About El& Bg Lightfoot Foundation C/O Us Bank Na
A defining feature of El& Bg Lightfoot Foundation C/o US Bank Na is the size of its scholarship awards to Idaho colleges and universities. Boise State University received $382,000 in 2025 after a $300,000 award in 2024, and the University of Idaho received $228,500 in 2025 and $143,500 in 2024. Those grants point to a foundation that uses substantial institutional scholarships to move students into higher education, while also backing a smaller set of community organizations tied to housing, family support, and safety.
The foundation’s recent activity is heavily education-centered, with scholarship support appearing alongside grants to organizations serving financially disadvantaged families and women and children. Its recent grant list includes recurring awards to schools in Boise, Moscow, Caldwell, Pocatello, Nampa, Rexburg, and Lewiston, showing sustained attention to postsecondary access within Idaho. A few larger community grants, including support for Jesse Tree of Idaho Inc and The Salvation Army, indicate that the foundation also funds basic-needs organizations in the same state. The pattern is direct and programmatic: scholarships are the largest visible line of giving, while community grants extend the same Idaho focus into housing and family-support work.
What El& Bg Lightfoot Foundation C/O Us Bank Na Funds
Postsecondary scholarship support is the clearest throughline in the grant record. The foundation gave $97,000 in 2025 to College of Idaho and $56,000 in 2024 to Northwest Nazarene University for scholarship purposes, alongside $58,500 in 2024 and $50,000 in 2025 to Idaho State University for scholarships.
Beyond colleges and universities, the foundation also funds housing and family-support organizations. It awarded $60,000 in both 2024 and 2025 to Jesse Tree of Idaho Inc, a Boise-based recipient in the recent grants list. In another lane, it gave $54,000 in 2025 and $53,000 in 2024 to Womens Childrens Alliance, showing support for services connected to women and children. The record also includes $50,000 grants in 2024 and 2025 to The Salvation Army and $50,000 in 2024 to American Red Cross, underscoring a practical orientation toward human services.
How El& Bg Lightfoot Foundation C/O Us Bank Na Gives
Typical grants cluster at a modest nonprofit scale: the 25th percentile is $2,500, the median is $4,500, and the 75th percentile is $12,500. That distribution sits alongside a small number of much larger scholarship awards, which pull the average upward. The pattern is also repetitive rather than one-off: Boise State University, University of Idaho, Jesse Tree of Idaho Inc, Northwest Nazarene University, Idaho State University, College of Idaho, and The Salvation Army all appear in more than one year. The foundation gives as a private foundation and also funds individuals, with no program-related investments reported. Several active programs accept unsolicited applications.