Indiana · Nonprofit
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,668 to it, the largest being EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.1B
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $106B
What Lilly Endowment Inc does
Programs
Convening for increasing post-secondary enrollment in indiana - the convening for increasing post-secondary enrollment in indiana focused on issues related to declines in post-secondary enrollment in indiana. On january 22, 2025, lilly endowment convened 158 representatives from 37 indiana colleges and universities. The convening offered an opportunity for the attendees to connect with colleagues and to learn from knowledgeable speakers on a variety of topics relevant to post-secondary education and youth programs on college campuses.
$50,704 spentConvening for character development through youth programs initiative - character development through youth programs is an invitational initiative focused on the role that youth-serving organizations play in the development of character in youth. On april 8, 2025, lilly endowment hosted a virtual convening of 31 representatives from seven national youth-serving organizations for an opportunity to connect with colleagues from other organizations and to learn more about current character development research, frameworks and implementation strategies from a subject matter expert.
$6,000 spentConvening for artificial intelligence (ai) in higher education initiative in 2025, lilly endowment paid the marriott indianapolis north an initial site deposit for the 2026 convening of ai in higher education grantees. On february 23-24, 2026, 136 representatives from 35 indiana colleges and universities attended the convening, and the balance of the hotel charges was paid in 2026. The convening offered an opportunity for attendees to connect with colleagues and to learn from prominent experts on a variety of topics related to ai and higher education.
$3,000 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $79.9B to $106B (+33%).
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
N Clay Robbins
Chairman&CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of LILLY ENDOWMENT INC’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
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
40% 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 LILLY ENDOWMENT INC.
“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.
Where its funders are
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like LILLY ENDOWMENT INC
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LILLY ENDOWMENT INC: 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 LILLY ENDOWMENT INC?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,668 to it, the largest being EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LILLY ENDOWMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $16,668 in grants to LILLY ENDOWMENT INC.
- Who is the largest funder of LILLY ENDOWMENT INC?
- EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LILLY ENDOWMENT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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