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HAMEL LIONS FOUNDATION

HAMEL LIONS FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,261 to it, the largest being HAMEL RODEO INC ($338,061). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$122k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$338k
Net assets
$47k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What Hamel Lions Foundation does

Mission

To provide for Public good and humanitarian service.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Hamel Athletic Club. Benefits hundreds of amateur baseball players in the Hamel Athletic program.

    $11,000 spent
    10% of program spending
  2. Lions Community International Fund.

    $7,000 spent
    6% of program spending
  3. Corcoran Lions donations to various food shelves. Benefits hundreds of needy individuals in the surrounding community.

    $11,000 spent
    10% of program spending
  4. Support for charity programs Scholarships and Lions International Charities.

    $79,341 spent
    73% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $108,341.

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 ($145k) Expenses 100 ($139k) Net assets 100 ($78k)2023 Revenue 118 ($171k) Expenses 172 ($239k) Net assets 13 ($10k)2024 Revenue 137 ($199k) Expenses 123 ($170k) Net assets 50 ($39k)2025 Revenue 84 ($122k) Expenses 81 ($112k) Net assets 60 ($47k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (84)Expenses (81)Net assets (60)Peer revenue range

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 $114k to $135k (+18%).

$114k
$135k
$153k
$151k
2022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

56% of HAMEL LIONS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 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.

$6k
’22
−$68k
’23
$29k
’24
$10k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $19k → $72k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
Hamel Rodeo Incunclassified
$338k
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of HAMEL 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

HAMEL LIONS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 HAMEL LIONS FOUNDATION.

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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

100% of HAMEL LIONS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HAMEL LIONS FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin9% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

99%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds HAMEL LIONS FOUNDATION?
HAMEL LIONS FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,261 to it, the largest being HAMEL RODEO INC ($338,061). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HAMEL LIONS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $338,261 in grants to HAMEL LIONS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HAMEL LIONS FOUNDATION?
HAMEL RODEO INC is the largest funder on record, with $338,061 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HAMEL LIONS FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing