· Private foundation
Lillys Gift Foundation
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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $410k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCKENZIE RIVER TRUST | $55,000 |
| MARCOLA ELEMENTARY PTO | $50,000 |
| LIBERATION PATHWAYS HEALING PLACE | $40,000 |
| MARCOLA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NEWPORT MESA CHURCH | $20,000 |
| OREGON HORSE RESCUE | $20,000 |
| SEEDING JUSTICE THE CHUUSH FUND | $20,000 |
| BOARD HOUSE SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| COMPANION ANIMAL MEDICAL PROJECT (CAMP CLINIC) | $15,000 |
| SOUTHWEST INDIAN FOUNDATION WATER IS LIFE PROGRAMS | $15,000 |
| OREGON WORKER RELIEF FUND | $15,000 |
| PROGRAMA DE AYUDA INC (DBA LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION) | $10,000 |
| LANE COUNTY SHEREES MOUNTED POSSE | $10,000 |
| ROARING RIVER WATER COLLECTIVE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $386k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% 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 23% of Lillys Gift Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 61%.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
78 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 62 since wound down; 19 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- 1D10th District Junior Livestock Committee Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +49% · 26% of their budget
- WMWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +19%
- SHSTABLE HANDS7× · 2017–2024 · $184k · revenue +35% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- FFFAMILIES FORWARDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +49%
- ORORE-CAL RCDone grant, 2020 · $100k
- RCREDEMPTION CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $100k
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.
Our mission is to help herding dogs who are abandoned, neglected and abused or simply in the wrong home into a loving appropriate home.
Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals
Conduct rescue of dogs, facilitate adoptions of same. provide emergency vet services for dogs needing rescue
Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…
C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…
Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.
Foothill Dog Rescue is a 100% all volunteer organization dedicated to re-homing dogs from over crowded animal shelters, owner surrenders and underserved communities. We also sponsor vaccine and microchip clinics for our County and have…
How this is measured
59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 142 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 TULELAKE-BUTTE VALLEY FAIR FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds 10th District Junior Livestock Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds STABLE HANDS ↗
- Who funds MADRONE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH LAKE COUNTIES FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds PURR-ANGELS ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASANTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON HORSE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds CATALIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds McKenzie River Trust ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST DOG PROJECT ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Klamath Medical Service Bureau Foundatio Attn Timothy a Bailey · Graham Family Foundation · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Network for Good
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lillys Gift Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lillys Gift Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Womenspace: 62% of income from government
- Klamath Advocacy Center: 60% of income from government
- Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc: 59% of income from government
- Smart Reading: 3% of income from government
- Seeding Justice: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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