This is an interesting conversation. According to Basham, Lilly is not a Christian organization because they provide money to non-Christian causes. Thus to recived money from them is suspect. Lilly Endowment funds a wide variety of projects. I would be surprised if all of those projects are Christian. I am not going to argue whether Lilly is Christian or not and in fact for the sake of argument I will stipulate that at the very least it is not evangelical and will support some stuff I do not like. About 25 years ago, I was part of a reserach team that recieved a nice Lilly grant to study multiracial church. From that research I wrote a Christian book - One Body, One Spirit - that helped a lot of churches become racially diverse. Other work has used Lilly money to do great things for evangelicals specifically and the Body in general. Should we have tuned down that money to remain "pure."? I do not think that turning down resources to remain pure is scriptural. As long as the organization does not force me to work towards non-Christian ends, it did not make me less of a Christian to use the money from Lilly to do good things. When the Israelies left Egypt to go to the promised land, the Egyptians (Exodus 12:36). God allowed them to plunder the Egyptians. There were a lot of ways the Israelies sinned during that period of time. That was not one of them. So even if Lilly is not a Christian organization, so what? What did organizations do with the money is what I care about. If they repurpose the money to further the Kingdom them so much the better. Painting people as sold out because they recieved money from an organization we do not trust is short sighted and inaccurate. Show me what they do with the money and then we can talk.