· Private foundation
Equinox Foundation 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
64% of Equinox Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Innovia Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Equinox Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 27 organizations, $346k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k32 grants · $127k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA PROGRA | $20,000 |
| SANDPOINT AREA SENIORS INC | $20,000 |
| PRIEST RIVER MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY RESOURCE ENVISION CENTER | $20,000 |
| PAWSITIVE OUTREACH SPAYNEUTER ALLI | $15,000 |
| BONNER COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| PANIDA THEATER COMMITTEE INC | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY CANCER SERVICES | $15,000 |
| VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC | $12,500 |
| KANIKSU LAND TRUST | $12,000 |
| PANHANDLE ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION IN | $10,000 |
| BOUNDARY COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 101 | $10,000 |
| MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT IN | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE SHELTER DBA BETTER T | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
50 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2022, 19 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, 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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- KLKaniksu Land Trust Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $789k · revenue +10% · 33% of their budget
- MCMUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT5× · 2018–2022 · $145k · revenue +111%
- SASandpoint Area Seniors Inc6× · 2017–2023 · $52k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ CTYone grant, 2017 · $255k
- ININLAND NORTHWEST FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $248k
- SRSANDPOINT RESOURCE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +60%
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.
Our mission is to work with landowners and communities to conserve the lands we love, now and forever, and to enrich connections to the natural world.
Implement an integrated marketing program to inspire, inform, educate, and facilitate the decision making process of visitors to the area.
Free public radio
Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…
Provide community improvements for the rural idaho mountain communities of pine & featherville, idaho.
The Spokane River Forums mission is to create materials, events and activities that promote regional dialogues for sustaining a healthy river system while meeting the needs of a growing population.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sandpoint Area Seniors Inc and the most unlike its peers is Northwest Abortion Access 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 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 81 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 Innovia Foundation ↗
- Who funds Kaniksu Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT ↗
- Who funds Sandpoint Area Seniors Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Cancer Services Inc ↗
- Who funds PEND OREILLE PEDALERS ↗
- Who funds BONNER COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PAWSITIVE OUTREACH SPAY NEUTER ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds Panida Theater Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE PEND OREILLE WATERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds Panhandle Alliance for Education ↗
- Who funds Sandpoint Youth Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BONNER COUNTY HOMELESS TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SCOTCHMAN PEAKS WILDERNESS INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SANDPOINT NORDIC CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds SANDPOINT RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds PEND OREILLE ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OVER SANDPOINT ↗
- Who funds SELKIRK CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds EUREKA INSTITUTE INC (THE) ↗
- Who funds SELKIRK OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP & EDUCAT ION ↗
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: Innovia Foundation · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · The Avista Foundation · Community Assistance League Inc · The Robert I Wishnick Foundation Dba the William Wishnick Foundation · Hymowitz Family Foundation · The Confidence Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Star Peak Foundation · United Way of North Idaho Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · The Van Vleet Foundation
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 Equinox Foundation 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.
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.
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