Iowa · Nonprofit
LIONS YOUTH SOFTBALL
LIONS YOUTH SOFTBALL (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,961 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($3,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $111k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $65k
What Lions Youth Softball does
Mission
Lions Youth Softball is a youth sports training and development organization specializing in fast pitch softball for girls. The organization supports nearly 100 girls and their families from ages 8 to 16.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Lions Youth Softball is a youth sports training and development organization specializing in fast pitch softball for girls. The organization supports nearly 100 girls and their families form ages 8 to 16.
$138,487 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $138,487.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $41k to $62k (+52%).
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.
2% of LIONS YOUTH SOFTBALL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $818 → $2k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 YOUTH SOFTBALL’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 YOUTH SOFTBALL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 92% · 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — 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
LIONS YOUTH SOFTBALL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $211 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 YOUTH SOFTBALL's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LIONS YOUTH SOFTBALL
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 Iowa
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 YOUTH SOFTBALL: 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 YOUTH SOFTBALL?
- LIONS YOUTH SOFTBALL (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,961 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($3,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIONS YOUTH SOFTBALL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $3,961 in grants to LIONS YOUTH SOFTBALL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIONS YOUTH SOFTBALL?
- VERIZON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIONS YOUTH SOFTBALL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), 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