· Public charity
Stephenville Evening Lions Club
The mission of the STEPHENVILLE EVENING LIONS CLUB is to raise funds to support the organizations of the cross timbers area in educating youth in every aspect of personal growth with a strong emphasis on physical and outdoor activities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $114,086 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $130,776 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,690 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ERATH COUNTY 4-H | $42,000 |
| STEPHENVILLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TARLETON STATE BASS CLUB | $15,000 |
| ERATH COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION | $14,300 |
| ERATH PASTURE TO PACKER PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| STEPHENVILLE HS OUTDOOR ADVENTURE C | $7,686 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,100 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +143% since the first grant, against +58% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FHFOSTER'S HOME FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2021 · $62k · revenue +673%
- ECERATH COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION4× · 2019–2025 · $49k · revenue +143%
- SSSTEPHENVILLE SOCCER ASSOCIATION2× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- JMJAYDEN MCKINNEY MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $57k · revenue -16%
- ECERATH COUNTY 4H SHOOTING SPORTS CLUone grant, 2024 · $20k
- TTTexas Trails Council Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $19k · revenue +63%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Further the education of Atascosa County youth
Conduct an agriculture fair for the youth of jack county texas
Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.
Promote agricultural and education to local youth
Provide a venue for youth to learn rodeo skills.
Youth livestock show & fair - annual event teaches responsibility and pride of ownership to area youth who participate in the livestock show. the participants are rewarded by selling their animals/projects to local businesses and…
To conduct youth home economics & livestock shows, allowing youth to show projects & demonstrate their knowledge o home economics, agriculture, & horticulture; to hold a cash sale o the top placing
Organization facilitates and manages the annual erath county junior livestock show with close to 1000 youth participants. this activity promotes the health, agricultural education, sportsmanship and well-being of participants.
To develop the character of our youth - our future leaders - through competitive livestock and youth fair projects which teach them critical life skill including personal responsibility, financial and time management, fair play, good…
The purpose of the association is to promote and encourage leadership, character, citizenship, and sportsmanship among the 4-h, ffa, and fccla participants by sponsoring and managing the annual piney woods fair agricultural shows (pwf) and…
To provide quality, relevant outreach and continuing education programs and services to the people of texas. provide encouragement, recognition and financial support to the texas 4-h club movement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Erath County Livestock Association and the most unlike its peers is Jayden Mckinney Memorial Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds STEPHENVILLE ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOSTER'S HOME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAYDEN MCKINNEY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ERATH COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHENVILLE SOCCER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Texas Trails Council Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Erath County Humane Society ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HUCKABAY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Stephenville Evening Lions Club funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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