Maryland · Public charity
The Lilabean Foundation Inc
The organization was founded to help save the lives of the 5,000 children per year who are diagnosed with pediatric brain cancer. Funds raised directly support innovative research to improve outcomes and quality of life for children diagnosed with brain cancer.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $540,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $845,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 2
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $649k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Lilabean Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $1.8M | 50% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $833k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $748k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $538k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $482k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $93k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $147k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $190k | 100% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | $1,964,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Children's National | $1,463,378 | 4 | 35% |
| Children's Hospital Foundation | $622,475 | 3 | 1% |
| The Pacific Pediatric Neuro-Oncolog Consortium Foundation | $540,000 | 1 | 22% |
| National Child Research Center | $292,200 | 2 | 3% |
| Children's Hospital | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Prep4gold | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Special Love Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Lilabean Foundation Inc
- How much does The Lilabean Foundation Inc give?
- The Lilabean Foundation Inc reported 4 grants totaling $1,804,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Lilabean Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (100%).
- Who are The Lilabean Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ($2.0M), Children's National ($1.5M), Children's Hospital Foundation ($622k).
- Does The Lilabean Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lilabean Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Lilabean Foundation Inc based?
- The Lilabean Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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