· Community foundation
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.
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.
The 348 grants below total $12,792,399 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,300,826 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,508,427 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k112 grants · $781k
- $10k–50k192 grants · $3.9M
- $50k–250k39 grants · $3.8M
- $250k+5 grants · $4.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TREASURE VALLEY FAMILY YMCA | $1,624,630 |
| ADVOCATES FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INCORPORATED | $1,036,100 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO FOUNDATION INC | $764,505 |
| FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION OF IDAHO | $570,332 |
| ESTHER SIMPLOT PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY INC | $339,670 |
| LEAP CHARITIES | $235,000 |
| MUSEUM OF NORTH IDAHO INC | $210,496 |
| THE COLLEGE OF IDAHO INC | $188,980 |
| BOISE PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC | $179,855 |
| BONNER COUNTY | $165,283 |
| PANHANDLE ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC | $164,628 |
| NORTH FREMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $158,297 |
| BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $121,953 |
| IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE | $120,896 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF IDAHO | $113,178 |
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 (FY17–23, $6.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +47% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
381 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 380 since wound down; 347 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13M 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
- TYTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO7× · 2017–2023 · $2.2M · revenue +71%
- IFIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE7× · 2017–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +48%
- BPBOISE PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +27%
Funded once
- NBNEIGHBORWORKS BOISEone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +18%
- IIIMAGINE IDAHO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +12%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -24%
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.
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Treasure Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Onerefugee. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
465 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. 465 of the 1,059 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO ↗
- Who funds ESTHER SIMPLOT PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds BOISE PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Idaho Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH FREMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOISE PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Panhandle Alliance for Education ↗
- Who funds The College of Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds LEAP CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds West Side School District 202 Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE ↗
- Who funds Boise State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds IDAHO STEM ACTION CENTER FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children ↗
- Who funds THE JESSE TREE OF IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds ARCH COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GIRAFFE LAUGH INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds Boise Philharmonic Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds IDAHO HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Idaho State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds St Luke's Health Foundation Ltd ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAINBOW GOLD INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT INC ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 61 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JANNUS 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: Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · St Luke's Health System Ltd · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health Inc · Idaho Foodbank Warehouse · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · Idaho Housing Foundation · Spur Community Foundation Inc · The Julius C Jeker Foundation Inc · Idaho Womens Charitable Foundation · El& Bg Lightfoot 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 Community Foundation Inc 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.
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
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.