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Texas Lions Foundation Inc

Accumulate funds which are to be used to provide disaster assistance relief and equipment.

$173k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$168kPublic Safety & Disaster$119kRecreation & Sports$58kHuman Services$30kCommunity Improvement$20kYouth Development$20kPhilanthropy$9k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $59,400, the rows itemized in this filing. The $172,929 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $113,529 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PEARLAND LIONS CLUB: $30k → 10%NORTH CAROLINA LIONS FOUNDATI: $10k → 12%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Texas Lions Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 91%.

Texas Lions Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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
International Association of Lions Club Lititz Lions and Leos Club

Non-profit community service group.

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2
International Association of Lions Club

Volunteers serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, primarily focus on helping to aid the blind and visually impaired.

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3
International Association of Lions

Raising Money to Help Community

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4
International Association of Lions Clubs

To serve the community in civic and social welfare

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5
Lions Foundation of Greater Arlington Inc
Human Services
6
Interrnational Association of Lions

Community involvement

Community Improvement
7
International Association of Lions Clubs

Support benevolent programs of Lions Club International.

Health
8
International Association of Lions 65718 23A District

Prevent blindness locally and in the world

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9
International Association of Lions Clubs

Grants

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10
International Association of Lions Clubs

To foster a spirit of understanding among all people for humanitarian needs by providing services thru community involvement.

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11
International Association of Lions Clubs District 14K

Governor projects / blind projects

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12
Priest Lake Lions Club Foundation
Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Lions Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 20 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CYCLE FOR LIFE INC: $154,129 · OtherCYCLE FOR LIFE INCLIONS INTERNATIONAL MD-2: $58,566 · OtherLIONS INTERNATIONAL MD-2INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS: $13,000 · OtherLIONS CLUB INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 2-T2: $10,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS: $10,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS: $10,000 · OtherLIONS FOUNDATION OF MULTIPLE DISTRICT 35 INC: $10,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS: $10,000 · Other+3 more: $22,393 · Other+3 morePANHANDLE OF TEXAS LIONS FOUNDATION: $23,889 · PhilanthropyPANHANDLE OF T…SAN ANGELO AREA FOUNDATION: $16,400 · PhilanthropySAN ANGELO ARE…NEW BRAUNFELS LIONS CHARITIES INC: $9,000 · PhilanthropyNEW BRAUNFELS …CALIFORNIA LIONS FOUNDATION: $6,675 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA LIO…Lions Club of Pearland Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesLions Club…NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Human ServicesNORTH CARO…SHERMAN NOON LIONS CHARITIES INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementJUDSON LIONS CLUB: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCANYON LAKE NOON LIONS CHARITIES: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$298,088Philanthropy$55,964Human Services$40,000Community Improvement$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIONS INTERNATIONAL MD-2: $58,566 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetLions Club of Pearland Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPANHANDLE OF TEXAS LIONS FOUNDATION: $23,889 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS: $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetSHERMAN NOON LIONS CHARITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEW BRAUNFELS LIONS CHARITIES INC: $9,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL LIONS CLUB-DISTRICT 2A3: $6,488 over 1y, 8.5% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Lions Clubs Internati…
Lions Clubs International FoundationIL13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Texas Lions Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Texas Lions Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    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 20 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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