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· Private foundation

Elizabeth S Baker Trust Bank & Trust Company Trustee

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$149k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$532kPublic Safety & Disaster$200kFood & Nutrition$88kYouth Development$81kReligion$71kHealth$58kHuman Services$44kArts & Culture$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $111k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UACC Pantry Pals Program$30,000
Zion Lutheran School$26,005
Hearts United$26,000
Litchfield Early Childhood Center$18,020
MAKE IT Program$11,000
Litchfield Comm School Dist$6,000
The Next Network$5,500
Individual grant recipient$5,122
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Litchfield Community Youth Development Program$3,000
The Salvation Army$2,000
Operation Elf of Litchfield IL$1,500
University of Illinois$1,000
Litchfield Museum and Route 66 Welcome Center$1,000
Litchfield Post Prom Committee$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Zion Lutheran School: $38k → 15%Hearts United: $34k → 15%MAKE IT Program: $31k → 15%UACC Pantry Pals Program: $30k → 15%Zion Lutheran School: $30k → 15%Hearts United: $29k → 15%MAKE IT Program: $28k → 15%Zion Lutheran School: $27k → 15%Zion Lutheran School: $27k → 15%Union Avenue Christian Church: $24k → 21%Zion Lutheran School: $26k → 15%Union Avenue Christian Church: $10k → 21%Hearts United: $26k → 15%Union Avenue Christian Church: $7k → 21%Hearts United: $26k → 15%Zion Lutheran School: $26k → 15%Zion Lutheran School: $25k → 15%Hearts United: $23k → 15%MAKE IT Program: $22k → 15%Zion Lutheran School: $21k → 15%MAKE IT Program: $20k → 15%UACC Pantry Pals Program: $20k → 15%MAKE IT Program: $20k → 15%MAKE IT Program: $20k → 15%Youth United: $19k → 15%Litchfield Early Childhood Center: $18k → 15%MAKE IT Program: $18k → 15%St Francis Hospital: $17k → 15%Hearts United: $17k → 15%Hearts United: $16k → 15%Hearts United: $15k → 15%MAKE IT Program: $11k → 15%First Baptist Church of Litchfield: $11k → 15%First Baptist Church of Litchfield: $10k → 15%Hearts United: $10k → 15%Youth United: $10k → 15%Litchfield Christmas Basket: $10k → 15%Litchfield Christmas Basket: $10k → 15%Zion Lutheran School: $9k → 15%Youth United: $9k → 15%The Next Network: $9k → 15%Youth United: $8k → 15%Youth United: $7k → 15%Operation Elf of Litchfield IL: $6k → 15%The Next Network: $6k → 15%Litchfield Christmas Basket: $6k → 15%Litchfield Comm School Dist: $6k → 15%Litchfield Public Library: $6k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 37 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
11

Total granted

$1.1M
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
0%

Still filing today

16%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WARREN WILSON COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +78%
  • BU
    BLACKBURN UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +17%
  • LM
    Litchfield Museum & Route 66 Welcome Center
    6× · 2019–2025 · $8k · revenue +180%

Funded once

  • LR
    Latter Rain Missions and Ministries Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Whitworth University

Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars.

Education
2
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
3
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
4
Wisconsin Lutheran College Inc

Wisconsin lutheran college is a private, four-year liberal arts college.

5
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
6
Lincoln Memorial University

Lincoln memorial university is a values-based learning community dedicated to providing educational experiences in the liberal arts and professional studies.

Education
7
LaGrange College

Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

Education
8
Linfield University

Linfield university advances a vision of learning, life, and community that promotes intellectual challenge and creativity, values both theoretical and practical knowledge, engages thoughtful dialogue in a climate of mutual respect and…

Education
9
Michigan State University College of Law

The mission of the michigan state university college of law is to provide a rigorous educational program which prepares a diverse community of students to be national and international leaders in private legal practice, business and…

10
Illinois Wesleyan University

The university strives to attain the ideal of a liberal arts education while providing unique opportunities with its distinctive curricula and programs. a liberal arts education fosters creativity, critical thinking, effective…

Education
11
Beloit College

See schedule obeloit college engages the intelligence, imagination, and curiosity of its students, empowering them to lead fulfilling lives marked by high achievement, personal responsibility, and public contribution in a diverse society.…

Education
12
Lawrence University of Wisconsin

Lawrence university of wisconsin, through its undergraduate residential college and conservatory of music, educates students in the liberal arts and sciences. the university is devoted to excellence and integrity in all of its activities…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Millikin University and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Zion Lutheran School — $229,630 · OtherZion Lutheran SchoolHearts United — $195,055 · OtherHearts UnitedMAKE IT Program — $171,900 · OtherMAKE IT ProgramUACC Pantry Pals Program — $63,945 · OtherUACC Pantry Pals ProgramYouth United — $58,100 · OtherUNION AVENUE CHRISTIAN CHURCH — $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $38,613 · Other+40 more — $322,717 · Other+40 moreWARREN WILSON COLLEGE — $9,000 · EducationBLACKBURN UNIVERSITY — $9,000 · EducationMILLIKIN UNIVERSITY — $4,500 · EducationLitchfield Museum & Route 66 Welcome Center — $7,650 · Arts & CultureFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentMEALS ON WHEELS — $3,000 · Food & NutritionLitchfield Unlimited Corporation — $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,119,960Education$22,500Arts & Culture$7,650Youth Development$3,000Food & Nutrition$3,000Recreation & Sports$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWARREN WILSON COLLEGE — $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBLACKBURN UNIVERSITY — $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLitchfield Museum & Route 66 Welcome Center — $7,650 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS — $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMILLIKIN UNIVERSITY — $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLitchfield Unlimited Corporation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds WARREN WILSON COLLEGE
  • Who funds BLACKBURN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Litchfield Museum & Route 66 Welcome Center
  • Who funds ELIZABETH ANN SETON PROGRAM
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  • Who funds MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

W Darrell Kilton FoundationIL15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: W Darrell Kilton Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Elizabeth S Baker Trust Bank & Trust Company Trustee funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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