· Private foundation
El& Bg Lightfoot Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of EL& BG LIGHTFOOT FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k92 grants · $321k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $420k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $593k
- $250k+1 grant · $382k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY | $382,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO | $228,500 |
| COLLEGE OF IDAHO | $97,000 |
| JESSE TREE OF IDAHO INC | $60,000 |
| WOMENS CHILDRENS ALLIANCE | $54,000 |
| NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY | $53,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
| IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| ADVOCATES AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE | $37,684 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY-IDAHO | $36,000 |
| LEWIS CLARK STATE COLLEGE | $32,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $30,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $30,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY-NORTH IDAHO | $25,000 |
| CHARITABLE ASSIST TO COMM HOMELESS | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +16% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
141 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 92 since wound down; 60 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $239k 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
- TCThe College of Idaho Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $622k · revenue +76%
- NNNORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $426k · revenue +30%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches7× · 2018–2025 · $335k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- FFFUNDS FOR HURRICANE RELIEFone grant, 2023 · $100k
- HCHAWAI'I COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - MAUIone grant, 2024 · $100k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY CAPIAL CAMPAIGNone grant, 2019 · $50k
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.
Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.
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.
Independent colleges of washington is the leading advocate for not-for-profit, private campuses in washington state.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Upper iowa university provides quality educational opportunities accessible through varied delivery methods to inspire success and empower lives.
Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance iowa state university's land grant ideals.
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.
The mission of the University of Western States is to advance the science and art of integrated health care through excellence in education and patient care.
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jannus Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
57 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 648 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 The College of Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE JESSE TREE OF IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds TREASURE VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds Women's and Children's Alliance ↗
- Who funds IDAHO FOUNDATION FOR PARKS AND LANDS ↗
- Who funds JANNUS INC ↗
- Who funds La Posada Inc ↗
- Who funds LEAP CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds LEARNING LAB INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
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.
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
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 El& Bg Lightfoot 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.
- Corban University — 3% of income from government
- University of Portland — 1% of income from government
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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