· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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, $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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
- IFINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +111%
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.
The foundation is a state-based philanthropic foundation - led by latinos and for latinos. the foundation pursues civic, economic, and cultural opportunities that drive a more authentic narrative about latinos in the state and cement a…
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.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 34 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 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 INSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE GROWING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS WITH FOUR PAWS INC ↗
- Who funds TREES WATER AND PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds HOPE FLOATS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HARVEST OF HOPE PANTRY ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lilly Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lilly Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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