California · Private foundation
Lily Lai 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.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2024
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $32M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Lily Lai Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 24 | $1.4M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $1.0M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $1.0M | 4% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $1.1M | 8% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $808k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $778k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $779k | 30% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $688k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uc San Diego Foundation | $890,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Focusing Philanthropy Inc | $635,000 | 6 | 1% |
| California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association | $615,000 | 7 | 8% |
| YWCA of San Diego County | $490,000 | 8 | 3% |
| San Diego Public Library Foundation | $460,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Feeding San Diego | $460,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Casa De Amparo | $410,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Voices for Children | $405,000 | 4 | 2% |
| A Reason To Survive | $330,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Monarch School Project | $250,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($910k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lily Lai Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · David C Copley Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · McCarthy Family Foundation Inc · Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego Ltd · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Parker Foundation · The Cushman Foundation
How this is measured
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About Lily Lai Foundation
- How much does Lily Lai Foundation give?
- Lily Lai Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $1,405,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Lily Lai Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (28%), Human Services (21%), Crime & Legal (13%).
- Who are Lily Lai Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Uc San Diego Foundation ($890k), Focusing Philanthropy Inc ($635k), California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association ($615k).
- Does Lily Lai Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lily Lai 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 Lily Lai Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego, David C Copley Foundation, The San Diego Foundation.
- Where is Lily Lai Foundation based?
- Lily Lai Foundation is based in CA.
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