Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
The Kevin and Lesley Lilly Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $528k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $330,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $147k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations The Kevin and Lesley Lilly Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $528k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $318k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $398k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $213k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $95k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $432k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $207k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $380k | 69% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Story Church Houston | $755,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Life House | $408,750 | 9 | 67% |
| Christ School Inc | $87,766 | 3 | 0% |
| Main Street Ministries Inc | $82,500 | 7 | 9% |
| St Luke's United Methodist Church | $58,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Southwestern University | $45,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The National World War II Museum Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Episcopal High School | $33,800 | 1 | n/a |
| The Junior League of Houston Inc | $22,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Micah Project Inc | $22,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Kevin and Lesley Lilly Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
Compare The Kevin and Lesley Lilly Foundation with peer funders
About The Kevin and Lesley Lilly Foundation
- How much does The Kevin and Lesley Lilly Foundation give?
- The Kevin and Lesley Lilly Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $527,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Kevin and Lesley Lilly Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (42%), Education (23%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are The Kevin and Lesley Lilly Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Story Church Houston ($756k), Life House ($409k), Christ School Inc ($88k).
- Does The Kevin and Lesley Lilly Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kevin and Lesley Lilly Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kevin and Lesley Lilly Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc, The Holthouse Foundation for Kids.
- Where is The Kevin and Lesley Lilly Foundation based?
- The Kevin and Lesley Lilly Foundation is based in DC.
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