Eli Lilly's Grants and Contributions (US)

In May 2007 Eli Lilly announced that they would start posting details on "all educational grant funding and other monetary contributions provided to U.S.-based organizations" into an online database.

Where to Look
According to Lilly, this document lists "educational grants and charitable contributions made by the Lilly Grant Office (LGO) and the Lilly Research Laboratories (LRL) Grant Office to U.S.-based organizations." The list of the grants for the first two quarters of 2007 details 1735 grants totaling $45M. It is here as a 187kb Adobe Acrobat file.

In addition to the $45M/6 months grants disclosed in 2007, Lilly supports the Eli Lilly Foundation which distributes approx $26M per year. 

What to look for?
Many of the listed grants are unremarkable research grants to medical research centers. These are probably of least interest to citizens and journalists. Others are contributions to patient groups and a few others are for various functions and public awareness activities. These are of more interest.

Some patient groups don't disclose which, if any, drug companies they receive funding from and fewer still state specifically what funding was for. Despite this, such groups will often be cited in the media promoting a new drug, lobbying governments or making reassuring statements when safety concerns are expressed.

Posting the data into the cells below will help ensure the next time a citizen or journalist searches for funding information on some of the specific groups, they will come across the data that Lilly has disclosed.

What to add
Have a look through the list and have a look for any grants to groups you think are worth adding. Then add the details of the recipient, project description and amount -- in that order -- where "add data" currently is in the table below.

If you have any questions about how to do this project or just need a little help, feel free to email SourceWatch staff editor Bob Burton at bob[at]sourcewatch.org (replace the "[at]" with an "@" - done to prevent spam).

To reduce the file size of this page the entries of organizations with names in the A-K range have been shifted to '''Eli Lilly's Grants and Contributions (US)/Organizations Names Beginning With A-K

Other SourceWatch Resources

 * Drug industry
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