District 37 International Association of Lions Clubs
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383951273
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Choteau, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4062034679
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $57,614
- Expenses
- $46,247
- Assets
- $188,637
- Liabilities
- $200
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- Raleigh Peck (Governor)
- Corinna Christensen (1st Vice District Governor)
- Jon Kimble (2nd Vice District Governor)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote community service and leadership development among Lions Clubs in Montana through coordination, training, and administrative support.
What it reported doing in 2024
During FY 2024-25, District 37 Lions provided: Leadership Training: Workshops for club officers and regional leaders (~80 participants). District Convention: Two-day event featuring training sessions and keynote addresses by LCI leaders. Club Support Grants: $3,000 seed funding to the host club for the District Convention. LCIF and Vision Screening Support: Maintained PlusOptix equipment and insured its use for youth vision testing across Montana. These activities advance the Lions' mission of service and leadership development throughout the state.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 70% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.5%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 70.4%; rating input score 70
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.7%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.08; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.2%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.5% of revenue deployed · 70.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $33K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.