Washington · Nonprofit
Northwest Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center
Northwest Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $632 to it, the largest being PUGET SOUND ENERGY FOUNDATION ($500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Northwest Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,237 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,237 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
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.
- Thurston County Economic Development Coulocal
- Lions Clubs International Foundationportfolio match
- The International Association of Lions Clubsportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $250 → $34.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Northwest Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center’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
Northwest Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Northwest Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $132 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.
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.
- Thurston County Economic Development CoulocalWA · funds 643 organizations near you
- Lions Clubs International Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The International Association of Lions Clubsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northeast Pennsylvania Lions Service Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lions of Pennsylvania Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 20 20 Questportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rotary International District 5080portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alcon Cares Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bay Area Sportsmans Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rotary International District 5030portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lewis-Clark Valley Healthcare 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 Northwest Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
84%
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 Northwest Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center: 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 Northwest Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center?
- Northwest Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $632 to it, the largest being PUGET SOUND ENERGY FOUNDATION ($500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Northwest Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $632 in grants to Northwest Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Northwest Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center?
- PUGET SOUND ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Northwest Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2022–2022), and the filings of 2funders 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