· Private foundation
W Darrell Kilton Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $188k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $936k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $162,000 |
| Litchfield CUSD #12 | $162,000 |
| HSHS St Francis Hospital | $130,000 |
| The Next Network | $130,000 |
| City of Litchfield | $109,000 |
| Litchfield Unlimited Corporation | $100,000 |
| Litchfield CUSD #12 | $78,000 |
| Lincoln Land Community College | $65,000 |
| Litchfield Community Youth Development Program | $49,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $33,000 |
| Hearts United Association | $20,540 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,000 |
| Litchfield Community Partners | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| First Baptist Church Litchfield | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +3% since the first grant, against -23% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 8 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SFSt Francis Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Francis6× · 2019–2025 · $930k · revenue +13%
- HUHearts United Associaiton7× · 2019–2025 · $160k · revenue +3%
- ECElmwood Cemetery Association2× · 2019–2020 · $45k · revenue +7% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- TNThe Nextone grant, 2023 · $60k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $15k
- LMLRM Missionsone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide ambulance service to community
Open/Close graves for burial, show and sell grave sites, monuments, and foundations, mowing/snow removal, trimming, leaf removal, record keeping, maintain deeds
Maintain medians & shoulders on Route 17
Cemetery Association
Operation of local history and art museum and promotion of local history and art.
Recreational Youth Soccer, Ages 5 to 18
Preserving the history and cultural artifacts from the Western Pennsylvania town of Leechburg.
Museum
Ambulance and EMT service.
public museum
Maintaining the Lake Shore Railway Museum and all exhibits
Help ensure protection of open space land in the town of Litchfield CT by acquiring conservation easements and properties to be held in fee simple in their natural state in perpetuity and by informing and educating the public of the…
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 55 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Litchfield Unlimited Corporation ↗
- Who funds St Francis Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Francis ↗
- Who funds Hearts United Associaiton ↗
- Who funds Elmwood Cemetery Association ↗
- Who funds Cross Over Ministries NFP ↗
- Who funds Litchfield Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY CANCER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization W Darrell Kilton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W Darrell Kilton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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