· Public charity
Texas Lions Foundation Inc
Accumulate funds which are to be used to provide disaster assistance relief and equipment.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $59,400 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $172,929 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $113,529 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN ANGELO AREA FOUNDATION | $16,400 |
| MT PLEASANT LIONS CLUB | $13,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA LIONS FOUNDATI | $10,000 |
| LIONS OF FLORIDA MD 35 | $10,000 |
| ELGIN EVENING LIONS CLUB | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Texas Lions Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 91% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
Non-profit community service group.
Volunteers serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, primarily focus on helping to aid the blind and visually impaired.
Raising Money to Help Community
To serve the community in civic and social welfare
Community involvement
Support benevolent programs of Lions Club International.
Prevent blindness locally and in the world
Grants
To foster a spirit of understanding among all people for humanitarian needs by providing services thru community involvement.
Governor projects / blind projects
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Lions Foundation and the most unlike its peers is San Angelo Area Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 20 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 LIONS INTERNATIONAL MD-2 ↗
- Who funds Lions Club of Pearland Inc ↗
- Who funds PANHANDLE OF TEXAS LIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN ANGELO AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANYON LAKE NOON LIONS CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds JUDSON LIONS CLUB ↗
- Who funds LIONS CLUB INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 2-T2 ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS ↗
- Who funds SHERMAN NOON LIONS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BRAUNFELS LIONS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA LIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL LIONS CLUB-DISTRICT 2A3 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Lions Clubs International Foundation
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 Texas Lions Foundation Inc 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.