Bellevue Lions Club Inc
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What it says it does
Provide financial and volunteer support in the Village of Bellevue and surrounding areas to serve those with disabilities (especially the blind), diabetes, and low income families.
- Income
- $36,759
- Spending
- $24,148
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 (4)
- Funds for Wisconsin Lions Foundation to support the Lions Camp for the blind, diabetic, deaf, epileptic, and intellectually disabled along with funds to support vision screening for children from ages 6 months to 18 years. The camp served 924 campers in 2024. The Wisconsin Lions screened 123,364 children for vision problems in 2024.
- Provided funds to the Lions Eye Bank of Wisconsin to support their mission of restoring the gift of sight through recovery and transplantation of corneas, research to advance the knowledge and treatment of eye diseases, and education to increase donations. 573 transplants were performed in 2021.
- Donation to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to support their research efforts to find a cure for type-1 diabetes.
- A variety of donations ranging from $200 to $2,000 for community events, charities such as Cerebral Palsy, Caring Closets, Kathy's House, Fox Valley Loan Locker, St. Jude, Salvation Army, LCIF Disaster Relief, etc.
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 September 7, 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 September 30, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Caution.
The IRS master file records contributions to this 501(c)(4) social welfare organization as not deductible.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 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 September 7, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since April 2018.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 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 7, 2026.
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