Skip to content

Idaho · Public charity

Idaho Humanities Council Inc

The purpose of the council is to empower individuals and groups to improve their communities through active engagement in the humanities.

$148k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
67%
First-time grantees FY2024
Read the full brief
Itemized, FY2025
$35k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$7,500
Organizations funded a year
3 to 51
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Idaho Humanities Council Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 70% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$35k80%
FY20243$19k67%
FY20237$61k29%
FY20228$94k25%
FY202151$631k63%
FY202037$320kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$632kEducation$205kPublic Benefit$97kCivil Rights$90kEnvironment$29kCommunity Improvement$24kSocial Science$15kRecreation & Sports$12kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 79 grantees
All grantees of Idaho Humanities Council Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boise State University Foundation Inc$53,45010%
Museum of Idaho$50,00021%
Basque Museum & Cultural Center Inc$47,50034%
Regents of the University of Idaho$46,0004n/a
City Club of Boise Inc 03-07-95$41,774319%
The Alturas Institute Inc$40,860316%
Boise Art Museum Inc$35,72022%
Valley of the Tetons Library Foundation and Friends Incorporated$32,000246%
Friends of Idaho Public Television Inc$29,00010%
Friends of Minidoka Inc$28,58035%
Idaho County Historical Society Inc$28,0001n/a
The Community Library Association Inc$27,50020%
Wassmuth Center for Human Rights Home of the Anne Frank Memorial$27,50031%
Boise State University$25,8502n/a
Human Rights Education Institute Inc$25,000221%
Sun Valley Center for the Arts Inc$25,00021%
The Wallace Chamber of Commerce Inc$24,495134%
Idaho Mythweaver Inc$23,000268%
Idaho Public Television$22,5001n/a
Wis Teq Neemit$21,000221%
Meridian Library District Foundation Inc$20,52616%
Log Cabin Literary Center Inc$20,00013%
Art Museum of Eastern Idaho$17,40024%
Appaloosa Museum and Heritage Center Foundation$16,880228%
Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness Inc$15,97823%
Idaho City Historical Foundation$15,5001n/a
City of Rexburg$15,2502n/a
Idaho Shakespeare Festival Inc$15,00020%
City of Salmon$15,0002n/a
Community Library Network$15,0002n/a
Oregon Trail Center Inc$14,54625%
Idaho State University Foundation Inc$14,50010%
Coeur Dalene Public Library Foundation$10,00027%
Foundation for Idaho History$10,00014%
Northern Pacific Depot Foundation Inc$10,000210%
City of Pocatello$10,0001n/a
The Trailing of the Sheep Cultural Heritage Center Inc$10,00012%
Elk River Free Library District$10,0001n/a
Horizons Lifestyle and Education Team$10,00016%
Greater Wallace Community Development Corporation$9,0001n/a
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre Inc$7,5001n/a
Bear River Association of Govt$7,5001n/a
Idaho Historical Preservation Council Inc$7,500152%
Global Lounge Incorporated$7,50012%
Treefort Community Fund Inc$7,50013%
The Blaine County Historical Museum Inc$7,500118%
City of Cascade$7,5001n/a
Warhawk Air Museum Inc$7,50011%
Friends of the Hailey Public Library Inc$7,4461n/a
Friends of Idaho State Parks Inc$7,0001n/a
Jefferson County Historical Society$6,80015%
Dry Creek Historical Society Inc$6,500110%
The College of Idaho Inc$6,00010%
College of Southern Idaho Foundation$6,00010%
Wallace District Mining Museum Inc$6,000115%
Barnard Stockbridge Wallace Extension Inc$6,0001n/a
Ada Community Library$6,0001n/a
Terragraphics International Foundation Inc$6,00012%
College of Southern Idaho$5,4861n/a
Idaho Museum of Natural History$5,2471n/a
The Friends of the Middleton Public Library$5,000121%
Lemhi County Historical Society Inc$5,00014%
General Federation of Womens Clubs$5,0001n/a
McCall Arts and Humanities Council Inc$5,00016%
Boundary County Historical Society Inc$5,00016%
Rathdrum-Westwood Historical Society Inc$5,0001n/a
Post Falls Historical Society Inc$5,0001n/a
Indonesia Idaho Incorporated$5,0001n/a
City of Tetonia$5,0001n/a
Sawtooth Interpretive and Historical Association$5,00015%
Gem County Historical Society Incorporated$5,0001n/a
Bear Lake County Library$5,0001n/a
Hispanic Cultural Center of Idaho$5,0001n/a
Boise Contemporary Theater Inc$5,0001n/a
Museum of North Idaho Inc$5,00011%
Burley Public Library Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a
City of Emmett$5,0001n/a
Heart of the Arts Inc$5,00011%
City Club of Idaho Falls Inc$5,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Idaho Humanities Council Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoise State University Foundation Inc: $53,450 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMuseum of Idaho: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBasque Museum & Cultural Center Inc: $47,500 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCity Club of Boise Inc 03-07-95: $41,774 over 3y, 19% of budgetThe Alturas Institute Inc: $40,860 over 3y, 16% of budgetBoise Art Museum Inc: $35,720 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetValley of the Tetons Library Foundation and Friends Incorporated: $32,000 over 2y, 46% of budgetFriends of Idaho Public Television Inc: $29,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of Minidoka Inc: $28,580 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetThe Community Library Association Inc: $27,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWassmuth Center for Human Rights Home of the Anne Frank Memorial: $27,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHuman Rights Education Institute Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetSun Valley Center for the Arts Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Wallace Chamber of Commerce Inc: $24,495 over 1y, 34% of budgetIdaho Mythweaver Inc: $23,000 over 2y, 68% of budgetWis Teq Neemit: $21,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetMeridian Library District Foundation Inc: $20,526 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetLog Cabin Literary Center Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetArt Museum of Eastern Idaho: $17,400 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetAppaloosa Museum and Heritage Center Foundation: $16,880 over 2y, 28% of budgetFriends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness Inc: $15,978 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetIdaho Shakespeare Festival Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOregon Trail Center Inc: $14,546 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetIdaho State University Foundation Inc: $14,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCoeur Dalene Public Library Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetFoundation for Idaho History: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetNorthern Pacific Depot Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetThe Trailing of the Sheep Cultural Heritage Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHorizons Lifestyle and Education Team: $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetIdaho Historical Preservation Council Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 52% of budgetGlobal Lounge Incorporated: $7,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTreefort Community Fund Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetThe Blaine County Historical Museum Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetWarhawk Air Museum Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJefferson County Historical Society: $6,800 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetDry Creek Historical Society Inc: $6,500 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetThe College of Idaho Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege of Southern Idaho Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWallace District Mining Museum Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTerragraphics International Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThe Friends of the Middleton Public Library: $5,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetLemhi County Historical Society Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetMcCall Arts and Humanities Council Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetBoundary County Historical Society Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetSawtooth Interpretive and Historical Association: $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMuseum of North Idaho Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHeart of the Arts Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 47.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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 IncID54× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · St Luke's Health System Ltd · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Avista Foundation · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · Innovia Foundation · The Tfdixon Family Foundation Inc · Harad Family 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.

Compare Idaho Humanities Council Inc with peer funders

About Idaho Humanities Council Inc

How much does Idaho Humanities Council Inc give?
Idaho Humanities Council Inc reported 5 itemized grants totaling $35,486, out of $147,792 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 51 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Idaho Humanities Council Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (56%), Education (18%), Public Benefit (9%).
Who are Idaho Humanities Council Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Boise State University Foundation Inc ($53k), Museum of Idaho ($50k), Basque Museum & Cultural Center Inc ($48k).
Does Idaho Humanities Council Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Idaho Humanities Council Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Idaho Community Foundation Inc, Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc, Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation.
Where is Idaho Humanities Council Inc based?
Idaho Humanities Council Inc is based in ID.

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 79 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Idaho Humanities Council’s filings →

More from the funding graph