International Association of Bay City Lions

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
746063345
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2009–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Bay City, TX, USA
Phone
9792459236
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$42,778
Expenses
$89,130
Assets
$24,703
Liabilities
$1,749

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

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MICHAEL GRIFFITH (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • MICHAEL GRIFFITH (PRESIDENT)
  • CHAD CRAFT (VP)
  • MATTHEW JONES (VP)

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

Community service

What it reported doing in 2025

Bay city lions club makes cash donations to statewide, national & international lions humanitarian programs & to local charitable & community groups. College scholarships are awarded as prizes for the winners of the rice festival queens pageant. Last year club members performed nearly 6,000 eye screenings to children in matagorda and surrounding counties at no cost to anyone. The club hosted a fish fry for matagorda county first responders. The recipients were served noon and evening meals to accomodate their work schedules. Over 100 meals were served. Excess of revenue over expenses of fish fry will be used to benefit first responders in matagorda county. Members also constructed a wheel chair ramp for a need lady in bay city. This year, because of losses sustained from our traditional fundraiser, the club held a gun raffle.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 78% for direct work, and 22% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 18
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 97%; rating input score 97

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -108.4%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $86K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 17 filing years from 2009 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.