· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Blessed Sacrament Huguenot School | $2,000 |
| Powhatan Volunteer Rescue Squad | $2,000 |
| Powhatan Y | $1,500 |
| Powhatan County Fire Association | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| VA School for Deaf & Blind Foundation | $1,100 |
| Eyes Ears Nose & Paws Inc | $1,000 |
| Backpacks of Love | $1,000 |
| LIONS INTL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 58 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Powhatan Lions Club Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Powhatan Lions Club Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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