Illinois · Nonprofit
Lions Clubs International Foundation
Lions Clubs International Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 134 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,343,398 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($744,811). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $71M
- Funders on record
- 134
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $435M
What Lions Clubs International Foundation does
Mission
To empower Lions Clubs, volunteers, and partners to improve health and well-being, strengthen communities, and support those in need through humanitarian services and grants that impact lives globally, and encourage peace and international understanding.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Humanitarian - Through LCIF's matching grant and district and club community impact grant, Lions can support humanitarian activities and initiatives. LCIF's humanitarian grants empower Lions to address unmet health needs and support at-risk, vulnerable populations around the world. LCIF's humanitarian funding also supports partnership efforts such as vision screenings and programs for athletes through the Special Olympics Opening Eyes partnership and school-based feeding programs through the World Food Program USA.
$16,888,375 spentof which $15,033,444 as grants39% of program spendingYouth - LCIF provides youth and young adults opportunities to succeed. The Lions Quest program provides young people and their educators with tools to make positive choices, resist drugs and alcohol, learn through service, and become healthy young adults.
$8,091,060 spentof which $5,097,247 as grants$86,032 earned by the program19% of program spendingDisaster relief - LCIF provides disaster grants to Lions from the LCIF General Disaster Fund. Grants are intended to support Lions with disaster preparedness, relief, and recovery efforts following natural disasters.
$7,513,975 spentof which $6,901,560 as grants17% of program spendingVision - Lions are a world leader in the effort to prevent avoidable blindness and assist people who are blind or visually impaired. Through partnerships and grants, LCIF funds efforts to provide local capacity building, training, screening, diagnostic equipment, medications and treatments, and rehabilitation projects.
$5,045,256 spentof which $4,779,950 as grants12% of program spendingHunger - Grants support major equipment and infrastructure projects focused on alleviating hunger.
$3,513,029 spentof which $3,260,988 as grants8% of program spendingChildhood cancer - Grants improve the quality of life for children receiving cancer treatment and their families.
$1,064,715 spentof which $980,702 as grants2% of program spendingDiabetes - Grants empower Lions to implement large-scale diabetes screening events, youth diabetes camps, workforce training, equipment and infrastructure projects to help individuals identify and manage diabetes.
$642,752 spentof which $563,160 as grants1% of program spendingEnvironment - Through LCIF's matching grant and district and club community impact grant, Lions can support environmental activities and initiatives, including but not limited to tree planting, waste management and recycling, and community clean-up events.
$300,595 spentof which $251,956 as grants1% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $43,059,757.
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 2020 to 2021, from $316M to $376M (+19%).
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.
80% of Lions Clubs International Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Dr Patti Hill
LCIF Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose $171k → $810k.
30 of 134 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $225k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Lions Clubs International Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Lions Clubs International Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Lions Clubs International Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 134 funders by total. 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
Lions Clubs International Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
70% 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 Lions Clubs International Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 36% · 2019 34% · 2020 36% · 2021 22% · 2022 24% · 2023 19% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
28% of Lions Clubs International Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Lions Clubs International Foundation draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 34 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 states 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
Lions Clubs International Foundation's funding base is broadening — from 19 funders to 46 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Lions Clubs International Foundation
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- LCIF India · exempt
- Perpetual Trust (2) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lions Clubs International Foundation: 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 Lions Clubs International Foundation?
- Lions Clubs International Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 134 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,343,398 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($744,811). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lions Clubs International Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 134 organizations giving $5,343,398 in grants to Lions Clubs International Foundation, 67 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lions Clubs International Foundation?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $744,811 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lions Clubs International Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 134 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing