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LILLYLULU FOUNDATION INC

LILLYLULU FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,250 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($70,250). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$671k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$185k
Net assets
$623k
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Lillylulu Foundation Inc does

Mission

To harness the generosity and focus of a group of type 1 diabetes donors and influencers to have an efficient, meaningful and direct impact on the type 1 diabetes community. The impact we strive for is to be a contributor to finding a cure through research and to address systematic deficiencies in care (physical and mental) by improving outcomes for those diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. In 2025, the organization's third year of operations, it held its third fund raising event raising over $500,000 in continued support of its mission. The organization continued to fund grants with the continued purpose of supporting t1d resources and clinical support for high-risk families on cape cod and in the greater boston area.

    $793,500 spentof which $793,500 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $793,500.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($517k) Expenses 100 ($296k) Net assets 100 ($221k)2024 Revenue 138 ($715k) Expenses 51 ($151k) Net assets 355 ($785k)2025 Revenue 130 ($671k) Expenses 281 ($833k) Net assets 282 ($623k)
202320242025
Revenue (130)Expenses (281)Net assets (282)Peer revenue range

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 $392k to $851k (+117%).

$392k
$851k
$1.1M
202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

107% of LILLYLULU FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$221k
’23
$564k
’24
−$162k
’25
15
months of
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.

202320242025
Listed778
Joined·+0+1
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 LILLYLULU FOUNDATION 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

LILLYLULU FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

64% 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 LILLYLULU FOUNDATION INC.

38%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

“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

64% of LILLYLULU FOUNDATION INC'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 $68k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states.

MA
VA
MD

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $118k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LILLYLULU FOUNDATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−24% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve15.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 3%Fundraising 2%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LILLYLULU FOUNDATION 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 LILLYLULU FOUNDATION INC?
LILLYLULU FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,250 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($70,250). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LILLYLULU FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $185,250 in grants to LILLYLULU FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LILLYLULU FOUNDATION INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $70,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LILLYLULU FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 6 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