· Private foundation
Jerry Litton Family Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILLICOTHE R-II SCHOOLS CHILLICOTHE MO | $52,934 |
| CHILLICOTHE FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CHILLICOTHE MO | $41,246 |
| LIVINGSTON COUNTY EXTENSION COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $9,800 |
| MISSOURI FFA ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| PONY EXPRESS COUNCIL | $2,500 |
| GRAND RIVER TECHNICAL SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TROOP 120 | $2,000 |
| PLATTSBURG HUSTLERS 4-H CLUB | $2,000 |
| MISSOURI ASSOCIATION OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC | $400 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +120% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CECHILLICOTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $155k · revenue +30%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES9× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +120%
- MAMISSOURI ASSOCIATION OF SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS8× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue ×19
Funded once
- COCITY OF CHILLICOTHE MISSOURIone grant, 2017 · $20k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA-FORKNER LIVESTOCK JUDGING ENDOWMENTone grant, 2021 · $10k
- TLTHE LIVINGSTON COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +32%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To educate the public about agriculture
The foundation's mission is to support projects that promote sound agricultural practices, growth in agribusiness and agritourism, international agricultural exports, urban agriculture, food safety, farm safety practices, youth development…
To make a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth, and career success through agricultural education.
Provide significant educational opportunities through environmental, agricultural, conservational and horticultural events and programs including the annual schuylkill county fair
Education related to the forage and grassland industry
To support agricultural education in tennessee
The primary mission of the association is to promote agriculture in saline county, missouri, and to honor the history of agriculture.
To promote agriculture education and the State of Tennessee to the public.
To improve the economic well being of agriculture in our communities
The organization's mission is to provide funds for research and education in agriculture in the state of mississippi.
The missouri ffa foundation exists to support the missouri ffa association and its members.
The indiana ffa association is dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri 4-H Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Missouri Association of Soil & Water Conservation Districts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 32 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 CHILLICOTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI ASSOCIATION OF SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI STATE FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LIVINGSTON COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Livingston County 4-H & FFA Fair Association Inc ↗
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.
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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 Jerry Litton Family Memorial Foundation 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.
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.
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