· Private foundation
Lillie Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $96k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| API GROUP FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| ROUND UP RIVER RANCH | $35,000 |
| JAS JAZZ ASPEN SNOWMASS | $26,350 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| DANCEASPEN | $10,000 |
| WILDFIRE RELIEF FUND CO GOFUNDMEORG | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE HIGHLINE | $5,000 |
| THEATRE ASPEN | $3,000 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF STAMFORD-NORWALK INC | $2,630 |
| FI X LA FIRES DOG RESCUE FUNDRAISER CO GOFUNDMEORG | $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 (FY19–24, $847k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $267k 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
- HIHEALTH IN THE HOOD INC6× · 2019–2024 · $675k · revenue +66% · 65% of their budget
- BIBLOCK ISLAND HEALTH SERVICES INC6× · 2019–2024 · $530k · revenue +57%
- TATHEATRE ASPEN3× · 2020–2025 · $51k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINEone grant, 2021 · $50k
- EPENDLESS PAWSIBILITIES SERVICE DOGgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +88% · 31% of their budget
- AEASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +123%
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.
The aspen skiing company environment foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the enhancement and protection of the environmental quality of the roaring fork valley region. we support projects that promote environmental…
Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.
Aces' mission is to inspire a life-long commitment to the earth by providing innovative and immersive programming for all ages.
To advance the public understanding of science through lifelong discovery, exploration and education.
The aspen historical society enriches the community through preserving and communicating of its remarkable history. the aspen historical society actively preserves and passionately presents the local history in an inspired and provocative…
Adk is the only non-profit organization in new york state dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and responsible recreational use of the new york state forest preserve and other parks, wild lands, and waters vital to our members and…
To support personal & professional development of nutrition researchers throughout their careers.
To empower visitors and locals to explore, learn about and protect the spectacular public lands of Southwest Colorado.
The aspen group is a non-partisan, by invitation only, healthcare forum. our members, with a track record of leadership in both the public and private sectors, share ideas, make recommendations, and serve as a resource to policy makers,…
It is the mission of aspen country day school, through its commitment to rigourous academics, creative arts, and outdoor education, to ignite curiosity, confidence, and critical thinking.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aspen Valley Skisnowboard Club Inc and the most unlike its peers is Api Group Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 31 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 HEALTH IN THE HOOD INC ↗
- Who funds BLOCK ISLAND HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds API GROUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ASPEN ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOCK ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE PASS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENDLESS PAWSIBILITIES SERVICE DOG ↗
- Who funds DANCEASPEN ↗
- Who funds ASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mountain Rescue Aspen Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF STAMFORD-NORWALK INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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: James & Lisa Lillie Charitable Foundation · Aspen Community Foundation · Alpenglow Foundation · Brady Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Lillie Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Family & Children's Agency Inc — 47% of income from government
- Health in the Hood Inc — 1% 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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