Indiana · Private foundation
Eli Lilly and Company Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $29M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 95
- Grants FY2024
- 73
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $6,376,338
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 73
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 18
- Total assets, FY2024
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Eli Lilly and Company Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 80 | $27M | 44% |
| FY2023 | 73 | $24M | 44% |
| FY2022 | 62 | $21M | 31% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $22M | 42% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $27M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Central Indiana Inc | $33,517,700 | 5 | 11% |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $6,629,289 | 5 | n/a |
| Indiana Biosciences Research Institute Inc | $5,000,000 | 1 | 20% |
| Indianapolis Public Schools Education Foundation Inc | $4,188,350 | 5 | 33% |
| The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc | $3,300,000 | 5 | 4% |
| International School of Indiana Inc | $2,000,000 | 2 | 8% |
| The Mind Trust Inc | $1,800,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Teach for America Inc | $1,400,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis | $1,012,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | 38% |
Show all 131 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($39M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Eli Lilly and Company Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 14 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 127 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Strada Education Foundation Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · The Mind Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Eli Lilly and Company Foundation
- How much does Eli Lilly and Company Foundation give?
- Eli Lilly and Company Foundation reported 95 grants totaling $29,127,899 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 73 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Eli Lilly and Company Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (36%), Health (25%), Education (18%).
- Who are Eli Lilly and Company Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: United Way of Central Indiana Inc ($34M), Indiana University School of Medicine ($6.6M), Indiana Biosciences Research Institute Inc ($5.0M).
- Does Eli Lilly and Company Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Eli Lilly and Company Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Eli Lilly and Company Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Indianapolis Foundation Inc, Lumina Foundation for Education Inc, Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation.
- Where is Eli Lilly and Company Foundation based?
- Eli Lilly and Company Foundation is based in IN.
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