· Public charity
Shelby Township Lions Charities
To perform charitable activities for the community, principally in the form of cash donations to needy community organizations and individuals.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE | $30,000 |
| PENRICKTON CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $27,200 |
| LIONS BEAR LAKE CAMP | $22,380 |
| LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $15,000 |
| TRINITY COMMUNITY CARE | $15,000 |
| LCIF - LIONS CLUB INTERNATIONAL | $7,500 |
| SAMARITAN HOUSE | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–26, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2026, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PCPenrickton Center for Blind Children9× · 2017–2026 · $147k · revenue +87%
- LDLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND7× · 2017–2026 · $120k · revenue +26%
- AOANGELS OF HOPE A FAMILY CANCER FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $43k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- STSHELBY TOWNSHIP PARKS & REC DEPTone grant, 2019 · $19k
- KAKIDS AT PLAY PROJECTone grant, 2021 · $15k
- TRTHE RAINBOW CONNECTIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +8%
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.
Eversight's mission is to restore sight and prevent blindness through the healing power of donation, transplantation and research. Blinding eye diseases affect 80 million Americans. That means millions of people cannot see their loved…
To empower people with disabilities through employment, services and advocacy.
To honor donors by advancing sight for all humankind.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
The mission of the Montgomery County Community Foundation (MCCF) is to provide leadership in Montgomery County by directing sustainable financial resources that strengthen our community and improve the quality of life for current and…
To provide personal and compassionate support to cancer patients and their caregivers in our community.
Saavi Services for the Blind provides programs and services to meet the needs of individuals with vision loss, promoting individuals to become independent and active participants in the community.
Donor Alliance saves and heals lives through organ and tissue donation. Donor Alliance is one of 55 Federally designated, non-profit organ procurement organizations serving Colorado and most of Wyoming. Additionally, it is a member of the…
To support and encourage those whose lives have been impacted by cancer.
Empower and educate sight-impaired individuals and their families with disease education knowledge, tools and technology so they may live more independently and maintain a high quality of life.
BLIND, Inc. was founded by blind Minnesotans who believe that, given the proper training and opportunity, blind people can lead normal, independent, and fulfilled lives. We believe that blindness is respectable and that with proper…
Conexus achieves its mission of eliminating poor vision as a barrier to success by identifying children with poor vision through comprehensive vision screenings and connecting those to be found with poor vision to appropriate eye care.
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 15 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 Penrickton Center for Blind Children ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OF HOPE A FAMILY CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RAINBOW CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds Lions Clubs International Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MACOMB COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVERSIGHT MICHIGAN ↗
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: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Shelby Township Lions Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shelby Township Lions Charities. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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