· Private foundation
White Lily Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $16,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING AND SHELTER ALLIAN | $16,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE | $16,000 |
| Rape Abuse And Incest National | $16,000 |
| MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC - | $16,000 |
| MOVEMENT VOTER FUND | $7,500 |
| LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS | $3,000 |
| WILLIAM J BRENNAN JR CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $2,500 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $18k) 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC5× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +28%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED5× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +121%
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS5× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue +63%
Funded once
WHEATON COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +27%- BSBOSTONIAN SOCIETY INCone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -12%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +3%
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.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 33 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 WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT VOTER FUND ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOSTONIAN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS TO HOUSING - PA ↗
- Who funds COLE RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HADASSAH FOUNDATION 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: American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization White Lily Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from White Lily Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Newton Community Service Centers Inc: 20% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
- Wheaton College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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