· Private foundation
Lila a Lilly Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Shu Ren of Portland Inc | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $10,000 |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $5,000 |
| Grover Cleveland High School | $5,000 |
| Community Music Center | $5,000 |
| Portland Public Schools | $3,000 |
| Grover Cleveland High School | $3,000 |
| Grover Cleveland High School | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 94% of Lila a Lilly Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +39%- HEHartbeat Ensemble Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $9k · revenue +44%
- PUPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2021 · $7k · revenue +637%
Funded once
- LPLA PLATA CO 4H EXCHANGE TRIP FUNDone grant, 2022 · $18k
- LPLa Plata County 4H Exchange Tripone grant, 2024 · $18k
- LPLA PLATA CO 4H EXCHANGE TRIPone grant, 2023 · $18k
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 assure the building and strengthening of the jewish community locally, nationally, overseas and in israel, in accordance with jewish values.
The oregon community foundation trust is a supporting organization of the oregon community foundation (ocf). the trust makes grants that further the mission of ocf which is to improve the lives of all oregonians through the power of…
To advance knowledge of and appreciation for classical music; to build and sustain culturally vibrant communities around the arts; and to reflect the spirit of the pacific northwest with innovative and high-quality programs.
Arx Duos mission is to inspire the creation of new music through equal collaboration with artists, highest quality presentation from the stage, and authentic engagement with audiences and communities everywhere.
Enlivening, strengthening, and connecting communities by creating immersive classical music experiences for everyone
MusicOregon supports Oregons independent music creators and related professionals through artistic, cultural, educational, and public interest programs. We are committed to empowering creative musical excellence, promoting professional…
Musical performances for the public.
The Esoterics is a Seattle-based vocal ensemble, dedicated to performing and perpetuating contemporary choral music from around the world.
The federation leads a strong jewish puget sound by serving as a community voice, strengthening connections to israel and world jewry, and making investments in jewish life, for today and the next generation.
Palaver strings is a grammy-nominated, musician-led string ensemble and nonprofit organization based in portland, me. our mission is to strengthen and inspire community through music. in our musician-led model, palaver's musicians share…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Shu Ren of Portland Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 27 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 SHU REN OF PORTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hartbeat Ensemble Inc ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Clackamas Service Center ↗
- Who funds Community Music 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: 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 Lila a Lilly Foundation Inc 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.
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Clackamas Service Center — 9% 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.