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INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS 9016 BERLIN LIONS CLUB

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS 9016 BERLIN LIONS CLUB (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $846,951 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS 9016 BERLIN LIONS CLUB ($731,743). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.2M
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$847k
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 83%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($534k) Expenses 100 ($537k) Net assets 100 ($649k)2018 Revenue 143 ($762k) Expenses 124 ($668k) Net assets 114 ($743k)2019 Revenue 140 ($748k) Expenses 127 ($681k) Net assets 125 ($811k)2020 Revenue 131 ($697k) Expenses 115 ($619k) Net assets 137 ($889k)2021 Revenue 17 ($89k) Expenses 34 ($185k) Net assets 122 ($793k)2022 Revenue 163 ($868k) Expenses 134 ($719k) Net assets 145 ($942k)2023 Revenue 205 ($1.1M) Expenses 166 ($890k) Net assets 176 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 236 ($1.3M) Expenses 176 ($947k) Net assets 224 ($1.5M)2025 Revenue 225 ($1.2M) Expenses 202 ($1.1M) Net assets 242 ($1.6M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (225)Expenses (202)Net assets (242)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’17
$94k
’18
$68k
’19
$78k
’20
−$96k
’21
$148k
’22
$204k
’23
$310k
’24
$117k
’25
6.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $66k → $130k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1

From the IRS filings of INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS 9016 BERLIN LIONS CLUB’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS 9016 BERLIN LIONS CLUB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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

86%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

Where its funders are

100% of INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS 9016 BERLIN LIONS CLUB's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

CT

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS 9016 BERLIN LIONS CLUB

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Connecticut

Berlin Lions Charities Inc86%International Association of Lions 65718 23a District81%Lions Club of Norfolk Connecticut Inc81%Lions Club of Danbury Inc80%Lion of Ct Incorporated80%Newtown Lions Club Inc80%Friends of Berlin Animal Control79%Lebanon Volunteer Fire Department Inc78%

Nationally

International Association of Lions 360289%International Association of Lions Club87%Intl Assn of Lions Clubs Pa State86%International Association of Lions86%International Association of Lions Clubs 7700 Poulsbo86%International Association of Lions Clubs86%Berlin Lions Charities Inc86%Intl Assoc of Lions - Greenville85%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Berlin Lions Charities · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS 9016 BERLIN LIONS CLUB: 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 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS 9016 BERLIN LIONS CLUB?
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS 9016 BERLIN LIONS CLUB (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $846,951 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS 9016 BERLIN LIONS CLUB ($731,743). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS 9016 BERLIN LIONS CLUB have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $846,951 in grants to INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS 9016 BERLIN LIONS CLUB, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS 9016 BERLIN LIONS CLUB?
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS 9016 BERLIN LIONS CLUB is the largest funder on record, with $731,743 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS 9016 BERLIN LIONS CLUB find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 2funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing