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Ramsey Lions Club at a glance

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Ramsey Lions Club

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

$452k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$62k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $285,710, the rows itemized in this filing. The $451,657 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $165,947 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $191k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
$12,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$244k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF RAMSEY$62,442
CAN DO CANINES$31,000
STEP STONE HOUSING$25,000
ANOKA HENN TECH COLLEGE FOUND$25,000
ANOKA RAMSEY COMM COLLEGE$25,000
ALEXANDRA HOUSE$15,000
IMPACT SERVICES$15,000
TRUE FRIENDS$13,268
ANOKA HENN EDUC FOUNDATION$12,000
MAGNUS VETERANS FOUNDATION$10,000
ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
VETERANS ON THE LAKE$10,000
PROJECT NEW HOPE$6,000
LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND$6,000
HOPE FOR YOUTH$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $237k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $33k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $11k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $11k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $6k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $6k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $6k → 8%ALEXANDRA HOUSE: $20k → 7%ALEXANDRA HOUSE: $20k → 7%ALEXANDRA HOUSE: $18k → 7%ALEXANDRA HOUSE: $15k → 7%ALEXANDRA HOUSE: $10k → 7%ALEXANDRA HOUSE: $10k → 7%ALEXANDRA HOUSE: $10k → 7%ALEXANDRA HOUSE: $5k → 7%ALEXANDRA HOUSE: $5k → 7%FAMILY PROMISE IN ANOKA COUNTY: $6k → 7%FAMILY PROMISE IN ANOKA COUNTY: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
MA
IA
PA
VA
TN
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 27 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
7

Total granted

$3.2M
$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+111%

Still filing today

89%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHousing & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RS
    RAMSEY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST FUND
    6× · 2017–2023 · $330k · revenue +81% · 100% of their budget
  • AT
    ANOKA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $245k · revenue +24%
  • CD
    CAN DO CANINES
    8× · 2017–2025 · $231k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • EH
    EAGLES HEALING NEST
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue -48%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +111%
  • MH
    Mercy Hospital Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +156%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Minnesota Hospital Foundation

The minnesota hospital foundation works on strategies that include data-led quality and safety improvement, education, research, training and leadership to improve the health of minnesotans.

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2
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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3
The Foundation for Health Care Continuums

The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.

Health
4
Disabled American Veterans of Minnesota Foundation Inc

To assist in providing for the rehabilitation and continuing welfare of america's disabled veterans, their families, dependents, and survivors.

Human Services
5
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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6
Leadingage Minnesota Foundation

The foundation supports initiatives designed to transform and enhance the experience of aging. the focus is on: catalytic change in building the workforce for tomorrow; advancing new approaches to service delivery; and developing…

Human Services
7
Minnesota Hospital Association

Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…

Community Improvement
8
Touchstone Mental Health

Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…

Human Services
9
Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans

Minnesota assistance council for veterans (macv) is dedicated to a mission to end veteran homelessness in minnesota. macv provides services to veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness throughout minnesota in areas of housing,…

Employment
10
United Hospital Foundation

United hospital foundation exists to enhance the health of united hospital patients and the wellness of the community we serve. the foundation, year after year, has proven that a true partnership between community and hospital guarantees…

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11
Neuro Hospitality House

To provide accessible and affordable accommodations for patients and their care givers while seeking specialty neurological healthcare in rochester, mn.

Housing & Shelter
12
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is True Friends; the most unlike its peers is Ramsey Scholarship Trust Fund. 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

32 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. 32 of the 34 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
28/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF RAMSEY: $365,353 · OtherCITY OF RAMSEYMERCY AND UNITY HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $250,500 · OtherMERCY AND UNITY HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONANOKA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $245,000 · OtherANOKA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATIONCAN DO CANINES: $231,000 · OtherCAN DO CANINESMINNESOTA LIONS VISION FOUNDATION INC: $106,000 · OtherMINNESOTA LIONS VISION FOUNDATION INCVETERANS ON THE LAKE RESORT: $81,500 · Other+10 more: $285,300 · Other+10 moreRAMSEY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST FUND: $330,000 · EducationRAMSEY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST…ANOKA-RAMSEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $247,385 · EducationANOKA-RAMSEY COMMUNITY C…ANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $94,500 · EducationANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATION…+1 more: $20,000 · EducationMINNESOTA LIONS HEARING FOUNDATION INC: $198,000 · HealthMINNESOTA LION…MAGNUS VETERANS FOUNDATION: $90,000 · HealthMAGNUS VETERAN…MINNESOTA LIONS DIABETES FOUNDATION INC: $44,000 · HealthMINNESOTA LION…American Diabetes Association: $42,000 · HealthAmerican Diabe…ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthALLINA HEALTH …+1 more: $5,000 · HealthALEXANDRA HOUSE INC: $113,305 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $112,500 · Human ServicesFamily Promise in Anoka County: $11,100 · Human ServicesSTEPPING STONE EMERGENCY HOUSING: $129,000 · Housing & ShelterHAVEN FOR HEROES INC: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterTRUE FRIENDS: $113,353 · Recreation & SportsHOPE 4 Youth: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH FIRST COMMUNITY OF PROMISE: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,564,653Education$691,885Health$414,000Human Services$236,905Housing & Shelter$169,000Recreation & Sports$113,353Youth Development$70,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRAMSEY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST FUND: $330,000 over 6y, 100% of budgetMERCY AND UNITY HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $250,500 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetANOKA-RAMSEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $247,385 over 9y, 12% of budgetANOKA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $245,000 over 9y, 5.8% of budgetCAN DO CANINES: $231,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetMINNESOTA LIONS HEARING FOUNDATION INC: $198,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetSTEPPING STONE EMERGENCY HOUSING: $129,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetTRUE FRIENDS: $113,353 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetALEXANDRA HOUSE INC: $113,305 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $112,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA LIONS VISION FOUNDATION INC: $106,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $94,500 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetMAGNUS VETERANS FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetVETERANS ON THE LAKE RESORT: $81,500 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetHOPE 4 Youth: $65,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetLions Clubs International Foundation: $48,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA LIONS DIABETES FOUNDATION INC: $44,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $42,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT SERVICES INC: $40,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHAVEN FOR HEROES INC: $40,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLES HEALING NEST: $35,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCONFIDENCE LEARNING CENTER INC: $33,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetPROJECT NEW HOPE INC: $33,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Hospital Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMD5M LIONS KIDSIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetFamily Promise in Anoka County: $11,100 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetANOKA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 RAMSEY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST FUND ↗
  • Who funds MERCY AND UNITY HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANOKA-RAMSEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANOKA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA LIONS HEARING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPPING STONE EMERGENCY HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds TRUE FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA LIONS VISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds MAGNUS VETERANS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS ON THE LAKE RESORT ↗
  • Who funds HOPE 4 Youth ↗
  • Who funds Lions Clubs International Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA LIONS DIABETES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds HAVEN FOR HEROES INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EAGLES HEALING NEST ↗
  • Who funds CONFIDENCE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT NEW HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MD5M LIONS KIDSIGHT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Family Promise in Anoka County ↗
  • Who funds ANOKA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH FIRST COMMUNITY OF PROMISE ↗

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 Found…The Graco FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…Deal Family FoundationWalter C Rasmussen - …Xcel Energy FoundationOtto Bremer TrustConnexus EnergyAllina Health SystemEdina Realty Foundati…Pohlad Family Foundat…Catholic Community Fo…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ramsey Lions Club funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ramsey Lions Club. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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