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Frizzell Family Foundation at a glance

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Frizzell Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

53% of Frizzell Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Idaho Womens Charitable Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Frizzell Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $10k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’17
11
’18
9
’19
1
’20
9
’21
10
’22
7
’23
9
’24
7
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$145kHealth$51kRecreation & Sports$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kPhilanthropy$10kReligion$3kEnvironment$3kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUKE UNIVERSITY$5,000
IDAHO WOMEN'S CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$1,125
FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$1,000
ONE STONE$1,000
TREASURE VALLEY FAMILY YMCA$700
Individual grant recipient$500
WASMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS$250
WASMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS$250
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH$100
COLEL CHABAH$50
IDAHO HUMANE SOCIETY$50
BOISE RESCUE MISSION$50
NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND$50
IDAHO FOOD BANK$50
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 (FY18–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PERC INC: $10k → 9%WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $150 → 8%WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $50 → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
ID
NY
CA
VA
TN
NC
DC
AL
FL
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$150k · 21 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
18

Total granted

$150k
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+42%

Still filing today

67%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsAnimalsPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • RI
    RIVERSTONE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $90k · revenue +52%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +51%
  • IC
    IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $3k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • UD
    UAB DIVISION OF NEUROSURGERY
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • PE
    P E R C INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -28%
  • DD
    DURHAM DEVILS GIVING INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2023 · $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.

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
Independent Colleges of Washington

Independent colleges of washington is the leading advocate for not-for-profit, private campuses in washington state.

Education
2
International Life Sciences Institute

Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…

Science & Tech
3
International Federation of Accountants

Ifac acts in the public interest and has no profit-making purpose. ifac serves the public interest by: speaking out and engaging as the voice for the global profession; leading and developing a future-ready accountancy profession; and…

Education
4
Institute of International Bankers

The iib represents the interests of the international banking community before u.s. legislative/regulatory bodies liaises with international regulatory bodies serves as a source of information to the media and other interested parties…

—
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
6
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
7
Idaho Technology Council Inc

To help technology companies in Idaho start, grow, and thrive.

—
8
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
9
Institute for Conservation Leadership

To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.

Community Improvement
10
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

—
11
Idaho Law Foundation Inc

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…

—
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Idaho Womens Charitable Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Southern California Newfoundland Rescue Corporation. 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

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RIVERSTONE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL INC: $90,050 · EducationRIVERSTONE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL INCDUKE UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY+5 more: $6,150 · EducationUAB DIVISION OF NEUROSURGERY: $50,000 · OtherUAB DIVISION OF NEUROSURGERYDURHAM DEVILS GIVING INCORPORATED: $10,000 · OtherDURHAM DEVILS GIVING INCORPORATEDIDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC: $3,075 · Other+29 more: $10,504 · Other+29 moreP E R C INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $200 · Human ServicesIDAHO WOMENS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $9,825 · PhilanthropyCATO INSTITUTE: $1,050 · Public BenefitWASSMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS HOME OF THE ANNE FRANK MEMORIAL: $550 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $50 · Civil RightsIdaho Humane Society Inc: $225 · AnimalsSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEWFOUNDLAND RESCUE CORPORATION: $200 · Animals
Education$141,200Other$73,579Human Services$10,200Philanthropy$9,825Public Benefit$1,050Civil Rights$600Animals$425

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRIVERSTONE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL INC: $90,050 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetP E R C INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIDAHO WOMENS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $9,825 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetIDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC: $3,075 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $1,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONE STONE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S MCCALL FOUNDATION: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASSMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS HOME OF THE ANNE FRANK MEMORIAL: $550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR LEE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $228 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIdaho Humane Society Inc: $225 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's and Children's Alliance: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEWFOUNDLAND RESCUE CORPORATION: $200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSt Luke's Health Foundation Ltd: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEE COUNTY ALLIANCE FOR THE ARTS INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $10 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Laura Moore Cunningha…Idaho Power Foundatio…Idaho Community Found…Langan Barber Foundat…Harad Family Foundati…The Julius C Jeker Fo…Lamb Weston Charitabl…First Interstate Banc…Hansberger FoundationPercival Stern Founda…Jeker Family TrustClaude R & Ethel B Wh…
Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation IncID19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Langan Barber Foundation · Harad Family Foundation · The Julius C Jeker Foundation Inc · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Hansberger Foundation · Percival Stern Foundation · Jeker Family Trust · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Lee County Alliance for the Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Pine Crest Preparatory School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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 47 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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