North Carolina · Nonprofit
DURHAM LIONS CHARITABLE FUND
DURHAM LIONS CHARITABLE FUND (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,010 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY FOUNDATION INC ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $233k
What Durham Lions Charitable Fund does
Mission
Lions club charitable activities
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Funded and maintained a building that provides free usage for durham boy and girl scouts and local sight challenged groups.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $10.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 DURHAM LIONS CHARITABLE FUND’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
DURHAM LIONS CHARITABLE FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“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
DURHAM LIONS CHARITABLE FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
DURHAM LIONS CHARITABLE FUND receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like DURHAM LIONS CHARITABLE FUND
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DURHAM LIONS CHARITABLE FUND?
- DURHAM LIONS CHARITABLE FUND (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,010 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY FOUNDATION INC ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DURHAM LIONS CHARITABLE FUND have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $2,010 in grants to DURHAM LIONS CHARITABLE FUND.
- Who is the largest funder of DURHAM LIONS CHARITABLE FUND?
- MORGAN STANLEY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DURHAM LIONS CHARITABLE FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 3 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