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Idaho Character Foundation at a glance

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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.

$9k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Recreation & Sports$683kYouth Development$112kHuman Services$43kHealth$39kCrime & Legal$33kArts & Culture$26kHousing & Shelter$19kEducation$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$8,801
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAITH WALK FITNESS PARK$8,801
FAITH WALK FITNESS PARK$660
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $57k → 8%CHILDREN'S VILLIAGE INC: $26k → 10%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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$744k · 4 repeat orgs$226k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
14

Total granted

$744k
$226k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+17%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterReligionHealthCivil RightsOther
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

  • GS
    Good Samaritan Rehabilitation Inc
    5× · 2017–2021 · $31k · revenue +23%
  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE OF NORTH IDAHO INC
    2× · 2019–2023 · $19k · revenue +134%
  • FJ
    FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA PROGRAM INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • IY
    IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $57k · revenue +110%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KOOTENAI COU
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
  • CV
    CANOPY VILLAGE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $26k · revenue +109%
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
Indigenous Idaho Alliance Inc
Civil Rights
2
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
3
Building Hope Idaho Inc
Philanthropy
4
Harvest Church Idaho Inc

Providing religious service for adults and youths

Religion
5
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
6
Idaho Operation Lifesaver
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7
Idaho School Psychologist Assoc

Provide traing that assists school psych

Philanthropy
8
Family Promise of Cowlitz County

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.

Human Services
9
Brave Hearts Idaho
Arts & Culture
10
Open Arms Pcc and Real Choices

Provide services to people before, throughout, and after an unplanned pregnancy.

Health
11
Idaho Educational Services for the Deaf and the Blind Foundation Inc

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.

Unclassified
12
Youth With a Mission Boise Cascade Inc

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.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Idaho Youth Ranch Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 19 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAITH WALK FITNESS PARK: $683,384 · OtherFAITH WALK FITNESS PARKBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KOOTENAI COU: $39,941 · Other+9 more: $87,996 · Other+9 moreIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $56,990 · Human ServicesIDAHO YOU…CANOPY VILLAGE INC: $25,567 · Human ServicesCANOPY VI…Good Samaritan Rehabilitation Inc: $30,954 · HealthFAMILY PROMISE OF NORTH IDAHO INC: $19,154 · Housing & ShelterMUSIC CONSERVATORY OF COEUR D ALENE INC: $13,998 · Arts & CultureGENESIS PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $11,364 · EducationHOMESCHOOL IDAHO INC: $500 · EducationFIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA PROGRAM INC: $10,050 · Civil Rights
Other$811,321Human Services$82,557Health$30,954Housing & Shelter$19,154Arts & Culture$13,998Education$11,864Civil Rights$10,050

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 budgetIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $56,990 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGood Samaritan Rehabilitation Inc: $30,954 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCANOPY VILLAGE INC: $25,567 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF NORTH IDAHO INC: $19,154 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetMUSIC CONSERVATORY OF COEUR D ALENE INC: $13,998 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetGENESIS PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $11,364 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA PROGRAM INC: $10,050 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetInnovia Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO NONPROFIT CENTER INC: $1,177 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMESCHOOL IDAHO INC: $500 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

The Avista FoundationIdaho Community Found…Innovia FoundationFirst Interstate Banc…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Avista FoundationWA17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–5%
    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 19 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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