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Litchfield Memorial Student Loan Fund Inc at a glance

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Litchfield Memorial Student Loan Fund Inc

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.

$29k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$348k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$5,360
Median grant
1
States reached
$636k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY$10,720
HOPKINSVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$5,360
CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSITY$5,360
WEST KY COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE$2,680
WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY$2,680
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY$2,680
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BRESCIA UNIVERSITY: $4k → 13%ALISON RUSSELL: $4k → 14%MIDWAY UNIVERSITY: $4k → 17%CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 18%HOPKINSVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $16k → 18%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $25k → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $23k → 19%HANNAH MAJOR HEMP: $4k → 14%HOPKINSVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $5k → 18%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $12k → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 19%GRAYSON FORD: $4k → 14%BETHAL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 18%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $5k → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 19%VICTORIA RICKS: $4k → 14%HOPKINSVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $4k → 18%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $3k → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $18k → 19%TAYLOR GRAY: $4k → 14%HOPKINSVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $3k → 18%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $3k → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $17k → 19%DAKOTA SHEMWELL: $4k → 14%HOPKINSVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 18%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $3k → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $11k → 19%NATHAN FULLER: $3k → 14%HOPKINSVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 18%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $2k → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $9k → 19%SETH FUTRELL: $2k → 14%HOPKINSVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 18%TAYLOR GRAY: $2k → 14%GRAYSON FORD: $2k → 14%MANDEE SCHERMERHORN: $2k → 14%VICTORIA RICKS: $2k → 14%HANNAH FUTRELL: $2k → 14%ALISON RUSSELL: $2k → 14%TYLER JAMES LADD: $2k → 14%DAKOTA SHEMWELL: $2k → 14%AUTUMN STEWART: $2k → 14%ANNE MARIE MCATEE: $2k → 14%KI'ROME BINGHAM: $2k → 14%NOAH STRICKLAND: $2k → 14%RACHEL CRAVENS: $2k → 14%DESTINY NOLAND: $2k → 14%MADISON BLAKELEY: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$293k · 14 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
32

Total granted

$293k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-19%
+29%

Still filing today

7%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MS
    MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $117k
  • WK
    WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $53k
  • HC
    HOPKINSVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $35k

Funded once

  • BU
    BETHAL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • BRESCIA UNIVERSITY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue -4%
  • MU
    MIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +9%
How this is measured

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

04Its field
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $117,170 · OtherMURRAY STATE UNIVERSITYWESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $53,280 · OtherWESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITYHOPKINSVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $34,885 · OtherHOPKINSVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: $28,655 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKYUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE: $14,425 · Other+34 more: $80,030 · Other+34 moreCampbellsville University Inc: $6,910 · EducationBRESCIA UNIVERSITY INC: $4,200 · EducationMIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE: $4,000 · EducationASBURY COLLEGE: $1,550 · EducationGEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $1,000 · EducationFREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · Education
Other$328,445Education$19,660

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCampbellsville University Inc: $6,910 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRESCIA UNIVERSITY INC: $4,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASBURY COLLEGE: $1,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

  • Who funds Campbellsville University Inc ↗
  • Who funds BRESCIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ASBURY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

John B & Brownie Youn…The Community Foundat…Baird Foundation IncCharles Eades Scholar…Flora Hornbeck Schola…Independence Foundati…Woldenberg FoundationThe Ohio Foundation o…Goldring Family Found…The Community Foundat…Willmott J Truw J Wil…Willmott J Truw L Wil…
John B & Brownie Young Memorial FundKY20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John B & Brownie Young Memorial Fund · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Charles Eades Scholarship Trust Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Flora Hornbeck Scholarship Tr · Independence Foundation Inc · Woldenberg Foundation · The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges · Goldring Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Willmott J Truw J Willmott S · Willmott J Truw L Willmott S

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Litchfield Memorial Student Loan Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Litchfield Memorial Student Loan Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%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 · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Litchfield Memorial Student Loan Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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