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The International Association of Lions Clubs

To empower Lions Clubs, volunteers, and partners to improve health and well-being, strengthen communities, and support those in need through humanitarian services and grants that impact lives globally and encourage peace and international understanding.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Community Improvement$439kInternational$254kRecreation & Sports$68kYouth Development$53kArts & Culture$37kPublic Benefit$28kHealth$15kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $126,365 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,174,452 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,048,087 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 $10k3 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $101k
$14,850
Median grant
10
States reached
$160M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MD 2$15,000
MD 5m$15,000
MD 49$15,000
MD 18$15,000
MD 22$14,850
MD 31$13,500
MD 11$12,288
MD 26$9,727
MD 13$8,500
MD 9$7,500
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MD 21: $20k → 11%MD 33: $15k → 7%LCICON2023BOSTON (Host Committee): $25k → 10%MD 38: $10k → 7%MD5M: $15k → 5%MD 5M: $10k → 9%MD 14: $15k → 9%MD 14: $8k → 13%MD14: $15k → 16%Lions Float Inc: $15k → 10%MD 4: $15k → 13%4-L2: $100k → 14%MD20: $11k → 14%MD 2: $15k → 13%MD 2: $15k → 16%MD 35: $15k → 15%MD 11: $12k → 10%MD17: $16k → 16%MD 26: $10k → 10%MD 27: $10k → 10%MD27: $15k → 11%MD36: $15k → 15%MD 23: $10k → 9%MD23: $15k → 12%MD 31: $14k → 16%MD 18: $15k → 13%MD 6: $15k → 9%MD 25: $10k → 13%MD 13: $22k → 15%MD 49: $15k → 8%MD 30: $15k → 10%MD16: $15k → 5%16J: $10k → 8%MD 16: $16k → 10%MD 24: $15k → 7%MD24: $15k → 8%MD 24: $15k → 11%MD24: $15k → 20%MD 22: $15k → 13%MD 5m: $15k → 5%4-L2: $75k → 14%MD 13: $19k → 15%MD 49: $15k → 8%MD22: $15k → 13%MD 13: $15k → 15%MD 22: $15k → 13%MD13: $15k → 15%MD 13: $9k → 15%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.

Which US states your grants reach

AK
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
OK
MS
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $328k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

South Asia$156k · 48% · 15 grants

Stated purpose: Marketing · Leadership Development · Membership Development

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$73k · 22% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: Marketing

East Asia and the Pacific$60k · 18% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: Marketing

Sub-Saharan Africa$22k · 7% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: Marketing

South America$10k · 3% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Marketing

Central America and the Caribbean$7k · 2% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Leadership Development

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 5% of The International Association of Lions Clubs’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.

The International Association of Lions Clubslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$678k · 17 repeat orgs$231k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
14

Total granted

$678k
$187k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
-1%

Still filing today

76%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementInternationalOther

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

  • LF
    LIONS FLOAT INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +1% · 65% of their budget
  • IA
    INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS STATE ORGANIZATION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +6%
  • MD
    MULTIPLE DISTRICT 5M INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS INC
    3× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • L(
    LCICON2023BOSTON (Host Committee)
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • M2
    MD 21
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • LI
    LIONS INTERNATIONAL STATE OF OREGON
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +14%

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
International Association of Lions Club Lititz Lions and Leos Club

Non-profit community service group.

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2
District 5M-8 of the International Association of Lions

Provide administration for 74 clubs in minnesota with 2828 members

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3
International Association of Lions Clubs

To serve the community in civic and social welfare

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4
International Association of Lions

Raising Money to Help Community

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5
International Association of Lions Clubs

Promote and support the efforts of the lions clubs within the district.

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6
International Association of Lions Clubs District 14K

Governor projects / blind projects

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7
International Association of Lions 10 District

Administration of distrct lions club

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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

The primary exempt purpose of the Lions Club is to promote the civic, cultural, social, and moral welfare of the community and to encourage service-minded people to serve their community without personal financial reward. While its…

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10
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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11
International Association of Lions Clubs

Local, national and international service

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12
Lions International District 5 Se

Prevention of blindness

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lions Club International and the most unlike its peers is Lions Club of Virginia Va Multiple District 24. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 60 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%4%20–35yr13%0%35–55yr16%82%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr16%2%20–35yr13%0%35–55yr16%66%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/35
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,530

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
14/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS STATE ORGANIZATION — $79,239 · OtherINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS STATE ORGANIZATIONLIONS INTERNATIONAL MD-2 — $45,393 · OtherLIONS INTERNATIONAL MD-2MD22 — $44,850 · OtherMD22MULTIPLE DISTRICT 5M INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS INC — $39,600 · OtherMULTIPLE DISTRICT 5M INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS INCMULTIPLE DISTRICT 16 LIONS CLUBS INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF LIONS CLUBS — $31,356 · OtherMULTIPLE DISTRICT 49 LIONS — $30,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS — $29,850 · OtherINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS — $25,000 · OtherLIONS CLUB INTERNATIONAL MULTIPLE DISTRICT 27 — $25,000 · OtherLCICON2023BOSTON (Host Committee) — $25,000 · Other+22 more — $322,037 · Other+22 moreLIONS FLOAT INC — $190,000 · InternationalLIONS FLOAT INCLions Clubs of Colorado — $15,000 · Community ImprovementLIONS CLUB OF IOWA MULT DIST 9 INC — $7,500 · Community Improvement
Other$697,325International$190,000Community Improvement$22,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLIONS FLOAT INC — $190,000 over 3y, 65% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS STATE ORGANIZATION — $79,239 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetLIONS INTERNATIONAL MD-2 — $45,393 over 2y, 14% of budgetMULTIPLE DISTRICT 5M INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS INC — $39,600 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetMULTIPLE DISTRICT 16 LIONS CLUBS INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF LIONS CLUBS — $31,356 over 2y, 26% of budgetMULTIPLE DISTRICT 49 LIONS — $30,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS — $29,850 over 2y, 48% of budgetLIONS CLUB INTERNATIONAL MULTIPLE DISTRICT 27 — $25,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUB — $22,500 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetINTL ASSN OF LIONS CLUBS PA STATE — $22,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetLIONS CLUBS- MD-31 - N C LIONS — $21,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetLIONS INTERNATIONAL DIST 17 KANSAS STATE — $20,778 over 2y, 16% of budgetLIONS INTERNATIONAL FLORIDA MULTIPLE DISTRICT 35 INC — $20,333 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetLIONS CLUB INTERNATIONAL — $15,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetLIONS INTERNATIONAL STATE OF OREGON — $15,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetLions Club of Virginia VA Multiple District 24 — $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCOUNCIL OF GOVERNORS - DISTRICT 30 LIONS OF MISSISSIPPI — $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMULTIPLE DISTRICT NO 33 LIONS CLUBS INT — $15,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetLions Clubs of New York State & Bermuda Lions Clubs International Inc — $11,489 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS D/B/A Lions of Indiana Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetLIONS INTERNATIONAL OF MISSOURI MULTIPLE DISTRICT 26 — $9,727 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetLions of Oklahoma Mutliple District 3 Incorporated — $7,500 over 1y, 3.7% 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.

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.

Lions Clubs Internati…
Lions Clubs International FoundationIL29.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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 The International Association of Lions Clubs 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.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 35 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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