North Dakota · Nonprofit
Lions Foundation of North Dakota Inc
Lions Foundation of North Dakota Inc (North Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,031 to it, the largest being NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,681). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $95k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $908k
What Lions Foundation of North Dakota Inc does
Mission
Charitable and educational project funding
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Providing grants to other Lions Clubs within North Dakota including editing and distributing the ND Lion Newsletter.
$36,011 spent84% of program spendingThe video magnifier program leases magnifier machines to imparied individuals that allow them to read fine print. During the year approximately 106 individuals/facilities made use of Program-provided video magnifier equipment.
$4,708 spent$21,260 earned by the program11% of program spendingSight for Kids is a vision screening program for children pre-school and school age. The screening determines the presence of eye disorders including far and near-sightedness, astigmatism, anisopmetropia and more.During the year 22,234 children were screened and approximately 12% were referred to an eye care professional.
$1,505 spent4% of program spendingEyeglass Recycling collects, cleans and stores usable recycled eyeglasses. Trained volunteers sort, clean and determine the prescription strengths of the glasses. The glasses are stored until they are required for eyeglass dispensing missions. Eye care professionals and trained volunteers perform vision screenings and dispense the appropriate recycled glasses free of charge to children and adults in need. During the year approximately 10,000 pairs of used eyeglasses were received, cleaned, and catalogued by Program volunteers. Approximately 8,000 pairs were subsequently donated.
$585 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $42,809.
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 2023 to 2024, from $609k to $863k (+42%).
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.
44% of Lions Foundation of North Dakota Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $4k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Lions Foundation of North Dakota Inc’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
Lions Foundation of North Dakota Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
71% 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 North Dakota Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 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
71% of Lions Foundation of North Dakota Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from North Dakota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Foundation of North Dakota Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Lions Foundation of North Dakota Inc
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 North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lions Foundation of North Dakota 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Lions Foundation of North Dakota Inc?
- Lions Foundation of North Dakota Inc (North Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,031 to it, the largest being NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,681). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Lions Foundation of North Dakota Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15,031 in grants to Lions Foundation of North Dakota Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Lions Foundation of North Dakota Inc?
- NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,681 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lions Foundation of North Dakota Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 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