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Lilliput Foundation at a glance

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Lilliput 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.

$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$51kEducation$34kAnimals$13kRecreation & Sports$11kHousing & Shelter$9kCommunity Improvement$7kInternational$4kHealth$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$145k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FUTURE 5$10,000
FORESIGHT SKI GUIDES$5,000
UT FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LONG ISLAND CARES: $1k → 7%FORESIGHT SKI GUIDES: $5k → 7%BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $1k → 4%LONG ISLAND CARES: $500 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$40k · 8 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
36

Total granted

$40k
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+33%

Still filing today

63%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthHuman ServicesInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • F5
    FUTURE 5 INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +55%
  • SA
    SOUDERTON AREA COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +130%
  • LI
    Long Island Cares Inc
    2× · 2019–2020 · $2k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • TY
    THE YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -5%
  • BV
    BRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +142%
  • AI
    ACADEMY IN MANAYUNKgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +136%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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2
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
3
The Public School of Germantown

Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…

Education
4
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
5
Aim High for High School

To increase educational equity by providing joyful, enriching learning experiences for middle school students, aspiring teachers, and experienced educators.

Education
6
The Lang School

Founded to educate and inspire gifted and precocious learners who require special social, emotional, executive function and academic supports to realize their high potential, in the greater new york city area, for students grades 1 through…

Education
7
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
8
Miss Porter's School Inc

Miss porter's school educates young women to become informed, bold, resourceful and ethical global citizens. we expect our graduates to shape a changing world.

Education
9
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
10
Delphi Schools Inc

Delphi school's mission is to draw out the best in every student through effective educational materials and empower young adults to bring positive change in the world through reason, creativity and integrity.

Education
11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
Morristown-Beard School

Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Flying Fur Animal Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 46 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS ACADEMY INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS ACADEMY INCFUTURE 5 INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentFUTURE 5 INC+1 more: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE VILLAGE: $6,500 · OtherTHE VILLAGEUT FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherUT FOUNDATIONSO SPORTS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · OtherMEMORIAL CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST: $2,000 · OtherCOLUMBUS HOUSE: $2,000 · OtherKatrina Trask Nursery School: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherFOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $2,000 · OtherSOUDERTON AREA COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $2,000 · Other+16 more: $12,850 · Other+16 moreBRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA: $5,000 · AnimalsBRANDYWIN…Flying Fur Animal Rescue: $4,000 · AnimalsFlying Fu…BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIE…BOBBI AND THE STRAYS INC: $1,500 · AnimalsBOBBI AND…FORESIGHT SKI GUIDES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesLong Island Cares Inc: $1,500 · Human ServicesBLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT: $1,000 · Human ServicesACADEMY IN MANAYUNK: $5,000 · EducationLINDEN HALL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $1,000 · EducationTHE TIMOTHY SCHOOL CORPORATION: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationANGEL FLIGHT EAST: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsMARCH OF DIMES INC: $1,000 · HealthAFTER THE GLOW INC: $1,000 · HealthPARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC: $500 · Health
Youth Development$66,500Other$49,350Animals$12,500Human Services$7,500Education$7,100Recreation & Sports$2,500Health$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS ACADEMY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetFUTURE 5 INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACADEMY IN MANAYUNK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORESIGHT SKI GUIDES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFlying Fur Animal Rescue: $4,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetKatrina Trask Nursery School: $2,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUDERTON AREA COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetLong Island Cares Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOBBI AND THE STRAYS INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEED IN DEED: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLE OF LIBERTY COUNCIL 525 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINDEN HALL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TIMOTHY SCHOOL CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFTER THE GLOW INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARCUM COLLEGE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Pfizer Foundation…Wsfs Cares FoundationThe Cigna Group Found…The Philadelphia Foun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY13.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lilliput Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lilliput Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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