Michigan · Nonprofit
UP LIONS SERVE
UP LIONS SERVE (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,000 to it, the largest being THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $113k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $105k
- Net assets
- $342k
What Up Lions Serve does
Mission
To provide help and information to people in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan regarding Childhood cancer, Diabetes, Children's vision and Hunger issues and solutions for the Lion's clubs of the UP. Currently there are 41 families last year that have received help.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
District 10 Upper Peninsula Childhood Cancer program helps local families with medical, travel, and other expenses incurred by the family due to a child with cancer. 91 children and their families were help in 2025.
$14,476 spentof which $106,685 as grants93% of program spendingDistrict 10 Upper Peninsula Lions Clubs Hunger initiative is developing a program to enlighten and educate families and communities about hunger and how to help themselves through gardens, proper shopping and making proper choises. Grant was given to Gwinn area seed library.
$0 spentof which $1,471 as grants0% of program spendingDistrict 10 Upper Peninsula Project Kidsight helps find children with vision problems with free screenings at schools and other venues. Over 300 children are screened in schools, community events and the UP State fair.
$1,070 spent7% of program spendingDistrict 10 Upper Peninsula Diabetes Initiative provides information to help people understand how to live with and cope with diabetes through proper nutrition and exercise.
$64 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $15,610.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $54k to $317k (+485%).
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.
98% of UP LIONS SERVE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 UP LIONS SERVE’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
UP LIONS SERVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 UP LIONS SERVE.
“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
95% of UP LIONS SERVE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
UP LIONS SERVE has grown faster than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like UP LIONS SERVE
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UP LIONS SERVE: 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 UP LIONS SERVE?
- UP LIONS SERVE (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,000 to it, the largest being THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UP LIONS SERVE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $105,000 in grants to UP LIONS SERVE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UP LIONS SERVE?
- THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UP LIONS SERVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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