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The Deland Lions Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$667
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Health$9kHuman Services$4kEducation$3kCrime & Legal$2kHousing & Shelter$2kRecreation & Sports$2kAnimals$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$667
Median grant
2
States reached
$361k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIONS CLUBS INTERNATIONAL$667
Individual grant recipient$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 10%South Eastern Guide Dogs: $300 → 10%International Hearing Dog: $300 → 10%International Hearing Dog: $300 → 10%The Neighborhood Center: $300 → 12%The Neighborhood Center: $300 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14k · 12 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
31

Total granted

$14k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+10%

Still filing today

50%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsOther

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

  • NC
    NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER OF WEST VOLUSIA INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $900 · revenue +38%
  • OV
    ONE VOICE FOR VOLUSIA INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $650 · revenue +16%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $600 · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • HA
    Homeless and Foster Children
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $770

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Jacksonville Humane Society Inc

The jacksonville humane society provides care, comfort and compassion to animals in need while engaging the hearts, hands and minds of our community to bring about an end to the killing of abandoned and orphaned shelter animals.

Animals
2
Volusia Literacy Council Inc

To create/maintain/organize a network of volunteer tutors to teach adults (or young adults aged 16 or older, who have been removed from formal schooling) who perform below a 9th grade level to complete basic literacy tasks including, but…

Education
3
Freedom Canines International Inc

Freedom Canines International empowers people through the training and placement of assistance dogs at no cost to Texans with disabilities. The organization raises and trains dogs to perform tasks such as mobility support, medical alert,…

Animals
4
Home Fur Good Animal Rescue and Placement

To eliminate euthanasia of treatable, adoptable dogs and cats in maricopa county through adoption, medical care, promotion of spay & neuter and owner education. hfg also operates a low-cost vaccine/microchip clinic each week to provide…

Animals
5
Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind Inc

The guide dog foundation for the blind, inc. provides guide and service dogs free of charge to provide increased independence, enhanced mobility, and companionship to people who are blind, visually impaired or have other disablities. the…

6
Hubbard House Inc

Safety, empowerment, and social change for victims of domestic violence and their families. to that end we offer a full compendium of services for victims of domestic violence.

Human Services
7
Society Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Volusi

The Organization is dedicated to the protection and welfare of all animals. It includes low cost shots, foster, adoptions, education, spay and neuter, animal rescue and pet therapy and food program.

Animals
8
Lighthouse of Southwest Florida Inc

A non profit rehabilitation center committed to ensuring blind and visually impaired persons have the tools, support and opportunities necessary to successfully achieve their desired level of independence.

9
West Palm Beach Library Foundation Inc

The library foundation's mission is to ensure that the life-changing programs, services, and resources offered through the mandel public library of west palm beach remain free and accessible to all.

Philanthropy
10
Lake Humane Society

Mission: to protect animals and build connections between pets and people through advocacy and education. vision: leading and guiding a humane lake county core values: compassion for pets and people. engagement through innovative programs,…

Animals
11
The Early Learning Coalition of Flagler and Volusia Counties Inc

To create and cultivate learning opportunities that empower children and families to thrive.

Education
12
Duo Dogs Inc

Duo dogs, inc. is a national nonprofit organization that trains and connects dogs with people to cultivate meaningful changes in individuals, families, and communities.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Center of West Volusia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Braille Association of Mid Florida. 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

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 43 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LIONS CLUBS INTERNATIONAL — $3,705 · OtherLIONS CLUBS INTERNATIONALIndividual grant recipient — $2,081 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHomeless and Foster Children — $1,588 · OtherHomeless and Foster ChildrenIndividual grant recipient — $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWELCOMING HEARTS INC — $1,200 · OtherWELCOMING HEARTS INCBRAILLE ASSOCIATION OF MID FLORIDA — $1,080 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $770 · Other+28 more — $8,406 · Other+28 moreNEIGHBORHOOD CENTER OF WEST VOLUSIA INC — $900 · Human ServicesPARAGON SERVICE DOGS — $600 · Human ServicesSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc — $300 · Human ServicesTHE HOUSE NEXT DOOR INC — $900 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY — $600 · EducationBLACK HOMESCHOOLERS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA — $50 · EducationHELP ANIMALS INC — $300 · Animals
Other$21,830Human Services$1,800Health$900Education$650Animals$300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBRAILLE ASSOCIATION OF MID FLORIDA — $1,080 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CENTER OF WEST VOLUSIA INC — $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOUSE NEXT DOOR INC — $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONE VOICE FOR VOLUSIA INC — $650 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY — $600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPARAGON SERVICE DOGS — $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHELP ANIMALS INC — $300 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAND AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK HOMESCHOOLERS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA — $50 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 BRAILLE ASSOCIATION OF MID FLORIDA
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER OF WEST VOLUSIA INC
  • Who funds THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR INC
  • Who funds ONE VOICE FOR VOLUSIA INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY
  • Who funds PARAGON SERVICE DOGS
  • Who funds HELP ANIMALS INC
  • Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc
  • Who funds DELAND AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC

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 The Deland 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Neighborhood Center of West Volusia Inc27% of income from government
  • The House Next Door Inc4% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Deland Lions Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Deland Lions Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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