The following clubs were honored as distinguished for the 2020-21 Kiwanis Year:
| Adirondack | Plattsburgh |
| Plattsburgh Breakfast | |
| Rouses Point-Champlain | |
| Bronx Westchester South | East Yonkers |
| Fordham, Bronx | |
| Hartsdale | |
| Yonkers | |
| Brooklyn | Bensonhurst & Bay Ridge |
| Parkway East, Brooklyn | |
| Capital | The Helderbergs-Berne |
| Latham | |
| New Scotland | |
| Central | Central Adirondacks, Old Forge |
| Frankfort | |
| Lake Delta, Rome | |
| Mohawk Valley Central | |
| Utica | |
| Chemung | Cortland |
| Elmira | |
| Horseheads | |
| Finger Lakes | Canandaigua |
| Farmington-Victor | |
| Geneva | |
| Honeoye Falls-Lima, Mendon | |
| Seneca Falls-Waterloo | |
| Webster | |
| Genesee | Geneseo |
| Greece | |
| Nunda | |
| Rochester | |
| Rochester West Central | |
| Spencerport | |
| Hudson River | Kingston |
| Lower Ulster County | |
| Newburgh | |
| Poughkeepsie | |
| Saugerties | |
| Hudson River West | Callicoon |
| Chester | |
| Middletown | |
| Minisink Valley | |
| Monticello | |
| Washingtonville | |
| Woodridge | |
| Hudson Tri County | Fairview-Greenburgh |
| Long Island North | Glen Cove |
| Manhasset-Port Washington | |
| North Shore, Long Island | |
| Long Island South Central | The Bellmores |
| East Meadow | |
| Franklin Square | |
| Hempstead | |
| Levittown | |
| Malverne | |
| Massapequa | |
| Merrick | |
| Wantagh | |
| Long Island Southwest | East Rockaway |
| The Five Towns, Long Island | |
| Lynbrook | |
| Oceanside | |
| The Peninsula-Hewlett | |
| Metropolitan | All Island |
| Chinatown, New York City | |
| Global e-Care-NY | |
| North Central, Staten Island | |
| Richmond County | |
| South Shore, Staten Island | |
| Verrazano | |
| Mohawk | Glens Falls |
| Saratoga-Wilton | |
| Niagara Frontier North | Lewiston |
| Niagara Wheatfield | |
| The Tonawandas | |
| Niagara Frontier South | Alden |
| East Aurora | |
| Elma | |
| Holland | |
| Marilla | |
| Springville | |
| Tri-County, Western New York | |
| Wales | |
| Ontario | Baldwinsville |
| Eastwood-East Syracuse | |
| Fulton | |
| Syracuse Young Professionals | |
| Queens East | Bayside |
| Big Apple, NY-USA | |
| Douglaston | |
| Jamaica | |
| Rosedale-Laurelton | |
| Queens West | Astoria-Long Island City |
| East River | |
| Glendale | |
| Ozone Park-Woodhaven | |
| Saint Lawrence | Gouverneur |
| Malone | |
| Norwood | |
| Southwestern | Falconer |
| Westfield-Ripley | |
| Suffolk East | Greater Westhampton |
| The Islips, Bay Shore | |
| Sayville | |
| Southhampton Town | |
| Suffolk West | Copiague |
| Huntington | |
| Lindenhurst | |
| Northport-East Northport | |
| Susquehanna | Owego |
| Van Rensselaer | Castleton-on-Hudson |
| East Greenbush | |
| Rensselaer | |
| Sand Lake | |
| Troy | |
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