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White Lily Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$96k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
23
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$16,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$16,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 23
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$659k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations White Lily Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$96k30%
FY202423$41k22%
FY202320$40k0%
FY202222$43k14%
FY202119$35k16%
FY202018$39kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$44kCivil Rights$41kEducation$35kEnvironment$35kPublic Benefit$29kCrime & Legal$24kHousing & Shelter$20kFood & Nutrition$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
MD
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($122k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget White Lily Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Housing & Shelter Alliance: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWilliam J Brennan Center for Justice Inc: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRefugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFood Gatherers: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $9,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWheaton College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNewton Community Service Centers Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $3,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNami Maryland Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPathways to Housing - Pa: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCole Resource Center Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Hadassah Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH8.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About White Lily Foundation

How much does White Lily Foundation give?
White Lily Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $96,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does White Lily Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (14%), Civil Rights (13%), Education (11%).
Who are White Lily Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: World Wildlife Fund Inc ($18k), Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($17k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($16k).
Does White Lily Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does White Lily Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as White Lily Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is White Lily Foundation based?
White Lily Foundation is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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