North Carolina · Nonprofit
Lillian's List Foundation
Lillian's List Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $619,542 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ($160,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $343k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $620k
- Net assets
- $75k
What Lillian's List Foundation does
Mission
Lillian's List envisions a North Carolina where women are able to access complete health care and freely and fully participate in political and economic life. To achieve that vision, we are committed to developing a strong pipeline of women ready to run for elected office at every level. Recruiting and training women to run at the local level of government is a critical component of building the bench for women to successfully run and win at the legislative level and above. In addition to creating a strong pipeline, this long-term strategic effort ensures that women are represented at every level of government. Lillian's List strives for the day when women are consistently the majority of all elected officials in North Carolina. We are stepping up to lead this effort by recruiting and training women to run, win, and become champions of gender equity in their local communities. We are starting this effort by providing training and supporting women interested in running for local office.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Training & Campaign Camp - Program goal is to identify emerging women leaders and provide them with the hard skills to become more civically engaged and seek leadership opportunities, including running for public office. Lillian's List Foundation has trained over 50 potential leaders, 35 campaign staff at 5 different trainings and 4 panels offered over the course of 2023.
$10,004 spent11% of program spendingCommunications - Program goals include public education on the political process and issues affecting access to complete health care, reproductive health care and gender equity. Lillian's List Foundation also engages and educates our membership on the political process and the need to engage and elect more women to public office.
$35,609 spent38% of program spendingLeadership/Membership Development - Work in local communities with members and community groups to identify emerging women leaders. Provide mentorship and encouragement to women seeking leadership and volunteer opportunities. Encourage women supporting women and civic participation.
$47,166 spent51% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $92,779.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $55k to $156k (+182%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of Lillian's List Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Montica Talmadge
Interim Executive Director
Board chair
Christine Kushner
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $25k → $119k.
8 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Lillian's List Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Lillian's List Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Lillian's List Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 38% · 2022 32% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
63% of Lillian's List Foundation's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
71% of Lillian's List Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $177k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $443k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Lillian's List Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,798 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Lillian's List Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
32%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lillian's List Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Lillian's List Foundation?
- Lillian's List Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $619,542 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ($160,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Lillian's List Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $619,542 in grants to Lillian's List Foundation, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lillian's List Foundation?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lillian's List Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 15 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing