· Private foundation
The Lilac Foundation Corporation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $46k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $166k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARTS IN HEALTH OCALA METRO INC | $116,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| MARION CULTURAL ALLIANCE | $11,250 |
| OCALA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $10,000 |
| PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS MARION COUNTY | $5,000 |
| THE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- AIARTS IN HEALTH OCALA METRO INC3× · 2022–2024 · $309k · revenue +340% · 74% of their budget
- MCMARION COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC4× · 2020–2023 · $70k · revenue +53%
- OSOcala Symphony Orchestra Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- TCTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR OCALAone grant, 2022 · $20k
- HOHospice of Marion Coiuntyone grant, 2020 · $6k
- FDFLORIDA DEFENDERS OF THE ENVIRONMENTone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -31%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of united arts of central florida is to inspire and enrich communities by strengthening arts, science, history, and culture through strategic collaborations and investments.
The Art League of Marco Island, Inc. sponsors and promotes the study of, appreciation and support for, and interest in, the fine arts and in allied and related creative arts and crafts. The Art Center honors Marco Island and Southwest…
To provide art education and exhibit art by local artists for the enrichment and benefit of the public in Flagler and surrounding counties, Florida.
To provide schools and community with exposure to the arts in all forms.
Arts Advocacy Education & Grants
To inspire participation and passion for the arts of martin county, florida. key programs include the court house cultural center gallery and educational arts programs.
A thriving art community creates a more prosperous and resilient community overall. We view resiliency as a top priority for our community as Panama City and the surrounding areas work to recover from Hurricane Michael in 2018. We believe…
Film Florida was formed to proide a leadership role in Floridas film and entertainment production industry.
The mission of the polk arts alliance, inc. is to cultivate an environment in which all the arts flourish. this corporation is organized generally to develop, coordinate, and promote the visual and performing arts and cultural activities…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marion Cultural Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Florida Defenders of the Environment. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ARTS IN HEALTH OCALA METRO INC ↗
- Who funds MARION CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MARION COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA DEFENDERS OF THE ENVIRONMENT ↗
- Who funds OCALA CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA ART XCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Marion County Inc ↗
- Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Ocala Marion County Inc · Palmer Foundation Inc · The Colen Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Lilac Foundation Corporation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Marion Cultural Alliance Inc — 9% of income from government
- United Way of Marion County Inc — 4% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Arts in Health Ocala Metro Inc — 0% of income from government
- Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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