· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Shu Ren of Portland Inc | $20,000 |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Grover Cleveland High School | $5,000 |
| Community Music Center | $5,000 |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $5,000 |
| Portland Public Schools | $3,000 |
| Grover Cleveland High School | $3,000 |
| Grover Cleveland High School | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 94% of Lila a Lilly Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
How this is measured
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 County 4H Exchange Tripone grant, 2024 · $18k
- LPLA PLATA CO 4H EXHANGE TRIP FUNDone grant, 2021 · $18k
- LPLA PLATA CO 4H EXCHANGE TRIP FUNDone grant, 2022 · $18k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Clackamas Service Center ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Community Music Center ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lila a Lilly Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lila a Lilly Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
- Clackamas Service Center: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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