Wisconsin · Nonprofit
OAK CREEK LIONS CLUB
OAK CREEK LIONS CLUB (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being PARADISE EMPOWERS INC ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $251k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $266k
What Oak Creek Lions Club does
Mission
Community service the oak creek lions sponsor fund raising events and use the proceeds to fund and support numerous community charities and lions charities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The club sponsors & funds numerous programs in oak creek, including: scholarships, youth development and athletic programs, food baskets for needy families and the food pantry, blood drives, summer concerts, home visiting nurses, police services and holiday pancake breakfast.
$30,024 spentof which $13,305 as grants17% of program spendingThe club makes grants to a number of lions charities, including: hope house for families visiting patients, camp for children with disablities, diabetes awareness, guide dogs for blind persons, wisconsin lions eye bank, oak creek lions community foundation & lions clubs international relief fund.
$110,110 spentof which $100,235 as grants63% of program spendingThe oak creek lions operate as a club and as such pays dues to lions internationa and the wisconsin lions. The club maintains the festival park and building in oak creek. The club promotes leadership development for its members.
$34,806 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $174,940.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $194k to $266k (+37%).
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. 3 of the last 8 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 held at 1 funder, grant income held at $500.
From the IRS filings of OAK CREEK LIONS CLUB’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.
Where its funders are
OAK CREEK LIONS CLUB draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like OAK CREEK LIONS CLUB
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OAK CREEK LIONS CLUB: 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 OAK CREEK LIONS CLUB?
- OAK CREEK LIONS CLUB (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being PARADISE EMPOWERS INC ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OAK CREEK LIONS CLUB have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,500 in grants to OAK CREEK LIONS CLUB, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OAK CREEK LIONS CLUB?
- PARADISE EMPOWERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OAK CREEK LIONS CLUB find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 1 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing