Claymont Delaware Lions Club Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
201983753
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Wilmington, DE, USA
Phone
4848402949
Rating
38
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Emergency Assistance

Reported finances

Revenue
$80,882
Expenses
$71,844
Assets
$43,937
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Keith Guzma (IP President)
  • Frances Hershberger (3nd Vice President)
  • Donald F LeCates (2nd Vice President)
  • Nolan Lewis (1st Vice President)
  • Carol LeCates (President)

People named in this filing

  • Amanda Scarborough (Asst. Secretary)
  • Keith Guzma (IP President)
  • Richard S Gackenbach (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our main mission is to provide humanitarian service to those less fortunate than us. We provide sight, hearing services, hospital equipment free of charge and grants to local, national and international humanitarian organizations. We also provide scholarships to high school seniors.

What it reported doing in 2025

Grants and financial assistance to local, national and international organizations and civic events (Food Pantry, Disabled Citizens assistance, Scouting, Pediatric Cancer, Blind Citizens, Special Olympics, Christmas Parade, etc.). Over 8000 people impacted.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 63% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 54
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11.2%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -39.4% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.