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The Lilly Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| NEW HORIZONS HOUSE | $7,500 |
| LOTUS NETWORK | $6,500 |
| IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH | $5,000 |
| LOCAL THEATRE COMPANY | $5,000 |
| SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| LOVING ALL ANIMALS | $2,000 |
| ST ANTHONY HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| UNBOUND | $1,100 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 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; $57k 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
- NHNEW HORIZONS HOUSE5× · 2021–2025 · $21k · revenue +77%
- LNLOTUS NETWORK FKA INTL3× · 2023–2025 · $16k · revenue +21%
- LTLOCAL THEATER COMPANY2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- CDCOLORADO DREAM HUNTSone grant, 2024 · $10k
- LCLUMEN CHRISTI HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $10k
- TWTREES WATER AND PEOPLEone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +25%
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.
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Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
To harness the collective power of nonprofits and philanthropic changemakers to accelerate community impact.
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
Chinook fund seeds community-led, systemic change by mobilizing resources for and trusting in grassroots social justice organizations across colorado.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
Colorado organization for latina opportunity and reproductive rights (color) is a community-rooted nonprofit organization that works to enable latinx individuals and their families lead safe, healthy, self-determined lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation Boulder County and the most unlike its peers is The Growing Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 34 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 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LOTUS NETWORK FKA INTL ↗
- Who funds BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOCAL THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE ACCESS FUND ↗
- Who funds New Era Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds Unbound ↗
- Who funds TREES WATER AND PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds HARVEST OF HOPE PANTRY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS WITH FOUR PAWS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FLOATS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GROWING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR HOME FOR THE AGED ↗
- Who funds THE DAIRY CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds LOVING ALL ANIMALS INC ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Wolf Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Lilly Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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