Wisconsin · Private foundation
El& Bg Lightfoot Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 120
- Grants FY2025
- 104
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $382,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 104 to 160
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 23
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations El& Bg Lightfoot Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $301k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 109 | $1.7M | 55% |
| FY2024 | 104 | $1.7M | 48% |
| FY2023 | 157 | $1.8M | 69% |
| FY2022 | 114 | $1.5M | 56% |
| FY2021 | 121 | $1.6M | 61% |
| FY2020 | 108 | $1.5M | 62% |
| FY2019 | 109 | $1.4M | 57% |
| FY2018 | 160 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The College of Idaho Inc | $622,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $435,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Northwest Nazarene University Inc | $425,750 | 8 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $335,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Idaho State University | $320,500 | 8 | n/a |
| The Jesse Tree of Idaho Inc | $300,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Brigham Young University-Idaho | $232,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Treasure Valley Habitat for Humanity Inc | $190,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Boise Rescue Mission | $163,238 | 8 | n/a |
| Catch Inc | $162,500 | 6 | 2% |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 577 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget El& Bg Lightfoot Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · Idaho Womens Charitable Foundation · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · St Luke's Health System Ltd · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · United Way of Treasure Valley Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Idaho Housing Foundation
How this is measured
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About El& Bg Lightfoot Foundation
- How much does El& Bg Lightfoot Foundation give?
- El& Bg Lightfoot Foundation reported 120 grants totaling $1,715,694 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 104 and 160 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does El& Bg Lightfoot Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (66%), Human Services (15%), Housing & Shelter (7%).
- Who are El& Bg Lightfoot Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The College of Idaho Inc ($622k), The Salvation Army ($435k), Northwest Nazarene University Inc ($426k).
- Does El& Bg Lightfoot Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does El& Bg Lightfoot Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as El& Bg Lightfoot Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Idaho Community Foundation Inc, Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc, Idaho Power Foundation Inc.
- Where is El& Bg Lightfoot Foundation based?
- El& Bg Lightfoot Foundation is based in WI.
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