· Private foundation
Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of BLUE CROSS OF IDAHO FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH INC’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 · FY2024
- Under $10k206 grants · $269k
- $10k–50k43 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k31 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+2 grants · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $300,000 |
| IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $300,000 |
| IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $150,000 |
| THE COLLEGE OF IDAHO | $100,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| IDAHO HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE INC | $100,000 |
| LEAP CHARITIES INC | $100,000 |
| LEWIS-CLARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| PRIMARY CARE INITIATIVE | $100,000 |
| IDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| PRIMARY CARE INITIATIVE | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CITY OF DAYTON | $89,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $85,000 |
| IDAHO SCHOOL BOARD ASSOCIATION | $75,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $441k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 12% 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 +26% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
226 repeat relationships — 142 still active in FY2024, 84 since wound down; 100 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- ISIdaho State University Foundation Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +71%
- UOUniversity of Idaho Foundation Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +7%
- LCLEAP CHARITIES INC4× · 2021–2024 · $503k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- RIRural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Careone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -18%
- DBDOWNTOWN BOISE ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2021 · $120k · revenue -8%
- WCWASSMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS HOME OF THE ANNE FRANK MEMORIALone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -13%
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.
Public Education.
Public Education.
Public Education.
Public Education.
Public Education.
Public Education.
Public Education.
Public Education.
Public Education.
Public Education.
Public Education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Idaho Nonprofit Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care. 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 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
122 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. 122 of the 639 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 Idaho State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Idaho Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds IDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEAP CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds The College of Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds Boise State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LEWIS-CLARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care ↗
- Who funds Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children ↗
- Who funds JANNUS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TREASURE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN BOISE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ADA CO ID ↗
- Who funds WASSMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS HOME OF THE ANNE FRANK MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds THE JESSE TREE OF IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CASCADE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 · St Luke's Health System Ltd · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · The Julius C Jeker Foundation Inc · United Way of Treasure Valley Inc · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center Inc · Jeker Family 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 Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health 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.
- Education Northwest — 44% 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.