North Carolina · Nonprofit
NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED
NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED (North Carolina) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $609,895 to it, the largest being The Winston-Salem Foundation ($200,112). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED is better cushioned than half of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Underdown Family Foundationlocal
- Lions of Pennsylvania Foundationportfolio match
- Lions Clubs International Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
52% of NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $17k → $119k.
6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED’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
NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 76% · 2019 76% · 2020 52% · 2021 63% · 2022 59% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
50% of NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
92% of NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $270k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
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. Your 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Underdown Family FoundationlocalNC · funds 22 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
- The Harold H Bate Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brookreson Marie H Tuwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Delta Gamma Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Boston Center for Blind Children Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sharlene R Williams Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Catawba County United Way InclocalNC · funds 14 organizations near you
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 NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED: 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 NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED?
- NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED (North Carolina) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $609,895 to it, the largest being The Winston-Salem Foundation ($200,112). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $609,895 in grants to NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED?
- The Winston-Salem Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $200,112 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 19funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing