· Private foundation
Idaho Character 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAITH WALK FITNESS PARK | $8,801 |
| FAITH WALK FITNESS PARK | $660 |
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 (FY18–19, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 31% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- GSGood Samaritan Rehabilitation Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $31k · revenue +23%
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF NORTH IDAHO INC2× · 2019–2023 · $19k · revenue +134%
- FJFIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA PROGRAM INC2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- IYIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $57k · revenue +110%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KOOTENAI COUone grant, 2022 · $40k
- CVCANOPY VILLAGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $26k · revenue +109%
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.
Providing religious service for adults and youths
Provide traing that assists school psych
To help families with children in our community who are situationally homeless achieve sustainable independence through a community based response by providing temporary housing, usually 60-90 days, along with case management.
Provide services to people before, throughout, and after an unplanned pregnancy.
To promote, ensure & maintain excellent & comprehensive educational opportunities for the children and youth served by Idaho Educational Services for the Deaf and Blind from birth to 26 years of age across the state of Idaho.
To work towards the great commission both locally and globally by partnering with the church to mobilize, equip, send and care for short-term teams and long-term workers who will take the gospel to the unreached.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Idaho Youth Ranch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Good Samaritan Rehabilitation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 19 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 IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Good Samaritan Rehabilitation Inc ↗
- Who funds CANOPY VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF NORTH IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF COEUR D ALENE INC ↗
- Who funds GENESIS PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Innovia Foundation ↗
- Who funds IDAHO NONPROFIT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOMESCHOOL IDAHO 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: The Avista Foundation · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Innovia Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Idaho Character 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.
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.