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SOBIESKI LIONS CLUB INC

SOBIESKI LIONS CLUB INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being DICK'S SPORTING GOODS FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$165k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$159k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Sobieski Lions Club Inc does

Mission

To create and foster a spirit of understanding among the people of the world; to promote principals of good government and good citizenship; to take an active interest in civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the community; to unite members in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship and mutual understanding; and to provide a forum for the open discussion of all matters of public interest.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The club holds semi-monthly meetings. Members attend the regionalconventions. The club distributes xmas bags of treats to the local senior citizens. There is also an annual dinner for the area senior citizens which includes food, refreshments and entertainment. The club is a major supporter of the city ballpark and youth baseballleagues. The club also supports local school events such as post prom, grad bash, community fun rungs and community summer parades. The club also donates to the lions international caucuses such as lions vision foundation.

    $100,293 spentof which $84,262 as grants$25,094 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $100,293.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($93k) Expenses 100 ($90k) Net assets 100 ($149k)2018 Revenue 44 ($40k) Expenses 24 ($22k) Net assets 105 ($156k)2019 Revenue 25 ($24k) Expenses 78 ($71k) Net assets 74 ($110k)2020 Revenue 32 ($29k) Expenses 11 ($10k) Net assets 84 ($125k)2021 Revenue 80 ($74k) Expenses 109 ($99k) Net assets 71 ($106k)2022 Revenue 94 ($87k) Expenses 75 ($68k) Net assets 80 ($118k)2023 Revenue 138 ($128k) Expenses 144 ($130k) Net assets 80 ($118k)2024 Revenue 147 ($136k) Expenses 123 ($111k) Net assets 99 ($148k)2025 Revenue 179 ($165k) Expenses 175 ($158k) Net assets 107 ($159k)
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Revenue (179)Expenses (175)Net assets (107)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $156k to $110k (−29%).

$152k
$156k
$110k
$125k
$106k
$118k
$118k
$148k
$159k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’17
$19k
’18
−$47k
’19
$19k
’20
−$25k
’21
$19k
’22
−$2k
’23
$25k
’24
$7k
’25
2.9
months of
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.

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Listed1111111188886
Joined·+0+2+1+4+0+1+1+3
No longer listed·02170115
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of SOBIESKI LIONS CLUB 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.

Where its funders are

SOBIESKI LIONS CLUB INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.

PA

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like SOBIESKI LIONS CLUB INC

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 Minnesota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 0%Fundraising 7%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOBIESKI LIONS CLUB 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 SOBIESKI LIONS CLUB INC?
SOBIESKI LIONS CLUB INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being DICK'S SPORTING GOODS FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOBIESKI LIONS CLUB INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to SOBIESKI LIONS CLUB INC.
Who is the largest funder of SOBIESKI LIONS CLUB INC?
DICK'S SPORTING GOODS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOBIESKI LIONS CLUB INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing