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The Littleton Lions Foundation at a glance

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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.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$33kFood & Nutrition$25kHealth$14kHuman Services$9kEducation$8kAnimals$3kHousing & Shelter$1kReligion$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$919k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEALS ON WHEELS$4,000
DAN CARBONE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP$2,000
ROCKY MTN LIONS EYE INSTITUTE$1,000
FORESIGHT SKI GUIDES$1,000
LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND$750
INTERNATIONAL HEARING DOGS$500
Individual grant recipient$500
DOCTORS CARE$500
INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICE$500
ROCKY MTN LIONS EYE BANK$300
COLORADO LIONS KIDSIGHT PROGRAM$300
GRACEFUL FOUNDATION$300
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%FORESIGHT SKI GUIDES: $750 → 12%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%FORESIGHT SKI GUIDES: $750 → 12%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $750 → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $750 → 8%INTERNATIONAL HEARING DOG: $500 → 10%INTERNATIONAL HEARING DOG: $500 → 10%INTERNATIONAL HEARING DOGS: $500 → 10%INTERNATIONAL HEARING DOGS: $500 → 10%INTERNATIONAL HEARING DOGS: $500 → 10%INTERNATIONAL HEARING DOGS: $500 → 10%INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICE: $500 → 8%INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICE: $500 → 8%INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICE: $500 → 8%INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICE: $500 → 8%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$92k · 18 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
5

Total granted

$92k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+2%

Still filing today

61%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • CL
    COLORADO LIONS CAMP
    5× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +77%
  • FS
    FORESIGHT SKI GUIDES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +96%
  • LD
    LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • CS
    COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • AS
    APAPAHOE SANTA CLAUS SHOP
    one grant, 2022 · $500
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
A Shared Vision Partners in Pediatric Blindness and Visual Imp

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…

Health
2
Denver Lions Foundation

To assist the needy with eyeglasses, personal assistance,hearing assistance, and sight screening for low income children and various schools.

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3
Lions of Wyoming Foundation

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…

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4
Colorado Discover Ability

Provide adaptive sports for the disabled.

Recreation & Sports
5
Dogs Unbroken

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…

Animals
6
Disability Services of Colorado

Provide assistance to children and adults with disabilities or special needs and their families.

Health
7
Accessible Alpine Adventure Tours
Health
8
Arizona Lions Vision and Hearing Foundation of Md 21

Provide vision and hearing screening and corrective vision and hearing surgeries to individuals within arizona who economically are unable to afford such services.

Health
9
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
10
Listen Foundation Inc

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…

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11
Delta Gamma Anchor Center for Blind Children

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…

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12
Denver Pet Partners

To deliver excellence in animal-assisted interventions (AAI) and enhance the health and wellness of people through AAI services, education & networking.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Bank; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEALS ON WHEELS: $22,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELSDAN CARBONE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP: $6,500 · OtherDAN CARBONE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIPBreak Bread: $2,500 · OtherBreak BreadROCKY MTN LIONS EYE INSTITUTE: $2,300 · OtherLITTLETON LIONS CLUB: $2,000 · OtherCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,800 · Other+8 more: $6,750 · Other+8 moreCOLORADO LIONS CAMP: $25,750 · Recreation & SportsCOLORADO LIONS CAMPFORESIGHT SKI GUIDES INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesFORESIGHT SKI GUID…LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5,500 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR TH…PARAGON SERVICE DOGS: $3,000 · Human ServicesPARAGON SERVICE DO…Integrated Family Community Services: $2,000 · Human ServicesIntegrated Family …DOCTORS CARE: $5,000 · HealthDOCTORS CARECOLORADO LIONS KIDSIGHT PROGRAM INC: $3,700 · HealthCOLORADO LIO…ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIONS EYE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $1,250 · HealthROCKY MOUNTA…American Diabetes Association: $500 · Health+1 more: $250 · Health
Other$43,850Recreation & Sports$25,750Human Services$16,000Health$10,700

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLORADO LIONS CAMP: $25,750 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetFORESIGHT SKI GUIDES INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDOCTORS CARE: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO LIONS KIDSIGHT PROGRAM INC: $3,700 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetPARAGON SERVICE DOGS: $3,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBreak Bread: $2,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetIntegrated Family Community Services: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN LIONS EYE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGRACEFULL FOUNDATION: $1,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN LIONS EYE BANK: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Telluray Foundati…Xcel Energy FoundationFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO22.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Telluray Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Littleton Lions Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Littleton Lions Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 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-PF 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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