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Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundation

Protect And Sustain Idaho's Fishing, Hunting And Wildlife Heritage For Present And Future Generations.

$211k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$1.7MAnimals$1.3MPublic Benefit$201kEducation$132kRecreation & Sports$13kArts & Culture$10kYouth Development$8kFood & Nutrition$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$67M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Idaho Foundation$105,000
Idaho Department of Fish and Game$34,999
Sagebrush Steppe Land Trust$10,000
Wood River Land Trust$10,000
Friends of the Teton River$10,000
The Land Trust of the Treasure Valley$10,000
Bonner County$9,288
First Hunt Foundation$7,500
Regents of the University of Idaho$7,500
Signs2U$6,903
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 18% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN IDAHO: $10k → 7%Friends of the Teton River: $10k → 7%IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF LANDS: $10k → 8%SNAKE RIVER QUAIL FOREVER: $6k → 11%HENRY'S FORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%KANIKSU LAND TRUST INC: $10k → 12%First Hunt Foundation: $8k → 13%MACKAY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $7k → 13%Sagebrush Steppe Land Trust: $10k → 14%SALMON VALLEY STEWARDSHIP: $10k → 14%PALOUSE - CLEARWATER ENVIRONMENTAL: $10k → 16%PHEASANTS FOREVER: $65k → 14%YELLOWSTON TO YUKON CONSERVATION: $252k → 10%OWYHEE WATERSHED COUNCIL: $24k → 20%NATURE CONSERVANCY OF IDAHO: $10k → 7%FRIENDS OF THE TETON RIVER: $10k → 7%IDAHO WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $10k → 8%Bonner County: $9k → 12%FIRST HUNT FOUNDATION: $6k → 13%SAGEBRUSH STEPPE LAND TRUST: $10k → 14%SALMON-CHALLIS NATIONAL FOREST: $10k → 14%University of Idaho Foundation: $105k → 16%TROUT UNLIMITED - HAILEY: $9k → 7%FRIENDS OF THE TETON RIVER: $10k → 7%The Land Trust of the Treasure Valley: $10k → 8%SAGEBRUSH STEPPE LAND TRUST: $10k → 14%IDAHO CHAPTER AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 7%FRIENDS OF THE TETON RIVER: $10k → 7%Signs2U: $7k → 8%Wood River Land Trust: $10k → 7%FRIENDS OF THE TETON RIVER: $10k → 7%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%Regents of the University of Idaho: $8k → 7%FRIENDS OF THE TETON RIVER: $8k → 7%PERIGRINE FUND'S WORLD CENTER: $7k → 8%TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST: $7k → 7%STATE OF IDAHO-DEP FISH & GAME: $890k → 8%IDAHO DEPT OF FISH & GAME: $555k → 8%IDAHO DEPT OF FISH & GAME: $220k → 8%STATE OF IDAHO-DEP FISH & GAME: $217k → 8%IDAHO DEPT OF FISH & GAME: $173k → 8%IDAHO DEPT OF FISH & GAME: $172k → 8%IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME: $63k → 8%IDAHO DEPT OF FISH & GAME: $62k → 8%Idaho Department of Fish and Game: $35k → 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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 6 repeat orgs$912k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
23

Total granted

$2.5M
$868k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+2%

Still filing today

83%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsCommunity ImprovementEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • UO
    University of Idaho Foundation Inc
    2× · 2019–2025 · $115k · revenue +7%
  • PF
    PHEASANTS FOREVER INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $71k · revenue +47%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE TETON RIVER INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $58k · revenue +208%

Funded once

  • YT
    YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON
    one grant, 2023 · $252k · revenue -14%
  • SO
    STATE OF IDAHO-DEP FISH & GAME
    one grant, 2018 · $217k
  • CO
    CITY OF BOISE
    one grant, 2022 · $201k
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 Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
2
Wild Salmon Rivers

To conserve functioning salmon/steelhead eco-system at watershed levels, integrate angling activities with basic scientific research, collect raw data, monitor environmental functions, salmon/steelhead population dynamics, public…

Environment
3
Idaho Conservation League Inc

Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.

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4
Swan Valley Connections

Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.

Environment
5
Ecosystem Sciences Foundation Inc

River and watershed restoration

Environment
6
Palouse Land Trust Inc

Our mission is to work with landowners and communities to conserve the lands we love, now and forever, and to enrich connections to the natural world.

Environment
7
Project Big Wood a Nonprofit Corporation

Project big wood is organized to improve the environmental health and ecology of the big wood river basin in central idaho by protecting, enhancing, sustaining and reconnecting the big wood river, its tributaries and its watershed.

Environment
8
Grand Teton National Park Foundation

Grand Teton National Park Foundation (the Foundation) is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to partner with Grand Teton National Park to steward, protect, and enhance all that is special in the park. Budget limitations,…

Philanthropy
9
Washington Water Trust

Wwt's mission is to protect and restore water in rivers and streams across washington state. washington water trust restores and protects water in rivers and streams and promotes sustainable freshwater management in washington, and, more…

Environment
10
Intertribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council
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11
Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group

The mission of the Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group (LCFWG) is to facilitate collaboration among watershed stakeholders and to coordinate efforts to maintain, enhance, and restore the ecological integrity of tributaries to the lower Clark…

Environment
12
Wilderness River Foundation
Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teton Regional Land Trust Inc; the most unlike its peers is First Hunt Foundation 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

21 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. 21 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Idaho Public Television: $2,180,265 · OtherIdaho Public TelevisionSTATE OF IDAHO-DEP FISH & GAME: $216,734 · OtherSTATE OF IDAHO-DEP FISH & GAMECITY OF BOISE: $201,392 · OtherCITY OF BOISE+16 more: $207,754 · Other+16 moreYELLOWSTONE TO YUKON: $252,302 · EnvironmentYELLOWSTONE TO…FRIENDS OF THE TETON RIVER INC: $58,300 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE…Sagebrush Steppe Land Trust Inc: $30,000 · EnvironmentSagebrush Step…Friends of Morrison Knudsen Nature Center: $14,615 · Environment+7 more: $67,000 · Environment+7 moreUniversity of Idaho Foundation Inc: $115,000 · EducationOwyhee Watershed Council: $23,551 · Community ImprovementIdaho Wildlife Federation: $10,000 · AnimalsTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $9,298 · AnimalsFIRST HUNT FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,806,145Environment$422,217Education$115,000Community Improvement$23,551Animals$19,298Recreation & Sports$13,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYELLOWSTONE TO YUKON: $252,302 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetUniversity of Idaho Foundation Inc: $115,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPHEASANTS FOREVER INC: $70,825 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE TETON RIVER INC: $58,300 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSagebrush Steppe Land Trust Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetOwyhee Watershed Council: $23,551 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Morrison Knudsen Nature Center: $14,615 over 1y, 18% of budgetFIRST HUNT FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALOUSE-CLEARWATER ENVIRONMENTAL INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKaniksu Land Trust Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIdaho Wildlife Federation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSALMON VALLEY STEWARDSHIP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $9,298 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Idaho Community Found…National Fish and Wil…Cross Charitable Foun…National Forest Found…Marin Community Found…NRA Foundation IncEl& Bg Lightfoot Foun…Land Trust Alliance I…PatagoniaorgInnovia FoundationVanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…
Idaho Community Foundation IncID23.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Idaho Community Foundation Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark · National Forest Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · NRA Foundation Inc · El& Bg Lightfoot Foundation · Land Trust Alliance Inc · Patagoniaorg · Innovia Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment 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 Fish and Wildlife Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • Owyhee Watershed Council: 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 35 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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