Arizona · Nonprofit
LIONS FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC
LIONS FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC (Arizona) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,726 to it, the largest being SCOTTSDALE ACTIVE 20 30 FOUNDATION ($45,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LIONS FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,426 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,426 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Thunderbirds Charitiesshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Charro Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- BHHS Legacy Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
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.
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.
58% of LIONS FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $13k → $11.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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: $171k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Tucson Lions Senior Citizens Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LIONS FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of LIONS FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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 FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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
98% 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 FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 96% · 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. 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 LIONS FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
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.
- Thunderbirds Charitiesshared funderslocalportfolio matchAZ · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · funds 301 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Charro Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAZ · backs 13 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- BHHS Legacy Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchAZ · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · funds 167 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- John F Long Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchAZ · funds 143 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Thunderbirdslocalportfolio matchAZ · funds 97 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Executive Council Charitiesshared funderslocalAZ · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · funds 82 organizations near you
- The Ellie & Les Hayt Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Surplus Line Association of Arizona Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wilhoit Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kemper & Ethel Marley Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ingebritson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia G Piper Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 LIONS FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Greater Tucson Lions Senir Citizens · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIONS FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LIONS FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC?
- LIONS FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC (Arizona) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,726 to it, the largest being SCOTTSDALE ACTIVE 20 30 FOUNDATION ($45,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIONS FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $56,726 in grants to LIONS FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIONS FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC?
- SCOTTSDALE ACTIVE 20 30 FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIONS FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing