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San Diego Lions Welfare Foundation at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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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 FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$262k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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.

Animals$2.5MHuman Services$37kHealth$21kRecreation & Sports$17kCrime & Legal$7kArts & Culture$5k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$261,936
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIONS CLUB OF SAN DIEGO$261,936
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%KIDS TURN SAN DIEGO: $7k → 11%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $7k → 11%TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF SD: $10k → 11%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.
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 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
Center for Community Solutions

The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…

Health
2
San Diego Coasters
Arts & Culture
3
Blind Community Center of San Diego

Provide recreation, social, and educational activities for blind and visually impaired persons.

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4
San Diego Double Ten Committee
Arts & Culture
5
Survivors of Suicide-San Diego

To provide support and services to survivors of suicide loss while educating the community regarding suicide awareness and prevention methods. Core services include 27+ support groups that meet weekly/monthly serving over 875 people and a…

Health
6
San Diego Crime Commission

Law enforcement agencies in today's environment find it difficult to cope with the magnitude of crime without the involved support of business, media and community. Since 1981, the San Diego County Crime Commission has built public…

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7
Sport Innovators

To establish San Diego and Southern California as the core of the healthy living, sports and active lifestyle community. Through supporting companies at all stages, we help create jobs, but not just any jobs, jobs that make our city and…

Philanthropy
8
San Diego Center for Children

Founded in 1887, the center is the oldest children's nonprofit in the region accredited by the joint commission for its excellence in quality of care. the center provides a continuum of therapeutic & educational services to youth &…

Human Services
9
Union of Pan Asian Communities

To improve the general well-being and education of the asian, pacific islander and other ethnic communities of san diego county. upac recognizes the diverse ethnic and cultural identities and strengths of these communities and their need…

Human Services
10
Southern California Alcohol and Drug Programs Inc

Substance abuse prevention, treatment, education, and co-occurring disorders that follow or originate to the same

Health
11
Center for Community Intrgration San Diego

To provide new skills through training and hands on experience to the new immigrants into the mainstream society by training and making them economically independent.

Human Services
12
United Cerebral Palsy Association of San Diego County

To advance the independence, productivity and full citizenship of people affected by cerebral palsy and other disabilities by offering the following programs: adult day and employment programs, an assistive technology center, a toy and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Center for the Blind; the most unlike its peers is Rise Up Industries. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIONS CLUB OF SAN DIEGO: $2,538,698 · OtherLIONS CLUB OF SAN DIEGO+5 more: $51,140 · OtherTravelers Aid Society of San Diego: $9,850 · Human ServicesKids Turn San Diego: $7,375 · Human ServicesRise Up Industries: $6,800 · Human ServicesDeaf Community Services of San Diego Inc: $6,780 · HealthSAN DIEGO YOUNG ARTIST MUSIC ACADEM: $5,449 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,589,838Human Services$24,025Health$6,780Arts & Culture$5,449

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIONS CLUB OF SAN DIEGO: $2,538,698 over 8y, 86% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTravelers Aid Society of San Diego: $9,850 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Vision of Children: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKids Turn San Diego: $7,375 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSAN DIEGO CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $6,700 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAN DIEGO YOUNG ARTIST MUSIC ACADEM: $5,449 over 1y, 7.5% 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.

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 Foundat…Lions Club of San Die…Sempra FoundationThe Country FriendsRancho Santa Fe Found…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 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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