South Carolina · Nonprofit
Lions Sports
Lions Sports (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200 to it, the largest being PUBLIX SUPER MARKETS CHARITIES INC ($200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $47k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $200
- Net assets
- $7k
What Lions Sports does
Mission
Lions Sports exists to grow and develop our youth in their faith, in their community, in sportsmanship, and in their competitiveness through their team, character, and competition.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Baseball and Softball Teams: Traveled across multiple states during the 2024 season, building relationships through the game and witnessing several players, on our team and others, come to know Christ.
$37,767 spent83% of program spendingLion Lovies: Donated nearly 100 Lion Lovies with personalized Christmas cards to Prisma Children?s Hospital, letting each child know they were loved and prayed for.
$706 spent2% of program spendingBible Outreach: Distributed close to 1,000 Bibles to youth players, coaches, umpires, and grounds crew, resulting in several individuals coming to faith in Christ.
$6,888 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $45,361.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Willie Phillips
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Lions Sports’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.
Where its funders are
Lions Sports draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state in all.
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.
Against its field
Lions Sports receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200 to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,682 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Lions Sports
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
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 Sports: 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 Sports?
- Lions Sports (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200 to it, the largest being PUBLIX SUPER MARKETS CHARITIES INC ($200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lions Sports have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $200 in grants to Lions Sports.
- Who is the largest funder of Lions Sports?
- PUBLIX SUPER MARKETS CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lions Sports find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 1 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