· Private foundation
Boswell Family Foundation
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.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k43 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE ADVOCATES | $25,000 |
| THE CRISIS HOTLINE | $10,000 |
| MEN'S SECOND CHANCE LIVING | $7,500 |
| CALIFORNIA FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION | $5,200 |
| FLOURISH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE SPACE IDAHO INC | $5,000 |
| SAWTOOTH SPORTS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| STANLEY SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| BLAINE COUNTY RECREATION DISTRICT | $5,000 |
| BLAINE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WOOD RIVER FIRE & RESCUE | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE & PALLATIVE CARE OF THE WR VALLEY | $5,000 |
| THE SENIOR CONNECTION | $5,000 |
| THE HUNGER COALITION | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 3% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Boswell Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in ID; read by stated purpose it is 73% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 7 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2025 · $118k · revenue +98%
- BCBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +172%
- BCBLAINE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 61 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +127%
Funded once
- TSTHE SUN CITIES AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -37%
- TATHE ARGYROSone grant, 2022 · $5k
- HRHiatus Ranch of Idaho Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +3%
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.
The Idaho Wildlife Federation (IWF) promotes the conservation of Idaho's wildlife heritage and legacy of sporting opportunities for the current and future generations.
River and watershed restoration
The snake river fund is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to promoting stewardship of and public access to the snake river watershed in wyoming, with an emphasis on partnerships, education and public outreach.
Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.
Sheridan community land trust preserves our open spaces, healthy rivers and creeks, working ranches, wildlife habitat, and vibrant history, while expanding recreation opportunities to connect people with the places they love.
Provide community improvements for the rural idaho mountain communities of pine & featherville, idaho.
The mission of the teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.
Our mission is to protect, connect, and enhance wildlife habitat, working lands, and community spaces in southeast idaho, now and for future generations.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
Protect And Sustain Idaho's Fishing, Hunting And Wildlife Heritage For Present And Future Generations.
Snake River Waterkeeper exists for the purpose of applying science and law to protect, restore, and sustain waters of the Snake River Basin, and to support clean water access and advocacy in underserved communities worldwide.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sawtooth Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Word of Honor Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 104 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 ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 61 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds IDAHO RIVERS UNITED ↗
- Who funds The Space Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds SAWTOOTH SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FLOURISH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wood River Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Bald Mountain Rescue Fund ↗
- Who funds Sawtooth Sports Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CRISIS HOTLINE INC ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ARCH COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Word of Honor Fund ↗
- Who funds THE SUN CITIES AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEN'S SECOND CHANCE LIVING ↗
- Who funds THE SNAKE RIVER ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EXPEDITION INSPIRATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Sun Valley Realtors Give Inc ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER TRAILS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Hailey Rotary 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: Spur Community Foundation Inc · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Thrasher Koffey Foundation · Nancy Eccles and Homer M Hayward Family Foundation · Helios Foundation · Nicholas Martin Jr Family Foundation · Elizabeth a Lynn Foundation · Heinz Family Foundation · Resource Trust Inc · The Springcreek Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Pesky Family Foundation Inc
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 Boswell Family Foundation 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.
- Sea Education Association Inc — 12% 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.