Lilly Endowment is pleased to announce its Exploring Christian Practices Initiative, which aims to multiply opportunities and increase access to settings that help individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds explore and engage in Christian practices to address their spiritual interests and questions, find and build community with others, nourish their religious lives and grow in faith.
Donor Name: Lilly Endowment
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/25/2026
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
Funding Information
Grants up to $2.5 million.
Grant Period
Five-year period.
Considerations
- Listening to individuals that the organization seeks to reach and serve and understanding their spiritual interests and questions.
- Identifying Christian practices and retrieving, adapting, refining and deploying them to nourish faith.
- Multiplying opportunities and increasing access to settings for individuals to explore and engage in Christian practices.
Eligibility Criteria
- Charitable organizations in the United States that are tax-exempt public charities under Internal Revenue Code
- section 501(c)(3) and corresponding statutes and that have a demonstrated interest in nurturing Christian
- faith and life are eligible to apply for grants through the Exploring Practices initiative.
For more information, visit Lilly Endowment.


