Colorado · Nonprofit
LOVE FOR LILY
LOVE FOR LILY (Colorado) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $430,913 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($123,688). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $379k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $431k
- Net assets
- $156k
What Love for Lily does
Mission
To provide support to families in the neonatal intensive care unit(nicu).through programing we aim to teach coping skills, build community, and build teams of support easing the stresses of the nicu.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Facilitated support groups- group meetings provide safe, welcoming, and regular opportunities for individual and small group connection, building community and easing the loneliness and fear that often accompany a nicu stay. This often unexpected and unfamiliar path for parents quickly brings to the surface difficult emotions and thoughts of uncertainty, failure, shame, and guilt, mixed confusingly with happiness and joy at the arrival of their children. Many people have not been taught how to navigate these experiences, but with the guidance of trained facilitators, the parents attending our group meetings not only gain new skills, but they also learn that they are not alone in their nicu journey.
$52,232 spent$92,000 earned by the program24% of program spendingTraining and support for nicu medical teams on family programs, coping skills, self-care practices and team-building. Bereavement and grief support, love and guidance to families. Bags stuffed with items that can provide a little comfort and ease the burden of life in the nicu.
$138,231 spent64% of program spendingGrants - help to insure familites who spend four or more weeks in the nicu obtain therapies that support the well-being of their child(ren).
$24,125 spentof which $24,125 as grants11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $214,588.
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. 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 2020 to 2021, from $88k to $185k (+109%).
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.
86% of LOVE FOR LILY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Sahra Cahoon
Executive director
Board chair
Sara Arp
Events chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $8k → $125k.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 LOVE FOR LILY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 funders by total. 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
LOVE FOR LILY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 LOVE FOR LILY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 46% · 2022 41% · 2023 24% — 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
60% of LOVE FOR LILY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
78% of LOVE FOR LILY'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 $97k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $334k 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
LOVE FOR LILY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,648 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LOVE FOR LILY
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 Colorado
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
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOVE FOR LILY: 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 LOVE FOR LILY?
- LOVE FOR LILY (Colorado) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $430,913 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($123,688). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LOVE FOR LILY have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $430,913 in grants to LOVE FOR LILY, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOVE FOR LILY?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $123,688 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOVE FOR LILY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing