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The Ila Foundation at a glance

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The Ila 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.

$7k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$21kHealth$15kEducation$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kInternational$6kArts & Culture$6kHuman Services$3kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$140k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FUND FOR GREENWICH HOSPITAL$1,775
OXFORD ACADEMY$1,735
FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES$1,500
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO$1,500
PRATT INSTITUTE$580
02The need
03

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 (FY24–24, $800) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%ASYLUM SEEKERS ADVOCACY PROJECT: $800 → 17%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

IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
AL
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$52k · 14 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
15

Total granted

$52k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+62%

Still filing today

64%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalInternationalHousing & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • OA
    OXFORD ACADEMY INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +39%
  • CENTURION MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +191%
  • TM
    THE MATHENY SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • PC
    PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +32%
  • JF
    Jazz Foundation of America Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -67%
  • RF
    RAICES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
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
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Manhattanville University

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

Education
4
Office of the Appellate Defender

Oad strives to ensure that poor people convicted of felonies receive full and equal access to justice by providing exceptional appellate representation, improving the quality of indigent defense representation through education & training,…

Crime & Legal
5
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
6
International Refugee Assistance Project Inc

Irap is a global legal aid and advocacy organization working to create a world where refugees and all people seeking safety are empowered to claim their right to freedom of movement and a path to lasting refuge. everyone should have a safe…

Human Services
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
9
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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10
American Intellectual Property Law Association

The association was formed to maintain a high standard of professional ethics among its members and to aid in the institution of improvements in legal education and to provide information to the public in laws relating to patents,…

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11
Physician Affiliate Group of New York Pc

To provide accountable, responsive quality care with the highest degree of sensitivity to the needs of our diverse, multilingual population while fulfilling the professional and educational needs of our members.

Health
12
Amistad Law Project

Amistad law project's mission is to fight for the human rights of people in our community by providing free and low-cost legal services to philadelphians and those incarcerated in pennsylvania's prisons. additionally, we advocate for laws…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Poverty Law Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Western Health Services Foundation. 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

20 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. 20 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ABA FOR JUSTICE AND EDUCATION: $15,000 · OtherABA FOR JUSTICE AND EDUCATIONMILLBURN SHORT HILL VOLUNTEER: $7,900 · OtherMILLBURN SHORT HILL VOLUNTEERFUND FOR GREENWICH HOSPITAL: $4,275 · OtherFUND FOR GREENWICH HOSPITALALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF GREATER: $3,200 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF GREATERCENTURION MINISTRIES INC: $2,850 · OtherCENTURION MINISTRIES INCRAICES FOUNDATION: $1,800 · OtherESSEX COUNTY LEGAL AID ASSOCIATION INC: $1,700 · Other+11 more: $9,790 · Other+11 moreOXFORD ACADEMY INC: $8,475 · EducationOXFORD ACADEMY I…THE MATHENY SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL INC: $1,350 · EducationTHE MATHENY SCHO…PRATT INSTITUTE: $1,080 · EducationPRATT INSTITUTENEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $3,200 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureTHE HORNS PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Arts & CulturePALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $5,000 · InternationalWESTERN HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $1,800 · HealthEHLERS-DANLOS SOCIETY: $1,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $450 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthJazz Foundation of America Inc: $3,200 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC: $1,500 · Environment
Other$46,515Education$10,905Arts & Culture$5,700International$5,000Health$3,350Philanthropy$3,200Environment$1,500

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 budgetOXFORD ACADEMY INC: $8,475 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $3,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJazz Foundation of America Inc: $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTURION MINISTRIES INC: $2,850 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $1,800 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetESSEX COUNTY LEGAL AID ASSOCIATION INC: $1,700 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMHANY MANAGEMENT INC: $1,440 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MATHENY SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL INC: $1,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRATT INSTITUTE: $1,080 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HORNS PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetEHLERS-DANLOS SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Eyes for the Needy Inc: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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.

Community Foundation …The Hyde and Watson F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 The Ila Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ila Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • Newark School of the Arts: 20% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report 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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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