International Association of Lions Clubs
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237151528
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Mertztown, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6107503464
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $30,324
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $43,482
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- Kerry Meitzler (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide humanitarian service within our community and beyond, specifically to reduce the prevalence of diabetes and improve the quality of life for those diagnosed, to prevent avoidable blindness and improve quality of life for people who are blind and visually impaired, to ensure all community members have access to nutritious foods, to sustainably protect and restore our environment to improve the well-being of all communities to help those affected by childhood cancer survive and thrive to improve the lives and education of our youth and serve in both disaster preparedness and response.
What it reported doing in 2024
White Cane Days - Raising funds for the Blind, Hearing impaired, Diabetes, and Childhood Cancer
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 99% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 28
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 43.7%; rating input score 44
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26.8% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 55.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 43.7% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $13K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 3 of 5 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.