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Ida Uta Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$421k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$445kRecreation & Sports$150kYouth Development$100kHuman Services$75kFood & Nutrition$61kCrime & Legal$45kAnimals$40kHealth$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $271k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLLEGE OF WESTERN IDAHO FOUNDATION$100,000
THE BOGUS BASIN RECREATIONAL ASSOC$50,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$40,000
EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF WEST ADA$35,000
IDAHO FOOD BANK$30,000
FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION$30,000
HOPE AND HOME$30,000
IDAHO REPTILE ZOO$20,000
UPWARD INERTIA INCORPORATED$20,000
WCA$15,000
IDAHO PARTNERS FOR GOOD$15,000
YMCA$15,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$11,000
BOISE RESCUE MISSION$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $11k → 14%HOPE AND HOME: $30k → 9%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$806k · 9 repeat orgs$156k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
1

Total granted

$806k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+16%

Still filing today

44%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionEducationAnimalsOther
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

  • CO
    College of Western Idaho Foundation Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $320k · revenue ×11
  • BB
    BOGUS BASIN RECREATIONAL ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +10%
  • IR
    IDAHO REPTILE ZOO INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • CS
    CHALLENGER SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +16%
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
Idaho Community Foundation Inc

The idaho community foundation strengthens communities through philanthropy, elevating nonprofit impact, and connecting idahoans to create a place where everyone can contribute to thriving communities.

Philanthropy
2
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…

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3
Idaho Humane Society Inc

The mission of the Idaho Humane Society (IHS) is to advocate for the welfare and responsible care of animals, protect them from neglect and cruelty, and promote humane education, awareness and compassion for all living creatures.

Animals
4
Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health Inc
Health
5
Idaho Ffa Foundation Inc

To Promote Premier Leadership, Personal Growth and Career Success of Idaho FFA Members and Agricultural Education Students by Providing Strategic Financial Resources for the Idaho FFA Association

Youth Development
6
Idaho Animal Rescue Network

Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…

Animals
7
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
8
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
9
Intermountain Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood of Montana empowers all people to make informed decisions and ensures the freedom to manage their own sexuality, and personal health by providing the highest quality confidential healthcare services, education, and…

Health
10
Idaho State University Foundation Inc

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.

Education
11
Idaho Technology Council Foundation

The corporation advances charitable and educational initiatives as an affiliate of the Idaho Technology Council. It promotes digiatl literacy technology education and workforce readiness across Idaho by funding and delivering…

Science & Tech
12
The Kissler Family Foundation

To provide funds for religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes, or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope and Home; the most unlike its peers is Family Justice Center Foundation of Idaho 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

8 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. 8 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

College of Western Idaho Foundation Inc: $320,169 · PhilanthropyCollege of Western Idaho Foundation I…EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF WEST ADA: $85,000 · OtherEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF WEST AD…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $60,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENTYMCA: $30,000 · OtherYMCAWCA: $30,000 · OtherWCABOISE RESCUE MISSION: $30,000 · OtherBOISE RESCUE MISSIONUPWARD INERTIA INCORPORATED: $20,000 · OtherUPWARD INERTIA INCORPORATEDIDAHO PARTNERS FOR GOOD: $15,000 · OtherIDAHO PARTNERS FOR GOODBOGUS BASIN RECREATIONAL ASSOCIATION INC: $150,000 · Recreation & SportsBOGUS BASIN RECRE…HOPE AND HOME: $30,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION OF IDAHO INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $11,000 · Human ServicesIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $61,000 · Food & NutritionCHALLENGER SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationIDAHO REPTILE ZOO INC: $40,000 · Animals
Philanthropy$320,169Other$270,000Recreation & Sports$150,000Human Services$71,000Food & Nutrition$61,000Education$50,000Animals$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCollege of Western Idaho Foundation Inc: $320,169 over 3y, 12% of budgetBOGUS BASIN RECREATIONAL ASSOCIATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $61,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHALLENGER SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO REPTILE ZOO INC: $40,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetHOPE AND HOME: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION OF IDAHO INC: $30,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $11,000 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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ida Uta Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ida Uta Foundation 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 15 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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