International Association of Lions Clubs
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 026013104
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Goffstown, NH, USA
- Phone
- 6036608239
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,829
- Expenses
- $29,610
- Assets
- $1,094,758
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jennifer Koblenzer (President Jul 2026 - Jun 2027)
- Neal Kurk (Vice President Jul 2026 - Jun 2027)
- Kenneth Lawrence (Immediate Past President)
People named in this filing
- Jack Adie (Director Jul 2025 - Jun2027)
- David Otte (Director Jul 2025 - Jun 2027)
- Richard Nadeau (Director Jul 2025 - Jun 2027)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Three broad areas for our mission activities: (1) Provide community-based assistance related to clothing, food, vision/hearing issues, service animals, and educational scholarships through grants to individuals and non-profit service organizations. (2) Foster civic engagement through assistance to local community-wide events. (3) Provide support towards large-scale humanitarian challenges through grants to our parent organizations at the state and national levels.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community-based assistance and fostering of civic engagement; GRANTS: (1) Grant to a local 501c3 food pantry ($3,800); (2) Grant to several community 501c3 organizations who provide community meeting space or sport fields for residents ($1,150); (3) Grant to community 501c3 organizations providing general assistance to vision-impaired residents ($5,000); (4) Grant sponsoring attendance at a summer camp for a vision limited child ($1,000); (5) Grant local public library to obtain braile items ($1,980); (6) Grant to several other Lions Club to support their community services ($200); NON-GRANTS: (7) Direct assistance through supplies for hosting community activities such as a halloween program, US flags along Main Street, Easter egg hunts, and a town-hall-style forum for candidates seeking town and school elected positions ($1,009).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 80% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 96% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 91%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 35.9%; rating input score 36; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -99.7%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 36.97; rating input score 90; 90th 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 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $27K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 42 of 43 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.