Illinois · Nonprofit
PLAINFIELD LIONS CHARITIES INC
PLAINFIELD LIONS CHARITIES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,500 to it, the largest being FRIENDS FOR CHARITABLE GIVING NFP ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $72k
What Plainfield Lions Charities Inc does
Mission
The organization was formed in january 1997 to serve needy individuals in the community with emphasis toward sight and hearing impaired. This will be accomplished by supplying needed equipment to the local schools and libraries and sponsoring individuals to the lions camp for sight and hearing impaired. Holiday food baskets are also provided for the needy and funds are provided to other local charities that assist those in need. Scholarships are provided to deserving high school students, spaghetti dinner is provided for the elderly, and sight and hearing costs are paid by the organization for those in need. Projects that support the village of plainfield residents are also included in the list of donations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Holiday baskets
Sight and hearing
Other
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $52k to $72k (+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.
100% of PLAINFIELD LIONS CHARITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
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 PLAINFIELD LIONS CHARITIES INC’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
PLAINFIELD LIONS CHARITIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
95% 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 PLAINFIELD LIONS CHARITIES INC.
“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
100% of PLAINFIELD LIONS CHARITIES INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
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.
Against its field
PLAINFIELD LIONS CHARITIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 PLAINFIELD LIONS CHARITIES INC: 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 PLAINFIELD LIONS CHARITIES INC?
- PLAINFIELD LIONS CHARITIES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,500 to it, the largest being FRIENDS FOR CHARITABLE GIVING NFP ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PLAINFIELD LIONS CHARITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,500 in grants to PLAINFIELD LIONS CHARITIES INC.
- Who is the largest funder of PLAINFIELD LIONS CHARITIES INC?
- FRIENDS FOR CHARITABLE GIVING NFP is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PLAINFIELD LIONS CHARITIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 2 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