McHenry/Wonder Lake Lions Club Award Recipients for fiscal year 2025-2026
Our goals: to provide funding to eradicate blindness, decrease food insufficiency, and encourage continuing education.
- Camp Lions scholarship 1 (Lions of Illinois Foundation) $525
- Camp Lions scholarship 2 (Lions of Illinois Foundation) $525
- Camp Lions Scholarship 3 (Lions of Illinois Foundation) $525
- Disaster Relief-Lions International $500
- Eversight (cornea transplant and research) $500
- Eyeglasses (10 clients) $780
- Food for Thought McHenry Community High School Food Pantry $750
- Fish McHenry Pantry $750
- Leader Dog for the Blind-Michigan $300
- Lions Of Illinois Foundation Low vision clinics, mobile hearing retinal screening van $750
- Lions of Illinois Foundation low vision program for severely visually impaired youth, orientation and mobility training for severely visually impaired adults $750
- Lions of Illinois Foundation Eye Research Institute University of Illinois at Chicago, $2200
- NAMI McHenry County (mental health) $250
- Scholarship 1 $500
- Scholarship 2 $500
- Scholarship 3 $500
- Wonder Lake Neighbors Food Pantry $750
- Youth and Family Center of McHenry County $350
- Dogs on the Go $300
Total Philanthropy for 2025/2026 $12,000 (amount generated by 2025 fundraising projects)
- 64% to sight and sound projects
- 36% to community based organizations addressing mental health, food insufficiency, family support, and continuing education.
- $5275 to Lions of Illinois Foundation
- $500 to Lions International
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