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Capital Matrix Inc at a glance

· Public charity

Capital Matrix Inc

To further economic development by promoting and assisting the growth and development of business in idaho, montana, washington, utah, and the eastern counties of oregon.

$94k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$512kEmployment$43kEducation$40kHuman Services$38kPublic Benefit$25kHealth$22kHousing & Shelter$17kPhilanthropy$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $88,659, the rows itemized in this filing. The $93,659 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $82k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLLEGE OF WESTERN IDAHO$21,659
GIRAFFE LAUGH EARLY LEARNING CENTER$15,000
IDAHO MANUFACTURING ALLIANCE$15,000
REDI FOUNDATION$10,000
LEARNING LAB$10,000
JANNUS INC$10,000
NEIGHBORWORKS$7,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GIRAFFE LAUGH EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $15k → 8%IDAHO HISPANIC FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%JANNUS INC: $25k → 8%Idaho Womens Business Center: $20k → 8%Idaho Womens Business Center: $20k → 8%Idaho Womens Business Center: $20k → 8%JANNUS INC: $13k → 8%JANNUS INC: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$408k · 5 repeat orgs$323k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
12

Total granted

$408k
$255k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
0%

Still filing today

100%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementReligionAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • MC
    MONTANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP
    3× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +334%
  • IH
    Idaho Hispanic Foundation Inc
    4× · 2019–2023 · $75k · revenue +289%
  • GD
    GALLATIN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DBA PROSPERA
    2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • IF
    Idaho Fund at MoFi
    one grant, 2019 · $65k
  • MF
    Montana Fund at MoFi
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • CO
    CITY OF CALDWELL
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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.

1
Indigenous Idaho Alliance Inc
Civil Rights
2
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
3
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
4
Idaho Technology Council Inc

To help technology companies in Idaho start, grow, and thrive.

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5
Valley County Economic Develop Dba West Central Mtn Eco Develo

Economic development for the west central mountain idaho region

Community Improvement
6
Idaho Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Inc

Represent and promote the interests of its members businesses through our programs,sponsorships, initiatives,and educational luncheons.

Community Improvement
7
Building Hope Idaho Inc
Philanthropy
8
Idaho Medical Association Foundation Inc
Health
9
Economic Development Corporation of Utah Foundation

To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.

Community Improvement
10
Eastern Plains Economic Development Corporation

To encourage, stimulate and promote economic development, expansion and diversification in southeastern montana

Community Improvement
11
Valley Vision Inc

To provide for the expansion of the employment base of Nez Perce County, by promoting the benefits of Nez Perce County to businesses and industries throughout the world that may have an interest in conducting operations in Nez Perce County.

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12
Montana Business Leadership Council

The mblc exists to encourage and enact business-friendly policies that create good-paying jobs and make montana a better place to live. the primary purpose of the mblc is to educate the public on important business issues, enable citizens…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jannus Inc; the most unlike its peers is Horse & Halo Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Idaho Fund at MoFi: $65,000 · OtherIdaho Fund at MoFiMontana Fund at MoFi: $50,000 · OtherMontana Fund at MoFiCITY OF CALDWELL: $25,000 · OtherCITY OF CALDWELLMERIDIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $25,000 · OtherMERIDIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCLEARNING LAB INC: $25,000 · OtherLEARNING LAB INCThe College of Western Idaho: $21,659 · OtherThe College of Western IdahoSWEET ZOLA'S CANDY SHOP: $20,000 · OtherSWEET ZOLA'S CANDY SHOPGALLATIN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DBA PROSPERA: $20,000 · OtherGALLATIN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DBA PROSPERAIdaho Manufacturing Alliance Inc: $15,000 · Other+5 more: $50,000 · Other+5 moreMONTANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $240,000 · Community ImprovementMONTANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP+1 more: $7,000 · Community ImprovementIdaho Hispanic Foundation Inc: $75,000 · Human ServicesIdaho Hispanic Founda…JANNUS INC: $48,000 · Human ServicesJANNUS INCGIRAFFE LAUGH INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesGIRAFFE LAUGH INCThe Momentum Group Create Common Good: $12,500 · ReligionHorse & Halo Inc: $10,000 · AnimalsNEIGHBORWORKS BOISE: $7,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$316,659Community Improvement$247,000Human Services$138,000Religion$12,500Animals$10,000Housing & Shelter$7,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMONTANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $240,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetIdaho Hispanic Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetJANNUS INC: $48,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMERIDIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetLEARNING LAB INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetGALLATIN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DBA PROSPERA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Momentum Group Create Common Good: $12,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetIdaho Economic Development Assoc: $7,000 over 1y, 13% of budget
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.

St Luke's Health Syst…Idaho Community Found…First Interstate Banc…United Way of Treasur…El& Bg Lightfoot Foun…Idaho Power Foundatio…Laura Moore Cunningha…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
St Luke's Health System LtdID17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Luke's Health System Ltd · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · United Way of Treasure Valley Inc · El& Bg Lightfoot Foundation · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Capital Matrix Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Capital Matrix Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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