· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| IDAHO HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| ST LUKES | $20,000 |
| FACES OF HOPE | $20,000 |
| PRODIGAL SON FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| LOWER BOISE WATERSHED COUNCIL | $12,000 |
| BOISE RIVER ENHANCEMENT NETWORK | $10,000 |
| ONE REFUGEE | $10,000 |
| MARRIOT SCHOOL NAC | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| BUILDING HOPE TODAY | $5,000 |
| WYAKIN FOUNDATION | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SLSt Luke's Health Foundation Ltd2× · 2019–2025 · $110k · revenue +197%
- 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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 53 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 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 Boise Farmers Market Inc ↗
- Who funds STANLEY SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bates Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bates Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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