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James & Lisa Lillie Charitable Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k9 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $281k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LILLIE FAMILY FOUNDATION | $2,068,573 |
| LILLIE FAMILY FOUNDATION | $829,880 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $160,000 |
| FAMILY & CHILDRENS AGENCY | $70,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | $50,000 |
| GIVE TO THE WORLD FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THE UNH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BLOCK ISLAND HEALTH SERVICES | $10,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY - BLOCK ISLAND EFFORTS | $10,000 |
| CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BLOCK ISLAND CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MOUNTAIN RESCUE ASPEN | $5,000 |
| BLOCK ISLAND VOLUTEER FIRE AND RESCUE | $5,000 |
| BLOCK ISLAND RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION | $2,550 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $177k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2018, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- FCFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC2× · 2017–2018 · $139k · revenue -1%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVER2× · 2017–2018 · $60k · revenue +33%
- NCNATURE CONSERVANCY - BLOCK ISLAND EFFORTS2× · 2017–2018 · $21k
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIREone grant, 2017 · $60k
- HIHEALTH IN THE HOOD INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +66%
- GOGRACE O'NEILL SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2017 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide exceptional emergency medical care, education, research, and service to the people of rhode island and beyond.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…
The university of rhode island alumni association informs and engages current and future alumni as committed partners of the university, its missions and traditions.
To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
To encourage and receive private and public support to enhance and expand rhode island college's continued tradition of educational excellence. the foundation provides support for scholarships, faculty research grants, capital…
Long island medical foundation (limf) is the not-for-profit philanthropic arm of the nassau health care corporation. limf is devoted to inspire philanthropic support for the nassau university medical center, a. holly patterson skilled…
The uri foundation unites passion and purpose by engaging alumni, donors, and friends to strengthen the university of rhode island's growth through generosity, impact, and enduring connections.
North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health in the Hood Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lillie Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LILLIE FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds HEALTH IN THE HOOD INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BLOCK ISLAND HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds BLOCK ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain Rescue Aspen Inc ↗
- Who funds MARY D FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF STAMFORD-NORWALK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOCK ISLAND EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Lillie Family Foundation · William C Young Family Foundation · The Bluestone Foundation · The Charlotte Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization James & Lisa Lillie Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Family & Children's Agency Inc — 47% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Health in the Hood Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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