Montana · Nonprofit
Ennis Lions Charities Inc dba Ennis Lions Club
Ennis Lions Charities Inc dba Ennis Lions Club (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,150 to it, the largest being Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $862k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $993k
What Ennis Lions Charities Inc dba Ennis Lions Club does
Mission
Civic and social services; maintaining a city park and kids fishing pond.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
COMMUNITY BETTERMENTProgram sponsorship, contributions, and donations.
$33,559 spent62% of program spendingENNIS LIONS CLUB PARKPark repair, maintenance and improvements.
$13,249 spent25% of program spendingEDUCATION SCHOLARSHIPSScholarships for educational purposes.
$7,100 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $53,908.
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 2024 to 2025, from $204k to $993k (+386%).
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.
94% of Ennis Lions Charities Inc dba Ennis Lions Club’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% 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.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $150 → $1k.
From the IRS filings of Ennis Lions Charities Inc dba Ennis Lions Club’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
Ennis Lions Charities Inc dba Ennis Lions Club leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 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
Ennis Lions Charities Inc dba Ennis Lions Club draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 2 states 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
Ennis Lions Charities Inc dba Ennis Lions Club holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Ennis Lions Charities Inc dba Ennis Lions Club
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Ennis Lions Charities Inc dba Ennis Lions Club?
- Ennis Lions Charities Inc dba Ennis Lions Club (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,150 to it, the largest being Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ennis Lions Charities Inc dba Ennis Lions Club have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,150 in grants to Ennis Lions Charities Inc dba Ennis Lions Club.
- Who is the largest funder of Ennis Lions Charities Inc dba Ennis Lions Club?
- Zeller-Knowles 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 Ennis Lions Charities Inc dba Ennis Lions Club find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing