How much does Boswell Family Foundation give?

Boswell Family Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $191,268 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Boswell Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (18%), Community Improvement (13%), Health (12%).

Who are Boswell Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Luke's Wood River Foundation Inc ($118k), Blaine County Hunger Coalition Inc ($108k), Blaine County School District No 61 Education Foundation Inc ($86k).

Does Boswell Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Boswell Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Boswell Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Spur Community Foundation Inc, Idaho Community Foundation Inc, Thrasher Koffey Foundation.

Where is Boswell Family Foundation based?

Boswell Family Foundation is based in ID.

Boswell Family Foundation

Boswell Family Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$191k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$277kCommunity Improvement$202kHealth$193kCrime & Legal$190kFood & Nutrition$184kRecreation & Sports$138kHuman Services$123kEnvironment$118kOther$0

02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k43 grants · $106k
$10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$4.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
SAWTOOTH SPORTS FOUNDATION	$5,000
HOSPICE & PALLATIVE CARE OF THE WR VALLEY	$5,000
WOOD RIVER FIRE & RESCUE	$5,000
THE SPACE IDAHO INC	$5,000
BLAINE COUNTY RECREATION DISTRICT	$5,000
FLOURISH FOUNDATION	$5,000
BLAINE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$5,000
STANLEY SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION	$5,000
THE SENIOR CONNECTION	$5,000
THE HUNGER COALITION	$4,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Boswell Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in ID; by stated purpose, 73%.

Boswell Family Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.5M · 67 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.5M

$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+22%

Still filing today

64%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

SL
ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC
5× · 2017–2025 · $118k · revenue +144%
BC
BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +172%
BC
BLAINE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 61 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +127%

Funded once

TS
THE SUN CITIES AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -37%
HR
Hiatus Ranch of Idaho Inc
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +3%
TA
THE ARGYROS
one grant, 2022 · $5k

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.

04Its field

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.

Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership

Environment

Idaho Wildlife Federation

The Idaho Wildlife Federation (IWF) promotes the conservation of Idaho's wildlife heritage and legacy of sporting opportunities for the current and future generations.

Animals

Ecosystem Sciences Foundation Inc

River and watershed restoration

Environment

Snake River Fund

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.

Environment

Sierra Watch

Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.

Environment

Sheridan Community Land Trust

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.

Environment

South Fork Boise River Association

Provide community improvements for the rural idaho mountain communities of pine & featherville, idaho.

Human Services

Teton Regional Land Trust Inc

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.

Environment

Sagebrush Steppe Land Trust Inc

Our mission is to protect, connect, and enhance wildlife habitat, working lands, and community spaces in southeast idaho, now and for future generations.

Environment

The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment

Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundation

Protect And Sustain Idaho's Fishing, Hunting And Wildlife Heritage For Present And Future Generations.

Animals

Snake River Waterkeeper Inc

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.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sawtooth Society Inc; 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.

05the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 104 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

64/64

Grantees still filing

42/64

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,040,497Health$148,965Food & Nutrition$107,650Human Services$105,642Environment$81,234Recreation & Sports$48,519Education$33,223

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.

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.

Spur Community Foundation IncID66.1× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Boswell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boswell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home