How much did WARDS CORNER LIONS CLUB CHARITY grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of WARDS CORNER LIONS CLUB CHARITY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

unrestircted

2020

unrestircted

2021

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2022

hampton roads

2023

—

2024

tidewater

2025

tidewater

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$635k

Total assets

Largest grants

REACH$2,500
FOOD BANK OF SE VIRGINIA$2,000
EGGLESTON SERVICES INC$2,000
FORKIDS INC$1,500
ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION$1,000
OCEAN VIEW LITTLE LEAGUE$1,000
NORFOLK CRIME LINE$1,000
ST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILD$1,000
NEXT STEP TO SUCCESS$1,000
TOGETHER WE CAN FOUNDATION$1,000
THE EGGLESTON FOUNDATION$1,000
LGBT LIFE CENTER$1,000
SARAH MICHELLE PETERSON FOUNDATION$1,000
ANIMAL RESOURCES OF TIDEWATER$1,000
HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY$1,000

02The need

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 (FY18–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$191k · 31 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$191k

$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%

+46%

Still filing today

39%

22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

FI
FORKIDS INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $30k · revenue +10%
LF
LEE'S FRIENDS
7× · 2019–2025 · $9k · revenue +18%
AC
ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION
8× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +102%

Funded once

SA
SALVATION ARMY HAMPTON ROADS
one grant, 2022 · $5k
LC
LIONS CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $2k
UW
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH HAMPTON RDS
one grant, 2019 · $2k

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.

Transitions Family Violence Services

The mission of transitions family violence services (tfvs) is to build safe and healthy families on the virginia peninsula by providing services to adult and child victims of domestic violence and human trafficking. we work to increase…

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Bridges to Independence

Bridges mission is to break cycles of generational poverty by providing emergency shelter, counseling, and financial assistance for persons from arlington, virginia.

Housing & Shelter

Help and Emergency Response

To provide shelter and to engage in dedicated efforts to eliminate domestic violence. the organization provides advocacy, support, and education to those who have affected by domestic violence in the cities of chesapeake and portsmouth,…

Human Services

Sfc Virginia

The sfc is organized around connecting foster families and adopters in the fredericksburg area and beyond with dogs and cats who have found themselves in a shelter. virginia is a regional leader in the no-kill movement, but we have a long…

Animals

People Incorporated of Virginia

To provide opportunities for economically disadvantaged people to reach their goals in order to enhance their lives, their families, and their communities.

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Veterans Bridge Home Inc

To connect, lead, and advocate in communities to ensure service members, veterans, and their families thrive.

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Leashes of Valor

Leashes of valor is a national nonprofit that provides highly-trained service dogs to post-9/11 veterans to help with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), traumatic brain injury (tbi) or military sexual trauma (mst), an…

Public Benefit

Voices Against Violence

To break the cycle of violence by providing comprehensive services for all victims and survivors and by creating social change through education and action.

Human Services

Northern Virginia Resource Center for

To empower deaf and hard of hearing individuals through education and community involvement.

Health

Elevate Early Education Inc

Since 2005, we have been working to improve equitable access to quality for all children in the region of south hampton roads and virginia. 40% of virginia's kindergartners are not ready academically and socially. too many children are…

Education

Virginia Community Action

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services

Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless Inc

The coalition works collaboratively to create and advance lasting solutions to prevent and end homelessness in rhode island.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leader Dogs for the Blind. 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

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/17

Grantees still filing

11/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$131,500Housing & Shelter$33,000Education$17,500Community Improvement$14,750Human Services$8,500Health$1,500Recreation & Sports$1,000

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.

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.

Hampton Roads Community FoundationVA34.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Sentara Health · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Landmark Foundation · The Blocker Foundation · Langley for Families - · Townebank Foundation · The Agena Foundation Inc · Lions Club of Norfolk Foundation · Miller Oil Foundation · The Townsend Family 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 organisation WARDS CORNER LIONS CLUB CHARITY 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 moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ELIZABETH RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~40 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 814431199 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ELIZABETH RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 40 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Wards Corner Lions Club Charity?

Find your warmest path to Wards Corner Lions Club Charity through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WARDS CORNER LIONS CLUB CHARITY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Wards Corner Lions Club Charity?

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WARDS CORNER LIONS CLUB CHARITY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Wards Corner Lions Club Charity?

More from the funding graph