· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k32 grants · $127k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY RESOURCE ENVISION CENTER | $20,000 |
| SANDPOINT AREA SENIORS INC | $20,000 |
| PRIEST RIVER MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA PROGRA | $20,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| BONNER COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY CANCER SERVICES | $15,000 |
| PANIDA THEATER COMMITTEE INC | $15,000 |
| PAWSITIVE OUTREACH SPAYNEUTER ALLI | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 Sandpoint Youth Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Panhandle Alliance for Education ↗
- 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 ANGELS OVER SANDPOINT ↗
- Who funds PEND OREILLE ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SELKIRK CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds EUREKA INSTITUTE INC (THE) ↗
- Who funds SELKIRK OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP & EDUCAT ION ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Equinox Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Equinox Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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