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BLUFFTON LIONS FOUNDATION

BLUFFTON LIONS FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,750 to it, the largest being THE FINDLAY-HANCOCK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$81k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$115k
Net assets
$205k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Bluffton Lions Foundation does

Mission

Provide service and support to the community

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Bluffton Lions Foundation solicited contributions and conducted fund raising activities to raise money for the construction of public pathways in the village of bluffton ohio. The pathways are used by thousands of individuals, promote health, and improve safety.

    $118,263 spentof which $118,263 as grants
    94% of program spending
  2. Bluffton Lions Foundation soliciated contributions and conducted fund raising activities to provide contributions to international and regional lions causes and other local charitable organizations.

    $4,800 spentof which $4,800 as grants
    4% of program spending
  3. Bluffton Lions Foundation solicited contributions and conducted fund raising activities to provide college scholarships for graduating local high school students.

    $3,000 spentof which $3,000 as grants
    2% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $126,063.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($126k) Expenses 100 ($24k) Net assets 100 ($164k)2023 Revenue 85 ($107k) Expenses 53 ($12k) Net assets 158 ($259k)2024 Revenue 27 ($34k) Expenses 533 ($126k) Net assets 102 ($167k)2025 Revenue 64 ($81k) Expenses 181 ($43k) Net assets 125 ($205k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (64)Expenses (181)Net assets (125)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $164k to $259k (+58%).

$164k
$259k
$167k
$205k
2022202320242025
Total assets

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of BLUFFTON LIONS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,568 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$102k
’22
$95k
’23
−$92k
’24
$38k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of BLUFFTON LIONS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

BLUFFTON LIONS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BLUFFTON LIONS FOUNDATION.

65%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of BLUFFTON LIONS FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $115k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BLUFFTON LIONS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,984 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin47% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−14% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,984 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BLUFFTON LIONS FOUNDATION?
BLUFFTON LIONS FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,750 to it, the largest being THE FINDLAY-HANCOCK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BLUFFTON LIONS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $114,750 in grants to BLUFFTON LIONS FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of BLUFFTON LIONS FOUNDATION?
THE FINDLAY-HANCOCK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BLUFFTON LIONS FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing