University - Ballard Lions Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 916056206
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Shoreline, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2067198660
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Men's Service Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $125,153
- Expenses
- $88,141
- Assets
- $377,619
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- James S Ludwig (President)
People named in this filing
- James S Ludwig (President)
- James Ludwig (Secretary)
- Terry Froggatt (Trustee)
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
The university ballard lions foundations is a 501c3 affiliate of the university ballard lions club of seattle, wa which in turn is part of the lions clubs international (lci). The mission of lci and our lions club and foundation is to serve others in need, with special emphasis on sight, hearing and diabetes. The foundation makes grants each year mostly to 501c3 organizations from funds raised by its annual charity auction. The foundation made grants to entities listed on schedule o. Each of the organizations are organized in the united states and none are foreign grants.
What it reported doing in 2025
University lions camano island youth camp is a 22 acre camp which is offered at no charge to non-profit youth groups. This is owned by the foundation and monies expensed are to maintain the camp.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 62% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 12
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 9.7%; rating input score 10
- Program expense ratio: 13.7%; rating input score 14
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 29.6%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.28; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 62% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 9.7% of revenue deployed · 13.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $12K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 10/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.