California · Nonprofit
BURLINGAME LIONS CHARITIES
BURLINGAME LIONS CHARITIES (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $600 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $600
- Net assets
- $426k
What Burlingame Lions Charities does
Mission
The specific purpose for which the organization was formed are as follows:(1) to benefit the community by encouraging gits to the organization for allocation to:section 501(c)(3) organization for scientific, education or charitable purposes; or; the city of burlingame or any department thereof, for exclusively public purposes.(2) to stimulate an awareness of the needs of the community and to inform of the needs and how they can be met with charitable contributions.(3) to assist in harmonizing and making more efficient the work of charitable organization in burlingame, and in other communities in the county of san mateo, california, by cooperating with and assisting such organizations, and by receiving by gift, will, or otherwise, money or other proper means and distributing it as may be deemed best for the promotion of charity in such communities; and to do any and all other things necessary or proper in connection with or incidental to any of the foregoing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Other grants and achievements
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $214k to $362k (+70%).
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.
100% of BURLINGAME LIONS CHARITIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $400 → $200.
From the IRS filings of BURLINGAME LIONS CHARITIES’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.
Where its funders are
BURLINGAME LIONS CHARITIES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Against its field
BURLINGAME LIONS CHARITIES's revenue fell 66% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BURLINGAME LIONS CHARITIES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BURLINGAME LIONS CHARITIES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BURLINGAME LIONS CHARITIES?
- BURLINGAME LIONS CHARITIES (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $600 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BURLINGAME LIONS CHARITIES have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $600 in grants to BURLINGAME LIONS CHARITIES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BURLINGAME LIONS CHARITIES?
- The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BURLINGAME LIONS CHARITIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing