· Private foundation
The Lilac Fund Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $104k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $367k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $206,944 |
| ALBI FUND INSTITUTE & LAB | $100,000 |
| JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE - JDC (UKRAINE RELIEF) | $60,000 |
| WOMEN IN FILM AND VIDEO (WIFV) | $25,000 |
| THE CAVANAUGH HOUSE | $15,400 |
| T'RUAH | $15,000 |
| THE GAZA CHILDREN VILLAGE | $15,000 |
| MCF MOUNTAIN MEDIATION CENTER | $12,875 |
| AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $10,300 |
| PAYPAL GIVING FUND | $10,000 |
| NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORANIM | $8,000 |
| JEWISH STORY PARTNERS | $5,400 |
| JEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE (JUFJ) | $5,163 |
| ART WITH A HEART | $4,673 |
| HEALING ACROSS THE DIVIDE | $3,605 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TT'RUAH5× · 2021–2025 · $47k · revenue +11%
- TCTHE CAVANAGH HOUSE5× · 2021–2025 · $36k · revenue +78%
WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP4× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- CACHIZUK AMUNO FUNDone grant, 2021 · $76k
- AJAMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION FUNDone grant, 2024 · $20k
- CACHIZUK AMUNO CONGREGATIONone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 66 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds ALBI FUND INSTITUTE AND LAB ↗
- Who funds T'RUAH ↗
- Who funds THE CAVANAGH HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
- Who funds Art With a Heart Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORANIM INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EMMA'S TORCH LTD ↗
- Who funds PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH STORY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE GAZA MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
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: Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Frier Foundation Inc · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lilac Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lilac Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Parks and People Inc: 43% of income from government
- Public Justice Center Inc: 5% of income from government
- Art With a Heart Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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