How much does Ramsey Lions Club give?

Ramsey Lions Club reported 18 itemized grants totaling $285,710, out of $451,657 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Ramsey Lions Club fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Health (26%), Public Benefit (13%).

Who are Ramsey Lions Club's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Ramsey ($365k), Ramsey Scholarship Trust Fund ($330k), Mercy and Unity Hospitals Foundation ($251k).

Does Ramsey Lions Club fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ramsey Lions Club?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Connexus Energy Foundation, The Graco Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.

Where is Ramsey Lions Club based?

Ramsey Lions Club is based in MN.

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Minnesota · Public charity

Ramsey Lions Club

Service to the community by promoting the theory and practice of the principles of good government and citizenship.

$452k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 18
Itemized grants FY2025: 16
Organizations funded FY2024: 6%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $286k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $12,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $62,442
Organizations funded a year: 7 to 22; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $244k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Ramsey Lions Club funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	18	$286k	0%
FY2024	16	$233k	6%
FY2023	22	$377k	9%
FY2022	21	$465k	10%
FY2021	19	$468k	11%
FY2020	7	$127k	14%
FY2019	20	$445k	15%
FY2018	22	$453k	18%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$937kHealth$835kPublic Benefit$416kHuman Services$371kAnimals$268kHousing & Shelter$160kRecreation & Sports$115kYouth Development$60kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
City of Ramsey	$365,353	8	n/a
Ramsey Scholarship Trust Fund	$330,000	6	100%
Mercy and Unity Hospitals Foundation	$250,500	5	3%
Anoka-Ramsey Community College Foundation	$247,385	9	12%
Anoka Technical College Foundation	$245,000	9	6%
Can Do Canines	$231,000	8	2%
Minnesota Lions Hearing Foundation Inc	$198,000	6	17%
Stepping Stone Emergency Housing	$129,000	8	1%
True Friends	$113,353	8	0%
Alexandra House Inc	$113,305	9	1%

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All grantees of Ramsey Lions Club by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
City of Ramsey	$365,353	8	n/a
Ramsey Scholarship Trust Fund	$330,000	6	100%
Mercy and Unity Hospitals Foundation	$250,500	5	3%
Anoka-Ramsey Community College Foundation	$247,385	9	12%
Anoka Technical College Foundation	$245,000	9	6%
Can Do Canines	$231,000	8	2%
Minnesota Lions Hearing Foundation Inc	$198,000	6	17%
Stepping Stone Emergency Housing	$129,000	8	1%
True Friends	$113,353	8	0%
Alexandra House Inc	$113,305	9	1%
Leader Dogs for the Blind	$112,500	8	0%
Minnesota Lions Vision Foundation Inc	$106,000	6	0%
Anoka Hennepin Educational Foundation Incorporated	$94,500	8	6%
Magnus Veterans Foundation	$90,000	5	4%
Veterans on the Lake Resort	$81,500	8	1%
HOPE 4 Youth	$65,000	7	1%
Lions Clubs International Foundation	$48,000	6	0%
Minnesota Lions Diabetes Foundation Inc	$44,000	6	4%
American Diabetes Association	$42,000	5	0%
City of Nowthen	$40,800	3	n/a
Impact Services Inc	$40,000	3	2%
Haven for Heroes Inc	$40,000	5	5%
Allina Health Foundation	$35,000	2	0%
Eagles Healing Nest	$35,000	1	2%
Confidence Learning Center Inc	$33,500	2	2%
Project New Hope Inc	$33,000	4	2%
University of Minnesota Foundation	$20,000	1	0%
Mercy Hospital Foundation	$20,000	1	3%
Md5m Lions Kidsight Foundation Inc	$15,000	2	7%
Family Promise in Anoka County	$11,100	2	2%
City of Anoka	$10,000	1	n/a
Anoka County Historical Society	$10,000	1	4%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc	$5,000	2	0%
Youth First Community of Promise	$5,000	2	n/a

Ramsey Lions Club supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 30.

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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.

Connexus Energy FoundationMN34.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Connexus Energy Foundation · The Graco Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Deal Family Foundation · Walter C Rasmussen - Northeast Bank Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Connexus Energy · Allina Health System · Edina Realty Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota

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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About Ramsey Lions Club

How much does Ramsey Lions Club give?: Ramsey Lions Club reported 18 itemized grants totaling $285,710, out of $451,657 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Ramsey Lions Club fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Health (26%), Public Benefit (13%).
Who are Ramsey Lions Club's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Ramsey ($365k), Ramsey Scholarship Trust Fund ($330k), Mercy and Unity Hospitals Foundation ($251k).
Does Ramsey Lions Club fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ramsey Lions Club?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Connexus Energy Foundation, The Graco Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.
Where is Ramsey Lions Club based?: Ramsey Lions Club is based in MN.