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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $126,365, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,174,452 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,048,087 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.

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 18$15,000
MD 49$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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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%MD13: $15k → 15%MD 22: $15k → 13%MD 13: $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
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.

Which US states its 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

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. 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 sends the money.

About 5% of The International Association of Lions Clubs’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The International Association of Lions Clubslessmore 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
  • IA
    International Association of Lions Clubs
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -1%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
District 5M-8 of the International Association of Lions

Provide administration for 74 clubs in minnesota with 2828 members

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2
International Association of Lions Club Lititz Lions and Leos Club

Non-profit community service group.

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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 10 District

Administration of distrct lions club

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7
International Association of Lions Clubs District 14K

Governor projects / blind projects

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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

To help club members with serving their communities.

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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
Lions International District 5 Se

Prevention of blindness

Health
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Multiple District 16 Lions Clubs International Assoc of Lions Clubs; 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.
05the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherLCICON2023BOSTON (Host Committee): $25,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS: $25,000 · OtherLIONS CLUB INTERNATIONAL MULTIPLE DISTRICT 27: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetINTL ASSN OF LIONS CLUBS PA STATE: $22,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUB: $22,500 over 2y, 4.8% 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 budgetMULTIPLE DISTRICT NO 33 LIONS CLUBS INT: $15,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetLIONS CLUB INTERNATIONAL: $15,000 over 1y, 21% 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 budgetLIONS INTERNATIONAL STATE OF OREGON: $15,000 over 1y, 19% 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
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 FoundationIL29.9× affinity12 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 The International Association of Lions Clubs funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The International Association of Lions Clubs. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%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
    5get 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 35 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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