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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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