2025-10-27T10:24:32-07:00 2025-06-30 811633918 BRIAN CHARLES HIRSCH CPA 18 9TH ST STE 501A COLUMBUS GA 31901 990EZ 2024-07-01 586050400 Lions Club of Columbus LION 3348552299 PO Box 381 Columbus GA 31902 Alice Stagg Treasurer 2025-10-27 true true Brian C Hirsch P00843439 7066419933 X 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z 0239 X X www.e-clubhouse.org/sites/columbusga X X 23057 X 200 4362 17970 0 0 0 525 137 388 22920 10001 686 6901 17588 5332 229657 9977 244966 X 228523 243969 1134 997 229657 244966 229657 244966 To provide benefits to those in our community with vision impairments who do not otherwise have the resources to help themselves. To provide support to community service organizations through monetary donations and physical assistance on joint projects. To support service organizations that fall within the 8 primary initiatives of the parent organization. Those are Vision, Diabetes, Hunger, Environment, Childhood Cancer, Youth, Disaster Relief, and Humanitarian Efforts. The organization donates substantially all of the income earned to a wide range of local, state, and national charitable organizations that provide benefits and support services for sight impaired individuals, as well as those with diabetic issues and other disabilities. In addition, the organization operated a program within the community to provide vision exams and glasses to needy individuals. The program is supported and funded by the Lions Club of Columbus, and reduced cost services are provided by partnering with local optometrists, ophthalmologists and optical centers. During the current fiscal year, the program paid local providers $1,301 for 15 individuals in urgent need of exams, glasses or glasses repairs in order to continue their education, work or to simply carry out daily functions. This included providing special frames and glasses for 2 disabled children whose needs exceeded what Medicaid was willing to pay. The organization donated to a group that provides outdoor camping experiences for disabled youth, a battered women's and children's shelter, two area homeless shelters, two local animal shelters, the local drug court, a regional food bank, a group that builds hand cranked mobility carts for the leg-disabled in some of the most poverty stricken third world countries and another organization dedicated to the protection and restoration of the urban tree canopy in the community. The organization participated with other like organizations throughout the State of Georgia to purchase and donate new Lego kits, children's PJ sets and socks to all Georgia hospitals that have pediatric cancer centers. The organization has 20 collection boxes set up throughout the community for used glasses. These items are sorted, boxed and delivered to the Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation for recycling and reuse as appropriate. During the current fiscal year, the organization has collected approximately 5,000 of these items and has also contributed monetary donations to the Foundation to support its eye surgery program in partnership with Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, GA. Used glasses cases in good condition, standardized used military glasses from our local military base, and all children's glasses are donated to a local ophthalmologist who makes several trips to Africa each year to perform eye surgeries and fit patients with glasses. The organization participated in a joint project with a local food bank to distribute boxes of food to those in need in the Chattahoochee Valley community and also volunteered at the food bank's biggest fund raiser, Empty Bowl. In addition to assisting local organizations and individuals as described above, this organization also made monetary donations to three national charitable entities who provide service dogs to those with visual, hearing or other physical impairments. The organization has the latitude to tailor its services and donations to support community organizations as described above, but at the same time the organization strives to include in its budget and volunteer efforts support of the 8 primary initiatives of the parent organization. In FYE 6/30/25, the organization donated a total of $10,001. $8,700 of this amount went to 19 organizations providing services under these initiatives, and $1,301 for vision assistance to local individuals in need. 10001 7587 7587 Tommy Powell President 4.00 0 Kara Vinzant Vice President 4.00 0 Alice Stagg Secretary 4.00 0 Alice Stagg Treasurer 4.00 0 false false false false false false false 0 0 0 false 0 0 false GA Alice Stagg 38 Hunters Lane Seale AL 36875 3346140999 false false false false false false false false NONE NONE Other Expenses.1002 Office Expenses $309 Other Expenses.1 Cost Basis Adjustment $3120 Other Expenses.2 Meals and Special Events $1990 Other Expenses.3 Dues-Lions International $901 Other Expenses.4 Miscellaneous $341 Other Expenses.5 Dues-Lions District $240 Other Assets.1010 Inventories - Beginning $1134 Inventories - Ending $997