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San Diego Lions Welfare Foundation

The Foundation was organized for the promotion of the welfare of humanity, including the sight impaired, the hearing impaired and the under-privileged.

$262k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$261,936
Largest grant, FY2025
$261,936
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$6.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations San Diego Lions Welfare Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$262k0%
FY20241$230k0%
FY20231$288k0%
FY20221$228k0%
FY20211$281k0%
FY20201$234k0%
FY20191$289k0%
FY20181$726k100%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$2.5MHuman Services$37kHealth$21kRecreation & Sports$17kCrime & Legal$7kArts & Culture$5k

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lions Club of San Diego$2,538,698886%
Lions Camp Jack$16,9401n/a
Armed Services YMCA of the USA$10,0001n/a
Promises2kids Foundation$10,00010%
Travelers Aid Society of San Diego$9,85012%
Kids Turn San Diego$7,37513%
Rise Up Industries$6,8001n/a
Deaf Community Services of San Diego Inc$6,7801n/a
San Diego Center for the Blind$6,70010%
San Diego Young Artist Music Academ$5,44917%

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.

The San Diego FoundationCA19.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Lions Club of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · The Country Friends · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 San Diego Lions Welfare Foundation

How much does San Diego Lions Welfare Foundation give?
San Diego Lions Welfare Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $261,936 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does San Diego Lions Welfare Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (97%), Human Services (1%), Health (1%).
Who are San Diego Lions Welfare Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lions Club of San Diego ($2.5M), Lions Camp Jack ($17k), Armed Services YMCA of the USA ($10k).
Does San Diego Lions Welfare Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as San Diego Lions Welfare Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, Lions Club of San Diego, Sempra Foundation.
Where is San Diego Lions Welfare Foundation based?
San Diego Lions Welfare Foundation is based in CA.

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 11 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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