How much did LILLY ENDOWMENT INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of LILLY ENDOWMENT INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

comprehensive counselingeconomic challengesarts culturalcultural innovationstrengthening ministriessptbequest

2019

highschool youthsocial servsservs sustainabltycharting futurenewton inc-newtoncampus ministrythriving congregations

2020

covid youthyouth resilienceschl youthcovid historichistoric blackblack theoschlcharting future

2021

pathways tomorrowcovid specialthriving congregationsyoung adultenhancing indplsindpls initcovid emergency

2022

special buildingcompelling preachingyouth progrmsprogrms campuseschristian parentingparenting caregivingcaregiving init

2023

strengthening youthchristian parentingparenting caregivingcaregiving initcompelling preachingcommunications bldgbldg init

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 1787 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k515 grants · $1.4M
$10k–50k394 grants · $8.4M
$50k–250k271 grants · $22M
$250k+607 grants · $2.2B

$47,000

Median grant

States reached

$79.9B

Total assets

Largest grants

INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$138,000,000
INDIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP$100,000,000
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$100,000,000
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC$50,000,000
INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RES$40,000,000
NATIONAL TRUST HISTORIC PRESERVATN$40,000,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$40,000,000
BELMONT UNIVERSITY$32,119,749
DEPAUW UNIVERSITY$32,000,000
ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$30,500,000
NATIONAL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FDN$30,000,000
INDIANA WHITE RIVER STATE PARK$30,000,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA$30,000,000
HANOVER COLLEGE TRUSTEES$30,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC$30,000,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $524.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.9B · 1155 repeat orgs$1.0B to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

1155 repeat relationships — 655 still active in FY2024, 500 since wound down; 186 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1155

659

Total granted

$6.9B

$576M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+24%

Still filing today

56%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $449M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesReligionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

IC
INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF INDIANA INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $174M · revenue +3% · 96% of their budget
CF
CICP FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $128M · revenue +40% · 89% of their budget
UW
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $128M · revenue +22% · 69% of their budget

Funded once

CO
CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS-PARKS&REC DEPT
one grant, 2022 · $72M
CI
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT BOARD OF MGRS
one grant, 2021 · $28M
HL
HISTORIC LANDMARKS FDN OF INDIANAgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $15M · revenue +54%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Covenant Christian Schools of Indianapolis Inc

Christ-centered education equipping students for a life of scholarship, leadership & service.

Education

Central Indiana Corporate

The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…

Community Improvement

Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education

Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

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University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of family medicine.

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Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education

Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher learning in the liberal arts.

Education

Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc

Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.

Arts & Culture

Prescott College Inc

Together, we create interdisciplinary, experiential, and diverse learning environments that inspire future leaders to develop a healthy, just and sustainable world.

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Franklin University

Franklin University is a student-centered, nonprofit, independent institution providing high quality, relevant education to enable the broadest possible community of learners to achieve their goals and enrich the world.

—

Indianapolis Christian School System Inc

To glorify Christ through faith-inspired learning and leadership.

Education

Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Moravian University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.4%9/2,026

the rest of the field

3,684/39,969

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

992 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

370

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

345

Early backer (in before they grew)

972/992

Grantees still filing

747/992

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,772,232,573Education$2,197,211,950Human Services$592,168,300Philanthropy$568,844,470Arts & Culture$416,265,710Community Improvement$275,020,207Religion$141,492,053

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.

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.

Nicholas H Noyes Jr MemorialIN156.8× affinity127 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Independent Colleges of Indiana Inc

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 organisation LILLY ENDOWMENT 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: INDIANA PHILANTHROPY ALLIANCE FDN.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~36 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 351868240 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on INDIANA PHILANTHROPY ALLIANCE FDN, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 36 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Lilly Endowment Inc?

Find your warmest path to Lilly Endowment Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines