· Private foundation
Four J Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FACES OF HOPE | $20,000 |
| WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO COLLEGE OF EDUCATION HEALTH AND HUMAN SCIENCES | $20,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| INTERFAITH SANCTUARY HOUSING SERVICES | $10,000 |
| TERRY REILLY HEALTH SERVICES | $10,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BOISE | $10,000 |
| THE CHILDRENS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| JESSE TREE | $10,000 |
| ST ALPHONSUS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BOISE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES | $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 (FY17–25, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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 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
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 91 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Four J Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Four J Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bridges to Change Inc: 40% of income from government
How this is measured
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