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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.

$218k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$632kEducation$205kPublic Benefit$97kCivil Rights$90kEnvironment$29kCommunity Improvement$24kSocial Science$15kRecreation & Sports$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $18,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $218,152 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $199,652 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.

$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF IDAHO STATE PARKS$7,000
TERRAGRAPHICS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$6,000
CITY CLUB OF BOISE$5,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HORIZONS LIFESTYLE AND EDUCATION TEAM: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$635k · 25 repeat orgs$488k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
48

Total granted

$635k
$475k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+28%

Still filing today

76%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther

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

  • BM
    BASQUE MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $48k · revenue +32%
  • CC
    CITY CLUB OF BOISE INC 03-07-95
    3× · 2020–2024 · $42k · revenue +35%
  • BA
    BOISE ART MUSEUM INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $36k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • BS
    Boise State University Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $53k · revenue +182%
  • FO
    Friends of Idaho Public Television Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $29k · revenue +10%
  • IC
    IDAHO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $28k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Melaleuca Museum Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Idaho Museum of Mining and Geology

The Idaho Museum of Mining & Geology exists to educate children and adults on Idaho's geologic and mining history.

Community Improvement
3
Rainier Oregon Historical Museum

Preserving the past via a local museum.

Arts & Culture
4
East Idaho Aquarium Corporation
Animals
5
Bonner County Historical Society Inc

Historic Preservation & Education

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6
Cascadia Art Museum

Cascadia Art Museum is an educational nonprofit 501(c)3 organization celebrating the rich tradition of the visual arts in the Northwest region, as shaped by the Cascade Mountains. The museum provides enriching experiences for community and…

Human Services
7
Chelan County Historical Society

Developed by, for, and in conjunction with the community, the cashmere museum and pioneer village seeks to engage, educate, and entertain visitors both local and international. hundreds of volunteers have worked thousands of hours to make…

Arts & Culture
8
Idaho Military Historical Society Inc

Preservation, display, and restoration of Idaho military artifacts, photos, and publications.

Arts & Culture
9
Historical Society of Idaho Springs

Historical education, museum tours, acquisition and maintenance of museum articles

Arts & Culture
10
Ilwaco Heritage Foundation Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum

The collection, preservation, interpretation and display of artifacts native to the area for the benefit and enrichment of the local residents and visitors to the area. Yearly visitation is approximately ten thousand.

Arts & Culture
11
Issaquah History Museums

To discover, preserve, and share history and heritiage of Issaquah and the surrounding area.

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12
The Shoshone Museum Association

To preserve, interpret, and display local and natural history for education purposes.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Idaho History and the most unlike its peers is Horizons Lifestyle and Education Team. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySenior Nutrition & Wellness…Community Service ClubsProfessional Trade Associat…Regional Conservation Organ…Fraternal Service Organizat…Regional Business ChambersYouth Development & LearningEquestrian Sports & Rodeo C…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr16%4%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr14%34%20–35yr10%30%35–55yr15%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%1%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr14%29%20–35yr10%30%35–55yr15%21%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/75
the rest of the field
16%
1,005/6,331

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.

04the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 75 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/48
Grantees still filing
32/48
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUSEUM OF IDAHO — $50,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF IDAHOREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO — $46,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IDAHOIDAHO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $28,000 · OtherIDAHO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCBoise State University — $25,850 · OtherBoise State UniversitySUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $25,000 · OtherSUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCIdaho Public Television — $22,500 · OtherIdaho City Historical Foundation — $15,500 · OtherCITY OF REXBURG — $15,250 · OtherCity of Salmon — $15,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY LIBRARY NETWORK — $15,000 · Other+28 more — $172,693 · Other+28 moreBASQUE MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC — $47,500 · Arts & CultureBASQUE MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER I…CITY CLUB OF BOISE INC 03-07-95 — $41,774 · Arts & CultureCITY CLUB OF BOISE INC 03-07-95BOISE ART MUSEUM INC — $35,720 · Arts & CultureBOISE ART MUSEUM INCFriends of Idaho Public Television Inc — $29,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of Idaho Public Televisio…FRIENDS OF MINIDOKA INC — $28,580 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF MINIDOKA INCLOG CABIN LITERARY CENTER INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureLOG CABIN LITERARY CENTER INCART MUSEUM OF EASTERN IDAHO — $17,400 · Arts & CultureAPPALOOSA MUSEUM AND HERITAGE CENTER FOUNDATION — $16,880 · Arts & CultureIDAHO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON TRAIL CENTER INC — $14,546 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $69,300 · Arts & Culture+10 moreBoise State University Foundation Inc — $53,450 · EducationBoise State University…The Alturas Institute Inc — $33,360 · EducationThe Alturas Institute …VALLEY OF THE TETONS LIBRARY FOUNDATION AND FRIENDS INCORPORATED — $32,000 · EducationVALLEY OF THE TETONS L…The Community Library Association Inc — $27,500 · EducationThe Community Library …Idaho Mythweaver Inc — $23,000 · EducationIdaho Mythweaver IncMERIDIAN LIBRARY DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC — $20,526 · EducationMERIDIAN LIBRARY DISTR…Idaho State University Foundation Inc — $14,500 · EducationIdaho State University…COEUR DALENE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $6,000 · EducationWASSMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS HOME OF THE ANNE FRANK MEMORIAL — $27,500 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 · Civil RightsTHE WALLACE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $24,495 · Community ImprovementWIS TEQ NEEMIT — $21,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF SCOTCHMAN PEAKS WILDERNESS INC — $15,978 · EnvironmentDry Creek Historical Society Inc — $6,500 · EnvironmentTerragraphics International Foundation Inc — $6,000 · EnvironmentHORIZONS LIFESTYLE AND EDUCATION TEAM — $10,000 · Human Services
Other$430,793Arts & Culture$335,700Education$220,336Civil Rights$52,500Community Improvement$45,495Environment$28,478Human Services$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetBOISE ART MUSEUM INC — $35,720 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetThe Alturas Institute Inc — $33,360 over 2y, 16% 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 budgetWASSMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS HOME OF THE ANNE FRANK MEMORIAL — $27,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Community Library Association Inc — $27,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 21% 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 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 budgetFOUNDATION FOR IDAHO HISTORY — $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetWARHAWK AIR MUSEUM INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetIDAHO HISTORICAL PRESERVATION COUNCIL INC — $7,500 over 1y, 52% of budgetThe Blaine County Historical Museum Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $6,800 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetDry Creek Historical Society Inc — $6,500 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetWALLACE DISTRICT MINING MUSEUM INC — $6,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SOUTHERN IDAHO FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTerragraphics International Foundation Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThe College of Idaho Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF NORTH IDAHO INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE MIDDLETON PUBLIC LIBRARY — $5,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetMCCALL ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSawtooth Interpretive and Historical Association — $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetLEMHI COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHEART OF THE ARTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOUNDARY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budget
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.

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.

Idaho Community Found…Laura Moore Cunningha…Claude R & Ethel B Wh…St Luke's Health Syst…Idaho Power Foundatio…Blue Cross of Idaho F…M J Murdock Charitabl…The Avista FoundationSimplot Company Found…Innovia FoundationThe Tfdixon Family Fo…Harad Family Foundati…
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

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 Humanities Council 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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