International Association of Lions Clubs
Public records raise at least one point you should look into before giving.
What it says it does
Funding for elimination or reduction in preventable blindness, diabetes, and hearing loss. Aid to needy in community and world.
- Income
- $49,192
- Spending
- $28,622
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (26)
- $6,000 spent. Scholarships for High School Seniors
- $9,954 spent. Christmas Shopping
- $2,000 spent. Donation and Dinner for Center of the Blind of SE CT
- $1,000 spent. LCIF
- $200 spent. Veterans Stand down
- $500 spent. Ledyard Prevention Coalition
- $500 spent. Ledyard Libraries
- $500 spent. Linda Davis Food Pantry
- $955 spent. Camp Rising Sun
- $904 spent. CLERF
- $755 spent. St Baldricks
- $500 spent. Ct National Guard Foundation Project Elf
- $800 spent. Low Vision Center of SEC
- $300 spent. Saint Vincent De Paul Place
- $300 spent. Hearing Preservation
- $750 spent. Breakfast with Santa Claus
- $300 spent. CRIS Radio
- $300 spent. Ledyard High School Safe Grad Party
- $350 spent. Ledyard Little League
- $100 spent. Our Lady of Lourdes Church
- $750 spent. Breakfast with Easter Bunny
- $100 spent. Diabetes
- $100 spent. Alzheimer's Association
- $200 spent. Hunger/Homeless
- $404 spent. Sight Saver Day
- $100 spent. Thames River Community Service,Inc.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Caution.
Not on the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending June 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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