Lions Clubs International Foundation is Lions helping Lions serve the world. Donations provide funding in the form of grants to financially assist Lions districts with large-scale humanitarian projects that are too extensive for Lions to finance on their own. The Foundation aids Lions in making a greater impact in their local communities, as well as around the world. Through LCIF, Lions ease pain and suffering and bring healing and hope to people worldwide.

Grants provide both immediate assistance following natural disasters and long-term disaster relief for reconstruction efforts. Grants help preserve sight, combat disability, promote health or serve youth.

Every dollar donated to LCIF goes toward a grant. Lions support is crucial as donations from Lions provide the majority of LCIF's revenue. LCIF receives a small amount of funding from foundations and corporations. It receives no club dues. LCIF is truly Lions helping Lions.

LCIF enables Lions to tackle global problems such as blindness and hearing loss and respond to major catastrophes such as earthquakes and floods. But LCIF also helps Lions serve their local communities by partnering with them to build schools, health clinics and vocational training centers for the disabled.

LCIF helps people to lead healthier and more productive lives. It combats needless blindness through cataract surgeries, building and equipping eye hospitals and clinics, and raising awareness of eye disease.

LCIF nurtures the potential of youth by building schools and supporting the life-skills program Lions-Quest. It also promotes health by building and equipping medical clinics, serves the elderly by constructing senior citizen centers, empowers the disabled by supporting vocational programs and helps victims of disasters through rebuilding projects and short-term relief.

LCIF has awarded over 8,000 grants totaling $578 million since it began in 1968.