASSOCIATION6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
The foundation is dedicated to the improvement of eye care and the prevention of blindness. the foundation conducts and promotes basic laboratory research and training to individuals engaged in a career in the visual sciences. clinical…
Advocate for the best quality eye care through education, legislative efforts and community service. The members are committed to heightening public awareness that eye disease and blindness can be reduced through prevention, and early…
The organization's primary purpose is to hold title to property, collect income from that property, and turn over the net income to Conexus.
Support indigent eye clinic which provides medical eye services, surgical eye services, and prescriptions for glasses. Fund low vision centers. Provide educational grants to the visually handicapped. Support related existing educational…
Financial assistance for emergency veterinary care.
Servants For Sight's mission is to help disadvantaged people, in South Carolina and in third world countries, get the eye care they need to lead productive lives. We provide eye exams, eyeglasses and surgery to poverty stricken and…
To eliminate treatable blindness through the training of eye care professionals and development of eye care infrastructure.
Building a healthier community one person at a time
The Virginia Education Foundation (VEF) promotes literacy, grade level reading, and school success by providing grants and non-cash revenues to Virginia Title I public schools and organizations in Virginia that serve the educational needs…
Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.
VisionFund International (VFI) was established for the purpose of supporting World Vision International (WVI) by coordinating and providing funding to World Vision - affiliated microfinance institutions (MFIs) located in developing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lions of Virginia Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Virginia Eye Institute Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
18 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. 18 of the 58 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 POWHATAN CHRISTMAS MOTHER ↗
- Who funds POWHATAN VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds POWHATAN COUNTY FIRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - POWHATAN ↗
- Who funds Lions Clubs International Foundation ↗
- Who funds Virginia Voice Inc ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds LIONS OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BACKPACKS OF LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA EYE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Powhatan Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Eyes Ears Nose and Paws Inc ↗
- Who funds Conexus ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Powhatan Lions Club Foundation 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.
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