· Private foundation
First Federal Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| USCRI REFUGEE PROGRAMS | $5,000 |
| RISING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CTR | $5,000 |
| IDAHO FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| ASTEGOS INC | $5,000 |
| CASTLEFORD SCHOOL DISTRICT | $4,998 |
| TWIN FALLS COUNTY FAIR | $4,998 |
| TWIN FALLS SCHOLL DISTRICT SPECIAL | $4,800 |
| MINIKOKA COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION DIS | $4,800 |
| LOVE YOURSELF | $4,695 |
| SOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PSHP | $4,615 |
| AGELESS SENIOR CITIZENS | $4,404 |
| MAGIC MOUNTAIN SKI PATROL | $3,660 |
| BOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER | $3,500 |
| COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN IDAHO | $3,221 |
| SO CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH DISTRICT | $3,160 |
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 (FY18–24, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 77% 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.
33 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MAGIC VALLEY3× · 2019–2022 · $12k · revenue +74%
- MSMUSTARD SEED MINISTRIES INC2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +8%
- FSFiler Senior Haven Inc3× · 2018–2020 · $9k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- TFTWIN FALLS LIONS CLUBone grant, 2022 · $6k
- KHKIMBERLY HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALLone grant, 2022 · $6k
- IRIDAHO REGIONAL ROBOTICS INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -42%
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.
Providing religious service for adults and youths
Free Newsletters to support our mission of informing the public about the services available to them, voting items and events.
PRIMARY EXEMPT PURPOSE: We are committed to providing a safe, positive, creative environment where teens are able to relax, socialize and participate in both supervised and self-directed activities designed to develop leadership qualities,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Council of Idaho Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blanket Blessings Inc. 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 12 years old; the field is 12. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 148 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 TWIN FALLS OPTIMIST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of South Central Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MAGIC VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Filer Senior Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds Buhl Family Network Inc ↗
- Who funds Oakley Valley Arts Council ↗
- Who funds WEST END SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIVING INDEPENDENCE NETWORK COPORATION ↗
- Who funds Blanket Blessings Inc ↗
- Who funds SAGE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SIMPLY HOPE FAMILY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO REGIONAL ROBOTICS INC ↗
- Who funds MAGIC VALLEY FELLOWSHIP HALL INC ↗
- Who funds RISING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASTEGOS INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds EVERYBODY HOUSE ↗
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: Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Janice Seagraves Family Foundation Inc · St Luke's Health System Ltd · Twin Falls County Health Initiatives Trustltd · St Luke's Magic Valley Regional Medical Center Ltd · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Racing for Charity Inc · Magic Valley Festival of Giving Inc · Idaho Foodbank Warehouse · Browning Charitable Foundation · Idaho Power 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 First Federal 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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