How much does Lillis Foundation give?

Lillis Foundation reported 101 grants totaling $371,583 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 76 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Lillis Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (69%), Human Services (14%), Health (4%).

Who are Lillis Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Regis University ($40k), SparkHope Automotive ($35k), Castle Rock Parks and Trails Foundation ($30k).

Does Lillis Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Lillis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Lillis Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Anschutz Family Foundation.

Where is Lillis Foundation based?

Lillis Foundation is based in CO.

Foundation Dossiers

Colorado · Private foundation

Lillis 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.

$372k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 101
Grants FY2024: 76
Organizations funded FY2023: 38%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $2,500
Largest grant, FY2024: $15,000
Organizations funded a year: 55 to 76; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 23
Total assets, FY2024: $5.2M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Lillis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	77	$372k	22%
FY2023	76	$333k	38%
FY2022	70	$371k	37%
FY2021	66	$274k	48%
FY2020	59	$293k	47%
FY2019	55	$272k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$1.4MHuman Services$272kHealth$71kPhilanthropy$50kRecreation & Sports$47kAnimals$41kFood & Nutrition$34kHousing & Shelter$30kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Regis University	$39,500	4	0%
SparkHope Automotive	$34,750	4	1%
Castle Rock Parks and Trails Foundation	$30,000	1	7%
Kids First Health Care	$29,000	2	0%
Laguna College of Art & Design	$29,000	4	0%
A Little Help	$27,500	5	1%
Indiana University School of Medicine	$24,600	6	n/a
Baylor University	$24,500	5	0%
Belmont University	$24,000	4	0%
Canopy Village Inc	$23,500	4	1%

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All grantees of Lillis Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Regis University	$39,500	4	0%
SparkHope Automotive	$34,750	4	1%
Castle Rock Parks and Trails Foundation	$30,000	1	7%
Kids First Health Care	$29,000	2	0%
Laguna College of Art & Design	$29,000	4	0%
A Little Help	$27,500	5	1%
Indiana University School of Medicine	$24,600	6	n/a
Baylor University	$24,500	5	0%
Belmont University	$24,000	4	0%
Canopy Village Inc	$23,500	4	1%
Wellspring Community	$22,400	4	0%
Colorado Women's Education Foundati	$21,250	2	5%
Tri-Lakes Cares	$21,000	3	1%
Clothes to Kids of Denver Inc	$20,500	4	0%
Colorado Springs Child Nursery Centers Inc	$20,000	1	0%
The Colorado College	$19,000	5	0%
University of Denver	$18,067	2	0%
The University of Puget Sound	$18,000	6	0%
Mesa County Valley School District 51	$16,500	4	n/a
Read to Me	$16,000	4	n/a
Regents of the University of Colorado	$15,100	3	n/a
Stetson University Inc	$15,000	3	0%
Seniors' Resource Center Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Doane University	$13,000	4	0%
The Trustees of Princeton University	$12,654	3	0%
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska	$12,500	2	n/a
Golf 4 the Disabled	$12,500	2	n/a
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation	$12,250	4	0%
Utah State University	$12,000	3	n/a
Castle Rock Senior Center Inc	$12,000	1	2%
Aging Resources of Douglas County	$12,000	4	1%
Creighton University	$10,500	4	0%
Court Appointed Special Advocates	$10,000	1	2%
Secor	$10,000	2	0%
Benefits in Action	$10,000	1	n/a
Habitat for Humanity of Pueblo Inc	$10,000	1	3%
Denver Asset Building Coalition	$10,000	1	2%
A Precious Child Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Brigham Young University	$9,500	3	n/a
Bessies Hope	$9,000	1	3%
Denver Dumb Friends League	$8,500	4	0%
Mattersville	$8,500	2	n/a
Colorado Christian University	$8,000	1	0%
Nebraska Wesleyan University	$8,000	3	0%
Meals on Wheels for Fort Collins Colorado Inc	$7,500	1	1%
Brent Eley Foundation	$7,000	2	0%
Homes for Our Troops Inc	$7,000	2	0%
Vassar College	$5,500	3	0%
Denver Public Library Friends Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
Colorado School of Mines	$5,000	1	n/a
Visiting Ancillary Services Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Nourish Meals on Wheels	$5,000	2	0%
Impact on Education Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Compass Montessori Education Foundation	$4,500	2	2%
Colorado Pet Pantry	$4,000	4	1%
Longmont Meals on Wheels Inc	$4,000	1	0%
Paws for Purple Hearts	$4,000	3	0%
Carleton College	$4,000	1	0%
Food Bank of the Rockies	$4,000	1	0%
Neighbor to Neighbor Inc	$3,500	1	0%
The Blue Bench	$3,500	2	0%
Terolyn Horse Rescue Inc	$3,000	3	1%
Folds of Honor Foundation	$3,000	2	0%
University of New Haven	$3,000	2	0%
Canine Companions for Independence Inc	$2,500	3	0%
Wounded Veterans Relief Fund Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Women's Bean Project	$2,000	1	0%
Limb Preservation Foundation	$2,000	1	0%
Freedom Service Dogs Inc	$2,000	1	0%
Children's Literacy Center Inc	$2,000	2	0%
Sunny Horse Foundation	$2,000	1	n/a
Gigis Playhouse Inc	$1,500	1	n/a
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College	$1,500	1	0%
Ray of Hope Cancer Foundation	$1,500	1	0%
Oliver Patch Project Inc	$1,500	1	0%
Resilience 1220 Inc	$1,250	1	0%
Colorado State University	$1,250	1	n/a
Rocky Mountain Butterfly Consortium	$1,000	1	0%
Backpack Society	$1,000	1	0%
Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Jeffco Action Center Inc the Action Center	$1,000	1	0%
Wish of a Lifetime	$1,000	1	0%
The Literacy Project	$1,000	1	0%
Peppers Senior Dog Sanctuary	$1,000	1	0%
Wedontwaste Inc	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 102 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lillis Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 71.

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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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO61.5× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Rose Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Nextfifty Initiative · Daniels Fund · Western Union Foundation

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.

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About Lillis Foundation

How much does Lillis Foundation give?: Lillis Foundation reported 101 grants totaling $371,583 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 76 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Lillis Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (69%), Human Services (14%), Health (4%).
Who are Lillis Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Regis University ($40k), SparkHope Automotive ($35k), Castle Rock Parks and Trails Foundation ($30k).
Does Lillis Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lillis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lillis Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Anschutz Family Foundation.
Where is Lillis Foundation based?: Lillis Foundation is based in CO.