Tennessee · Nonprofit
MIDDLE TENN LIONS SIGHT SERVICE
MIDDLE TENN LIONS SIGHT SERVICE (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,500 to it, the largest being International Association of Lions Clubs ($9,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Charity Circle of Murfreesborolocal
- Lions of Pennsylvania Foundationportfolio match
- Lions Clubs International Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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 MIDDLE TENN LIONS SIGHT SERVICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
100% of MIDDLE TENN LIONS SIGHT SERVICE's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- Charity Circle of MurfreesborolocalTN · funds 35 organizations near you
- Lions of Pennsylvania Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lions Clubs International Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northeast Pennsylvania Lions Service Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The International Association of Lions Clubsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of West Tennesseinc Starksportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Loudon County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Smile 180 Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alabamas Mtns Rivers and Valleys Rsc Conservation and Devel Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Optometry Giving Sightportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Roane County United Way Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Athens Federal Foundationportfolio 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 MIDDLE TENN LIONS SIGHT SERVICE
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIDDLE TENN LIONS SIGHT SERVICE: 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 MIDDLE TENN LIONS SIGHT SERVICE?
- MIDDLE TENN LIONS SIGHT SERVICE (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,500 to it, the largest being International Association of Lions Clubs ($9,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDDLE TENN LIONS SIGHT SERVICE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $9,500 in grants to MIDDLE TENN LIONS SIGHT SERVICE.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDDLE TENN LIONS SIGHT SERVICE?
- International Association of Lions Clubs is the largest funder on record, with $9,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDDLE TENN LIONS SIGHT SERVICE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing