Vadnais Heights Lions Club Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461737272
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Vadnais Heights, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6513349404
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $97,879
- Expenses
- $81,644
- Assets
- $171,432
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- KATHY SCHUG (CHAIR)
- TIM MCGLADDERY (VICE CHAIR)
- DIANNE RUSLER (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
The vadnais heights lions club is one of over 48,000 clubs of lions clubs international (lci). With a membership of over 1.4 million members the lions constitute the largest service club organization in the world. As a member club of lci we share in their vision and mission. To be the global leader in community and humanitarian service. Our mission is to empower volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote international understanding through lions clubs. Lions are focused on supporting vision, youth, diabetes, the environment, childhood cancer, and hunger. We support these causes locally and throughout the world. We are proud to be celebrating our 40th anniversary on october 31, 2020. The mission of our foundation expands on the vision and goals of lci and our club. The vadnais heights lions club foundation is a volunteer organization striving to improve the quality of life in our community through humanitarian services.
What it reported doing in 2024
In collaboration with the city of vadnais heights, the lions have funded and managed the vadnais heights food shelf since 1984. This entirely volunteer run program provides emergency food assistance to needy residence. The vadnais heights lions hold an annual toy, food and funds drive each holiday season allowing us to distribute toys to families in need. Each fall the foundation holds a golf tournament that proceeds supports the foundation. In addition to the food shelf and toy distribution, annually, the club participates in numerous service projects, makes donations to local organizations as requested and provides scholarships to three local area schools.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.6%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.1; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.