· Private foundation
Bates Family Foundation 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
77% of Bates Family Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Bates Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $567k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2021
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $131k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
- $250k+1 grant · $365k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS | $365,358 |
| INTERFAITH SANCTUARY SHELTER | $50,913 |
| Individual grant recipient | $24,000 |
| ST LUKES | $20,000 |
| FACES OF HOPE | $20,000 |
| IDAHO HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| PRODIGAL SON FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| LOWER BOISE WATERSHED COUNCIL | $12,000 |
| ONE REFUGEE | $10,000 |
| BOISE RIVER ENHANCEMENT NETWORK | $10,000 |
| MARRIOT SCHOOL NAC | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| BUILDING HOPE TODAY | $5,000 |
| WYAKIN FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 68% 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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2021, 12 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- SLSt Luke's Health Foundation Ltd2× · 2019–2025 · $110k · revenue +72%
- CHCARING HEARTS INTERNATIONAL4× · 2017–2020 · $105k · revenue +41%
- BHBUILDING HOPE TODAY INC4× · 2021–2025 · $29k · revenue +224%
Funded once
- TBTIM BALLARD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $60k
- LSLATTER-DAY SAINT HUMANITARIAN CENTERone grant, 2019 · $40k
- IMINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RELIEFone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +16%
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 preserve and protect, for public benefit, open space lands and unique natural, scenic settings throughout the state of idaho utilizing various flexible conservation methods.
Research assistance to the dairy industry.
Our mission is to protect, connect, and enhance wildlife habitat, working lands, and community spaces in southeast idaho, now and for future generations.
The Idaho Law Foundation maintains a continuing legal education program and administers grants to 1) educate the public, 2) provide legal services to the state's indigent, 3) develop programs to improve the administration of justice and…
Idaho legal aid services inc is a statewide nonprofit law firm dedicated to providing equal access for low-income people through quality advocacy and education
The mission of the Foundation is to stimulate voluntary private support from alumni, parents, friends, corporations, foundations, and others for the benefit of the University and its students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Idaho Botanical Garden Inc and the most unlike its peers is Prodigal Son Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 53 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds St Luke's Health Foundation Ltd ↗
- Who funds CARING HEARTS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BOISE RIVER ENHANCEMENT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH SANCTUARY HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING HOPE TODAY INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER BOISE WATERSHED COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Lifting Hands International ↗
- Who funds Prodigal Son Foundation ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RELIEF ↗
- Who funds SOBRIETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR IDAHO HISTORY ↗
- Who funds IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds STANLEY SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
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 · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Obsidian Foundation Inc · Harad Family Foundation · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Bates Family Foundation Inc 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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