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First Federal Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$105k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$110kEducation$97kRecreation & Sports$88kArts & Culture$70kHealth$59kYouth Development$47kPublic Safety & Disaster$41kFood & Nutrition$36kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,940
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASTEGOS INC$5,000
USCRI REFUGEE PROGRAMS$5,000
IDAHO FOOD BANK$5,000
RISING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CTR$5,000
TWIN FALLS COUNTY FAIR$4,998
CASTLEFORD SCHOOL DISTRICT$4,998
MINIKOKA COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION DIS$4,800
TWIN FALLS SCHOLL DISTRICT SPECIAL$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ASTEGOS INC: $5k → 8%WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $5k → 8%COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF IDAHO: $4k → 11%THE MAGIC VALLEY AREA HUMANITARIAN: $4k → 12%JEROME LITTLE TIGER PRESCHOOL: $3k → 12%HELPING HEARTS AND HANDS INC: $2k → 13%HELPING HEARTS AND HANDS INC: $2k → 13%LIVING INDEPENDENCE NETWORK: $4k → 8%MINIDOKA COUNTY SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 12%AGELESS SENIOR CITIZENS: $4k → 11%WEST END SENIOR CITIZENS: $3k → 11%WEST END SENIOR CITIZENS: $3k → 11%MUSTARD SEED MINISTRIES: $7k → 11%MUSTARD SEED MINISTRIES: $3k → 11%LIVING INDEPENDENCE NETWORK: $2k → 11%BLANKET BLESSINGS: $2k → 11%BLANKET BLESSINGS: $2k → 11%BLANKET BLESSINGS INC: $2k → 11%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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$244k · 33 repeat orgs$395k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
89

Total granted

$244k
$308k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+20%

Still filing today

45%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MAGIC VALLEY
    3× · 2019–2022 · $12k · revenue +74%
  • MS
    MUSTARD SEED MINISTRIES INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +28%
  • FS
    Filer Senior Haven Inc
    3× · 2018–2020 · $9k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • TF
    TWIN FALLS LIONS CLUB
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
  • KH
    KIMBERLY HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
  • IR
    IDAHO REGIONAL ROBOTICS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -42%
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
Building Hope Idaho Inc
Philanthropy
2
Indigenous Idaho Alliance Inc
Civil Rights
3
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
4
Idaho Operation Lifesaver
—
5
Brave Hearts Idaho
Arts & Culture
6
Idaho Elks Rehab Hospital Inc
Health
7
Underdogs Boise
Arts & Culture
8
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
9
Harvest Church Idaho Inc

Providing religious service for adults and youths

Religion
10
Hagerman I D E a Inc

Free Newsletters to support our mission of informing the public about the services available to them, voting items and events.

Community Improvement
11
Idaho Hispanic Foundation Inc
Human Services
12
Sandpoint Youth Center Inc

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,…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Council of Idaho Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 148 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/51
Grantees still filing
32/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+120 more: $476,608 · Other+120 moreMUSTARD SEED MINISTRIES INC: $10,064 · Human ServicesMUSTARD SEED…WEST END SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER: $6,317 · Human ServicesWEST END SEN…LIVING INDEPENDENCE NETWORK COPORATION: $6,142 · Human ServicesLIVING INDEP…Blanket Blessings Inc: $6,000 · Human ServicesBlanket Bles…ASTEGOS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesASTEGOS INCEVERYBODY HOUSE: $5,000 · Human ServicesEVERYBODY HO…RISING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesRISING STARS…Women's and Children's Alliance: $4,861 · Human ServicesWomen's and …AGELESS SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $4,404 · Human ServicesAGELESS SENI…COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF IDAHO INC: $4,255 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CO…Magic Valley Area Humanitarian Center: $4,121 · Human ServicesMagic Valley…HELPING HEARTS AND HANDS INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesJEROME LITTLE TIGERS PRESCHOOL & DAYCARE INC: $3,437 · Human ServicesMINIDOKA COUNTY SENIOR CENTER INC: $2,500 · Human Services+1 more: $1,775 · Human ServicesSAGE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $5,590 · HealthSIMPLY HOPE FAMILY OUTREACH INC: $5,415 · HealthTOUGH ENOUGH TO WEAR PINK INC: $4,770 · HealthTHE WALKER CENTER FOR ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE INC: $3,396 · HealthFamily Health Services Corporation: $3,274 · HealthTWIN FALLS OPTIMIST FOUNDATION INC: $20,162 · Community ImprovementUnited Way of South Central Idaho Inc: $16,745 · PhilanthropyMOUNT HARRISON HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MAGIC VALLEY: $11,500 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on the Run of Southern Idaho Inc: $3,279 · Youth DevelopmentOakley Valley Arts Council: $7,500 · Arts & CultureBOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER INC: $3,500 · Arts & CultureRENAISSANCE ART CENTER INC: $3,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$476,608Human Services$72,376Health$22,445Community Improvement$20,162Philanthropy$18,745Youth Development$14,779Arts & Culture$14,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTWIN FALLS OPTIMIST FOUNDATION INC: $20,162 over 3y, 16% of budgetUnited Way of South Central Idaho Inc: $16,745 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MAGIC VALLEY: $11,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSTARD SEED MINISTRIES INC: $10,064 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFiler Senior Haven Inc: $9,150 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetBuhl Family Network Inc: $9,032 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetOakley Valley Arts Council: $7,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetWEST END SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER: $6,317 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLIVING INDEPENDENCE NETWORK COPORATION: $6,142 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBlanket Blessings Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetSAGE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $5,590 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSIMPLY HOPE FAMILY OUTREACH INC: $5,415 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetIDAHO REGIONAL ROBOTICS INC: $5,200 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetMAGIC VALLEY FELLOWSHIP HALL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetASTEGOS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF TWIN FALLS IDAHO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCASSIA COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRISING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWomen's and Children's Alliance: $4,861 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRISE Charter School Inc: $4,823 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTOUGH ENOUGH TO WEAR PINK INC: $4,770 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetAGELESS SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $4,404 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMAGIC VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $4,363 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY COUNCIL OF IDAHO INC: $4,255 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN FALLS OPTIMIST YOUTH HOUSE INC: $4,159 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMagic Valley Area Humanitarian Center: $4,121 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetMAGIC VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL: $3,959 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHELPING HEARTS AND HANDS INC: $3,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetJEROME LITTLE TIGERS PRESCHOOL & DAYCARE INC: $3,437 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WALKER CENTER FOR ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE INC: $3,396 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMagic Valley Youth Services INC: $3,352 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGirls on the Run of Southern Idaho Inc: $3,279 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetFamily Health Services Corporation: $3,274 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRENAISSANCE ART CENTER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTRINITY NEW HOPE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMINIDOKA COUNTY SENIOR CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMEN'S SECOND CHANCE LIVING: $2,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJubilee House Incorporated: $2,200 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMOUNT HARRISON HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBECAUSE KIDS GRIEVE INC: $1,775 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMERIDIAN LIBRARY DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC: $1,662 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $1,631 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPTIMIST CLUB OF TWIN FALLS: $1,354 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

  • 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 ASTEGOS INC ↗

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.

Idaho Community Found…Janice Seagraves Fami…St Luke's Health Syst…Twin Falls County Hea…St Luke's Magic Valle…Lamb Weston Charitabl…Laura Moore Cunningha…Racing for Charity IncMagic Valley Festival…Idaho Foodbank Wareho…Browning Charitable F…Idaho Power Foundatio…
Idaho Community Foundation IncID47.1× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%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
    12report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to First Federal Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to First Federal Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 148 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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