Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE ILEX FOUNDATION
THE ILEX FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,930,932 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($2,930,932). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $13k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $0
What The Ilex Foundation does
Programs
The foundation published new academic volumes in the ongoing "ilex series- and "mizan series" distributed through harvard university press.
$175,306 spentContinued the support, management, development and production of the online academic journal, "mizan project", a digital initiative dedicated to interdisciplinary scholarship and public discourse on the culture and history of muslim societies.
Continued support of other academic and cultural endeavors, including but not limited to museum of fine arts (houston), smithsonian institution, association of iranian studies, middle east studies association.
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. 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 2019 to 2020, from $143k to $369k (+157%).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $393k → $425k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 THE ILEX 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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE ILEX 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE ILEX FOUNDATION's revenue fell 96% between 2017 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 171 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like THE ILEX 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 Massachusetts
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 THE ILEX 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 THE ILEX FOUNDATION?
- THE ILEX FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,930,932 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($2,930,932). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE ILEX FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,930,932 in grants to THE ILEX FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ILEX FOUNDATION?
- ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,930,932 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ILEX FOUNDATION 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 1 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