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Wards Corner Lions Club Charity Foundation Inc
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of WARDS CORNER LIONS CLUB CHARITY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REACH | $2,500 |
| EGGLESTON SERVICES INC | $2,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF SE VIRGINIA | $2,000 |
| FORKIDS INC | $1,500 |
| OCEAN VIEW LITTLE LEAGUE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| LEE'S FRIENDS | $1,000 |
| NEXT STEP TO SUCCESS | $1,000 |
| SARAH MICHELLE PETERSON FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| NORFOLK CRIME LINE | $1,000 |
| NORFOLK CASA INC | $1,000 |
| TOGETHER WE CAN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ANIMAL RESOURCES OF TIDEWATER | $1,000 |
| ST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILD | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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 +26% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- FIFORKIDS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +48%
- FOFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +90%
- RFREACH FOUNDATION INC (REACH ENRICHES ALL CHILDREN)7× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +491%
Funded once
- SASALVATION ARMY HAMPTON ROADSone grant, 2022 · $5k
- LCLions Clubs International Foundationone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +14%
- UWUnited Way of South Hampton Roadsone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -40%
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.
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…
The Barry Robinson Center offers programs to improve the lives of children and their families.
Safe harbor provides the support that survivors of sexual and domestic violence and human trafficking need to overcome their crisis and to transform their lives.
The women's resource center empowers survivors by providing trauma-informed services with equity and compassion while working collaboratively with the community to eliminate the root causes of interpersonal abuse.
The Northern Virginia Veterans Association is a non-profit that personally coordinates services for our most vulnerable veterans and spouses at no cost to a vast system of community resources addressing needs that support their quality of…
Access partnership facilitates the connection between those with health care needs and available resources. vision is that all residents of hampton roads can obtain the health care that they need to achieve personal wellness. focus is…
To provide shelter and to engage in dedicated efforts to eliminate domestic violence. the organization provides advocacy, support, and education to those who have been affected by domestic violence in the cities of chesapeake and…
The mission of the chas foundation is: to advocate for individuals living with mental illness; to address the stigma associated with people living with a mental illness; to streamline access to effective treatment; to save the lives of…
Bridges' mission is to break cycles of generational poverty by providing emergency shelter, counseling, and financial assistance for persons from arlington, virginia. bridges to independence also operates the bonder and amanda johnson…
Tracing its roots to the 1980s, the virginia housing alliance (vha) is the statewide leader in expanding housing opportunities, strengthening the capacity of affordable housing and homelessness service organizations, and advancing…
The up center has provided a safety net for the hampton roads community for 142 years. presently, we impact approximately 10,000 people each year. our mission is to partner with children, families, and communities to improve lives and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
22 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. 22 of the 45 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 FORKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds REACH FOUNDATION INC (REACH ENRICHES ALL CHILDREN) ↗
- Who funds ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lees Friends ↗
- Who funds LIONS OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELIZABETH RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds EDMARC INC ↗
- Who funds Samaritan House Inc ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE CAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lions Clubs International Foundation ↗
- Who funds United Way of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds Next Step to Success ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESOURCES OF TIDEWATER ↗
- Who funds NORFOLK CASA INC ↗
- Who funds TIDEWATER WOODEN BOAT WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SARAH MICHELLE PETERSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNION MISSION ↗
- Who funds LGBT LIFE CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Sentara Health · Townebank Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Landmark Foundation · The Blocker Foundation · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Sterzing Charitable Trust · Miller Oil Foundation · Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation · Dollar Bank 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 Wards Corner Lions Club Charity Foundation Inc 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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