North Carolina · Nonprofit
NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED
NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED (North Carolina) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $677,095 to it, the largest being The Winston-Salem Foundation ($200,112). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $677k
- Net assets
- $6.6M
What North Carolina Lions Incorporated does
Mission
Charitable activities and services for visually impaired families in north carolina.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Camp dogwood provides vacation and recreation facilities for the visually impaired and their families.
$1,253,165 spent$281,780 earned by the program75% of program spendingMedical research support is provided through grants to the university of north carolina school of medicine, duke university eye center and bowman gray school of medicine.
$14,912 spent1% of program spendingVision screening support is provided to the county health departments throughout north carolina for conducting glaucoma, diabetes screening and restoration of vision expenses.
$297,900 spent18% of program spendingPublic information program provides info to the public regarding needs of the visually handicapped & impaired with information about services available to them. Hearing aid bank provides hearing aids for the needy by repairing donated used hearing aids. Expenses 34,888 nc eye and human tissue bank is a clearinghouse for eye wills, eyes and other human organs expenses 15,194 educational grants provide college scholarships to sighted children of blind parents expenses 5,628 canes and radios provide white cane walking sticks and radios to blind individuals expenses 19,039 including grants of 13,411 direct services provides support through grants to governor morehead school, division of services to the blind, radio reading services and other services to the blind and others expenses 23,456 including grants of 5,000 matching funds allocated to all services expenses 6,181 including grants of 553
$104,386 spentof which $18,964 as grants6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,670,363.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6.1M to $6.7M (+11%).
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
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $17k → $119k.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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). Top 21 of 22 funders by total. 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 30% of grant income and the top three 71%; 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; 36% 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
97% 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 states 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
NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED
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 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED?
- NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED (North Carolina) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $677,095 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 22 organizations giving $677,095 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 22 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