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Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children

The organization's mission is to improve early care and education for young children.

$3.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$3.9MHuman Services$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.4MCrime & Legal$500kCommunity Improvement$259kYouth Development$190kArts & Culture$187kRecreation & Sports$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 29 grants below total $2,335,406, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,534,189 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,198,783 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $191k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$70,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TREASURE VALLEY YMCA$400,000
NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION$200,000
Individual grant recipient$182,600
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO - BANNOCK COUNTY EARLY LEARNING COLLABORAT$95,000
CALDWELL SCHOOL DISTRICT$85,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO$85,000
COLLEGE OF EASTERN IDAHO$84,870
MARSING SCHOOL DISTRICT$81,850
UNITED WAY OF TREASURE VALLEY$80,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO - AMERICAN FALLS EARLY LEARNING COLLABORAT$80,000
MURTAUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT #418$77,500
UNITED WAY OF NORTH IDAHO NORTH IDAHO ELC$75,000
WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAIN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL$75,000
KUNA SCHOOL DISTRICT$70,000
SCHOOL DISTRICT #370 HOMEDALE ELC$70,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $653k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GIRAFEE LAUGH INC: $90k → 8%NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION: $300k → 8%GIRAFFE LAUGH INC: $12k → 8%NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION: $200k → 8%JANNUS INC: $38k → 8%CARE HOUSE LEARNING CENTER: $5k → 11%SUPER-KIDS DAY CARE CENTER INC: $9k → 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.
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 24 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
78

Total granted

$5.3M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

29%
12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO
    4× · 2020–2024 · $452k · revenue +25%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF TREASURE VALLEY INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $333k · revenue +34%
  • GL
    GIRAFFE LAUGH INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $102k · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • RO
    REGENTS OF U OF I BURSAR
    one grant, 2024 · $170k
  • AA
    ABC-ABOVE AND BEYOND THE CLASS
    one grant, 2024 · $90k
  • BS
    BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $84k
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
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
2
Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children

The organization's mission is to improve early care and education for young children.

Education
3
Morningstar Learning Center Inc

Morningstar Learning Center's mission is to develop and connect Big Sky's young children and families by providing reliable childcare, quality early education, and supportive resources from planning through parenthood.

Education
4
Nek Community Growth Center

Education of childcare workers

Education
5
Teton Valley Collaborative for Early Learning

The collaborative for early learning supports the development and expansion of early care and learning opportunities for families and children of teton valley that prepares children for a successful start in school and life.

Education
6
Sweetwater County Child Development Center Inc

Education of children ages birth through five.

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7
Timberline Learning Center

Childcare facility Timberline Learning Center supports our mountain community by providing families with quality early childhood education in a safe environment. Our mission is to educate by cultivating the wonder of learning through…

Human Services
8
United Way of the Yampa Valley

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community and uniting our partners to succeed in four key impact areas of early childhood education, youth success, financial stability and health and crisis services.

—
9
Joyful Learning Edc

In 2001, Joyful Learning Educational Development Center (Joyful Learning EDC) was founded with a clear vision to provide accessible, high-quality childcare that meets the diverse needs of every child.

Education
10
Wyoming Early Childhood Partnership

The mission and purpose of the wyoming early childhood partnership is to lead a public-private partnership in the development of an accessible and sustainable, high quality, early childhood system that supports communities and families.

—
11
United Way of Central and Southern Utah

We improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our local community to provide resources and programs that focus on health, education, and income.

—
12
The Village Charter School

Public Education.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Treasure Valley Inc; the most unlike its peers is Valley County Economic Develop Dba West Central Mtn Eco Develo. 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

16 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. 16 of the 119 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
6/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO: $1,000,000 · OtherTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHOUNITED WAY OF NORTH IDAHO INC: $380,270 · OtherUNITED WAY OF NORTH IDAHO INCKUNA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $324,461 · OtherEMMETT INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $256,000 · OtherMARSING SCHOOL DISTRICT: $228,040 · OtherCOLLEGE OF EASTERN IDAHO: $209,770 · Other+101 more: $3,890,445 · Other+101 moreUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO: $451,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF …UNITED WAY OF TREASURE VALLEY INC: $332,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF …United Way of South Central Idaho Inc: $215,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of …National Law Enforcement Foundation: $500,000 · Human ServicesNational …GIRAFFE LAUGH INC: $101,500 · Human ServicesGIRAFFE L…JANNUS INC: $37,500 · Human ServicesJANNUS IN…+2 more: $13,666 · Human ServicesVALLEY COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOP DBA WEST CENTRAL MTN ECO DEVELO: $70,000 · Community ImprovementSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $33,250 · EnvironmentEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY INC: $25,000 · EducationPOCATELLO VALLEY EDUCATORS INC: $6,647 · Education
Other$6,288,986Philanthropy$999,000Human Services$652,666Community Improvement$70,000Environment$33,250Education$31,647

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO: $1,000,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNational Law Enforcement Foundation: $500,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO: $451,500 over 4y, 16% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTH IDAHO INC: $380,270 over 4y, 35% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TREASURE VALLEY INC: $332,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetUnited Way of South Central Idaho Inc: $215,000 over 3y, 63% of budgetGIRAFFE LAUGH INC: $101,500 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetVALLEY COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOP DBA WEST CENTRAL MTN ECO DEVELO: $70,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetRURAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES INC: $61,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetJANNUS INC: $37,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $33,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSUPER-KIDS DAY CARE CENTER INC: $8,546 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPOCATELLO VALLEY EDUCATORS INC: $6,647 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCARE HOUSE LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED: $5,120 over 1y, 14% 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 THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO ↗
  • Who funds National Law Enforcement Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTH IDAHO INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF TREASURE VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds United Way of South Central Idaho Inc ↗
  • Who funds GIRAFFE LAUGH INC ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOP DBA WEST CENTRAL MTN ECO DEVELO ↗
  • Who funds RURAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES 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 Foundation IncID37× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Idaho Community Foundation Inc · St Luke's Health System Ltd · United Way of Treasure Valley Inc · Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health Inc · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Idaho Foodbank Warehouse · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · Innovia Foundation · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust

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 Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Rural Development Initiatives Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children 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 119 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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