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LIONS OF ARLINGTON HEIGHTS FOUNDATION

LIONS OF ARLINGTON HEIGHTS FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being EQUITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($1,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$39k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$387k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Lions of Arlington Heights Foundation does

Mission

Support vision and hearing impaired

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Assist community residents in obtaining eye exams and eyeglasses and hearing tests and hearing aids. Support other charitable organizations with similar goals and those organizations that support community charities.

    $37,416 spentof which $32,027 as grants$51,761 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $37,416.

02The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($15k) Expenses 100 ($12k) Net assets 100 ($249k)2018 Revenue 175 ($27k) Expenses 189 ($22k) Net assets 111 ($275k)2019 Revenue 216 ($33k) Expenses 172 ($20k) Net assets 118 ($295k)2020 Revenue 145 ($22k) Expenses 175 ($20k) Net assets 127 ($316k)2021 Revenue 69 ($11k) Expenses 341 ($40k) Net assets 157 ($390k)2022 Revenue 1524 ($233k) Expenses 232 ($27k) Net assets 155 ($385k)2023 Revenue 213 ($33k) Expenses 292 ($34k) Net assets 154 ($383k)2024 Revenue 234 ($36k) Expenses 321 ($37k) Net assets 154 ($384k)2025 Revenue 254 ($39k) Expenses 308 ($36k) Net assets 156 ($387k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (254)Expenses (308)Net assets (156)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 2020 to 2021, from $318k to $390k (+23%).

$249k
$275k
$295k
$318k
$390k
$385k
$383k
$384k
$387k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of LIONS OF ARLINGTON HEIGHTS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’17
$5k
’18
$13k
’19
$2k
’20
−$29k
’21
$206k
’22
−$1k
’23
−$2k
’24
$3k
’25
4.0
months of
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.

2022202320242025
Listed5586
Joined·+2+5+0
No longer listed·222
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500 → $750.

Funder
'21
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of LIONS OF ARLINGTON HEIGHTS 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

LIONS OF ARLINGTON HEIGHTS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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

75%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 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

LIONS OF ARLINGTON HEIGHTS FOUNDATION draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.

IL
NY

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

’21
’23
Illinois 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

LIONS OF ARLINGTON HEIGHTS FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve4.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like LIONS OF ARLINGTON HEIGHTS FOUNDATION

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In Illinois

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05Profile & 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

10
board members
320%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

76%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIONS OF ARLINGTON HEIGHTS 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 OF ARLINGTON HEIGHTS FOUNDATION?
LIONS OF ARLINGTON HEIGHTS FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being EQUITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($1,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LIONS OF ARLINGTON HEIGHTS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,000 in grants to LIONS OF ARLINGTON HEIGHTS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LIONS OF ARLINGTON HEIGHTS FOUNDATION?
EQUITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIONS OF ARLINGTON HEIGHTS 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 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