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The Littleton Lions Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $4,000 |
| DAN CARBONE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP | $2,000 |
| FORESIGHT SKI GUIDES | $1,000 |
| ROCKY MTN LIONS EYE INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $750 |
| INTERNATIONAL HEARING DOGS | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| DOCTORS CARE | $500 |
| INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICE | $500 |
| COLORADO LIONS KIDSIGHT PROGRAM | $300 |
| GRACEFUL FOUNDATION | $300 |
| ROCKY MTN LIONS EYE BANK | $300 |
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 (FY20–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CLCOLORADO LIONS CAMP5× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +137%
- FSFORESIGHT SKI GUIDES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +6%
- LDLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- CSCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $1k
- ASAPAPAHOE SANTA CLAUS SHOPone grant, 2022 · $500
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
A Shared Vision educates, inspires, and empowers families to nurture the development of their young children who are blind or visually impaired. We provide early intervention vision services in families' homes and community settings…
To assist the needy with eyeglasses, personal assistance,hearing assistance, and sight screening for low income children and various schools.
It is the specific mission of the Lions of Wyoming Foundation to provide quality programs and services to the people of Wyoming for the detection, treatment and rehabilitation of visual impairments and others with special needs. The…
Provide adaptive sports for the disabled.
Dog Rescue Dogs Unbroken supports Colorado dogs at higher risk for euthanasia evaluating their behavioral stability and applying training methods appropriate for their needs. The goal of helping each dog learn to make good choices in…
Provide assistance to children and adults with disabilities or special needs and their families.
Provide vision and hearing screening and corrective vision and hearing surgeries to individuals within arizona who economically are unable to afford such services.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
The Listen Foundation provides for and assists children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families, with access to a proven speech, language, and listening therapy method to help them achieve a life of independence. This includes…
Part i and part iii, line 1: anchor center for blind children is a nationally recognized leader in teaching children with vision, cortical visual, dual sensory (vision and hearing), and co-occurring disabilities during their most formative…
To deliver excellence in animal-assisted interventions (AAI) and enhance the health and wellness of people through AAI services, education & networking.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Bank and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 24 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 COLORADO LIONS CAMP ↗
- Who funds FORESIGHT SKI GUIDES INC ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds DOCTORS CARE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO LIONS KIDSIGHT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds PARAGON SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds Break Bread ↗
- Who funds Integrated Family Community Services ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIONS EYE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRACEFULL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIONS EYE BANK ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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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 Littleton Lions Foundation 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.
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