· Private foundation
Whittier Lions Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k57 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $44,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,950 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,400 |
| SOPHIA RINCON | $4,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,400 |
| STATER BROS WHITTIER STORE #206 | $3,016 |
| CALIFORNIA HS ENTERTAINMENT UNIT | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 45 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, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IFINTERFAITH FOOD CENTER5× · 2017–2021 · $21k · revenue ×12
- CLCALIFORNIA LION FRIENDS IN SIGHT5× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +44%
- WAWhittier Area Literacy Council2× · 2018–2019 · $5k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- MDMULTIPLE DISTRICT FOUR-LIONS INTERNATIONALone grant, 2021 · $80k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $56k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $55k
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.
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.
The mission of the whittier regional symphony is to enrich the cultural life of the community it serves through admission-free concerts, to expand the musical knowledge of youth and adults, and to provide an outlet for the talents of…
Mission: we provide high quality healthcare without discrimination, and contribute to the health and well-being of our communities in an ethical, safe, and fiscally prudent manner in recognition of our charitable purpose.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 374 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Gene & Elaine Allen Foundation · BCM Foundation · PIH Health Whittier Hospital · Credit Union of Southern California · California Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Whittier Lions Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Whittier Lions Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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