The Lilium Initiative

Overview

Mission

To continue to create a platform to educate and connect traditional chinese medicine herbalists and ecologically based us farmers to ensure access to strong, sustainable, locally grown asian medicinal herbs and to support the conservation of these venerated asian botanicals. Li has three primary programs that help educate and support us farmers and practitioners in the cultivation of regenerative, sustainable, high-quality, efficacious asian herbs. The growers support group is a communication platform for the exchange of information where farmers can share experiences and help educate each other. Lis sales support program assists farmers in how to prepare chinese medicinal herbs for market, assuring quality by evaluating samples and connecting them with opportunities for sale of their finished product. Free educational presentations are offered throughout the year for all members and open to other interested parties on a sliding scale fee basis.

Operating model

Revenue model

Membership-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.

Distribution model

Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
• Transparency & Controls: 82
• Sustainability: 65
• Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
• Governance: Filed governance answers
• Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $285 in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
• Consistency: 4 of 5 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
• Schedules: 2 filed schedules
• Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
• People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
• High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
• Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
• Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.