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Four J Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $217k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEARNING LAB | $80,000 |
| IDAHO FOODBANK | $35,000 |
| ST LUKE'S HEALTH FOUNDATION | $21,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO COLLEGE OF EDUCATION HEALTH AND HUMAN SCIENCES | $20,000 |
| FACES OF HOPE | $20,000 |
| WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| INTERFAITH SANCTUARY HOUSING SERVICES | $10,000 |
| ST ALPHONSUS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JESSE TREE | $10,000 |
| BOISE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BOISE | $10,000 |
| THE CHILDRENS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| TERRY REILLY HEALTH SERVICES | $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 (FY17–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
72 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- LLLEARNING LAB INC9× · 2017–2025 · $580k · revenue +74%
- IFIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $176k · revenue +48%
- ISINTERFAITH SANCTUARY HOUSING SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +446%
Funded once
- RCROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF BOISEone grant, 2021 · $20k
- TSTHE SPEEDY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +39%
- SLST LUKES HEALTH FOUNDATION MSTI - ACSone grant, 2020 · $10k
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 Law Foundation maintains a continuing legal education program and administers grants to 1) educate the public, 2) provide legal services to the state's indigent, 3) develop programs to improve the administration of justice and…
The mission of the Foundation is to stimulate voluntary private support from alumni, parents, friends, corporations, foundations, and others for the benefit of the University and its students.
The Bonner General Health Foundation is committed to advancing the promise to change and save lives through philanthropy by developing resources and creating awareness that helps expand the trust the community has in Bonner General Health.
Our promise is to deliver an experience of financial success, with unique style, at every stage of your life.
The Boise Farmers Market supports a regenerative, healthy food and agricultural system by operating a vibrant marketplace featuring locally grown and crafted products.
To help technology companies in Idaho start, grow, and thrive.
Public Education.
IHDE exists to create and maintain a collaborative statewide effort to improve the coordination and quality of healthcare through the use of a health information exchange and health information technology.
Public Education.
To provide excellence in healthcare
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Idaho Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Speedy Foundation 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 33 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 91 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 LEARNING LAB INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH SANCTUARY HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ST ALPHONSUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Women's and Children's Alliance ↗
- Who funds University of Idaho Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BISHOP KELLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds St Luke's Health Foundation Ltd ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR IDAHO HISTORY ↗
- Who funds FEED THE GAP INC ↗
- Who funds BOISE PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFES KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds WASSMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS HOME OF THE ANNE FRANK MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities Of Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds BOISE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
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 · St Luke's Health System Ltd · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · The Julius C Jeker Foundation Inc · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Angels Among US Inc · Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health Inc · Harad Family Foundation · Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center 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 Four J Foundation 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.
- Bridges to Change Inc — 40% of income from government
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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