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Idaho Power Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$679k
Granted FY2025still arriving
110
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Education$435kHuman Services$373kArts & Culture$203kHealth$112kHousing & Shelter$111kYouth Development$108kRecreation & Sports$100kEnvironment$79kOther$0
02FY2025 · 110 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k92 grants · $277k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $303k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SALVATION ARMY BOISE CORPS$100,000
WASHINGTON COUNTY FAIR EDUCATIONAL FUND$40,000
CALDWELL WESTERN HERITAGE FOUNDATION$25,000
TREASURE VALLEY FAMILY YMCA$20,000
COLLEGE OF WESTERN IDAHO FOUNDATION INC$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO FOUNDATION INC$20,000
BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$20,000
IDAHO GOVERNORS CUP SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO FOUNDATION INC$20,000
BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$20,000
FRIENDS OF IDAHO PUBLIC TELEVISION INC$20,000
BALLET IDAHO INC$15,000
LOG CABIN FOR LITERACY CENTER INC$12,500
IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN INC$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
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 (FY21–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INLAND NW HEROES INC: $5k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - EASTERN IDAHO: $3k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF IDAHO INC: $2k → 11%LEMHI COUNTY CRISIS INTERVENTION INC: $2k → 14%ADVOCATES AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE: $850 → 11%FOUR RIVERS HEALTHY COMMUNITY: $3k → 20%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $3k → 8%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $3k → 8%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $3k → 8%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $3k → 8%JANNUS INC: $3k → 8%BIRDS OF PREY NCA PARTNERSHIP: $500 → 8%GIRAFFE LAUGH: $10k → 8%WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $10k → 8%WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC: $5k → 8%JANNUS INC: $3k → 8%THE JESSE TREE OF IDAHO: $3k → 8%CATCH INC: $3k → 8%WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC: $2k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
ID
NY
OR
OH
VA
DC
GA
TX

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 58 repeat orgs$749k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

58 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 59 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
113

Total granted

$1.1M
$346k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
0%

Still filing today

72%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $403k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • BS
    Boise State University Foundation Inc
    4× · 2021–2025 · $84k · revenue +182%
  • IG
    IDAHO GOVERNORS CUP SCHOLARSHIP FUND IN
    4× · 2022–2025 · $77k · revenue +100%
  • UO
    University of Idaho Foundation Inc
    2× · 2021–2025 · $57k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF EASTERN IDAHO FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -21%
  • IS
    IDAHO STEM ACTION CENTER FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -89%

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
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
2
Indigenous Idaho Alliance Inc
Civil Rights
3
Idaho Technology Council Inc

To help technology companies in Idaho start, grow, and thrive.

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4
Idaho Wildlife Federation

The Idaho Wildlife Federation (IWF) promotes the conservation of Idaho's wildlife heritage and legacy of sporting opportunities for the current and future generations.

Animals
5
Brave Hearts Idaho
Arts & Culture
6
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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7
Idaho Foundation for Parks and Lands

To preserve and protect, for public benefit, open space lands and unique natural, scenic settings throughout the state of idaho utilizing various flexible conservation methods.

Environment
8
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
9
Idaho Medical Association Foundation Inc
Health
10
Idaho Operation Lifesaver
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11
Idaho Health Data Exchange Inc

IHDE exists to create and maintain a collaborative statewide effort to improve the coordination and quality of healthcare through the use of a health information exchange and health information technology.

Health
12
Underdogs Boise
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Idaho Nonprofit Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Fair Baker City. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%10%<5yr16%8%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr14%26%20–35yr10%22%35–55yr16%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%4%<5yr16%5%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr14%22%20–35yr10%20%35–55yr16%26%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/148
the rest of the field
16%
824/5,078

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

128 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. 128 of the 232 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
125/128
Grantees still filing
60/128
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY — $127,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYTHE SALVATION ARMY BOISE CORPS — $100,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY BOISE CORPSTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO — $45,000 · OtherWASHINGTON COUNTY FAIR EDUCATIONAL FUND — $40,000 · OtherIDAHO PUBLIC TELEVISION — $40,000 · OtherIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE — $41,500 · Other+133 more — $686,000 · Other+133 moreBoise State University Foundation Inc — $84,000 · EducationBoise State Univer…IDAHO GOVERNORS CUP SCHOLARSHIP FUND IN — $76,500 · EducationIDAHO GOVERNORS CU…University of Idaho Foundation Inc — $56,750 · EducationUniversity of Idah…CALDWELL WESTERN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $27,500 · EducationCALDWELL WESTERN H…The College of Idaho Inc — $10,000 · Education+8 more — $36,000 · Education+8 moreFriends of Idaho Public Television Inc — $20,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET IDAHO INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureChildren's Museum of Idaho Inc — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DISCOVERY CENTER OF IDAHO INC — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePONDEROSA CENTER — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBOISE ART MUSEUM INC — $6,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA IDAHO INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureOWYHEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureLAUREN EDSON DANCE INCORPORATED — $5,000 · Arts & CultureIDAHO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC — $4,500 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $19,000 · Arts & CultureRonald McDonald House Charities Of Idaho Inc — $35,500 · HealthSt Luke's Health Foundation Ltd — $25,000 · HealthSAINT ALPHONSUS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INC — $7,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF IDAHO INC — $6,250 · HealthBMH INC — $5,000 · HealthFlock Cancer Idaho Incorporated — $5,000 · HealthSt Luke's Health System Ltd — $5,000 · Health+1 more — $2,500 · HealthIdaho Housing Foundation — $60,000 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORWORKS BOISE — $24,000 · Housing & ShelterBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ADA CO ID — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF SILVER SAGE COUNCIL INC — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEAST IDAHO INC — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentWild Hearts Idaho Inc — $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN IDAHO INC DBA Girls on the Run Treasure Valley — $2,500 · Youth Development+1 more — $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentWomen's and Children's Alliance — $17,000 · Human ServicesGIRAFFE LAUGH INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesINLAND NW HEROES INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesJANNUS INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER & EDUCATION SERVI DBA FACES OF HOPE — $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE JESSE TREE OF IDAHO INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesCATCH INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - EASTERN IDAHO — $2,500 · Human ServicesFOUR RIVERS HEALTHY COMMUNITY INC — $2,500 · Human Services+3 more — $6,000 · Human Services
Other$1,080,000Education$290,750Arts & Culture$114,500Health$91,750Housing & Shelter$84,000Youth Development$70,500Human Services$68,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBoise State University Foundation Inc — $84,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIDAHO GOVERNORS CUP SCHOLARSHIP FUND IN — $76,500 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetIdaho Housing Foundation — $60,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of Idaho Foundation Inc — $56,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ADA CO ID — $50,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE — $41,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities Of Idaho Inc — $35,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetIDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $33,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSt Luke's Health Foundation Ltd — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORWORKS BOISE — $24,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCollege of Western Idaho Foundation Inc — $22,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE OF EASTERN IDAHO FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetIDAHO STEM ACTION CENTER FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Idaho Public Television Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWomen's and Children's Alliance — $17,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBALLET IDAHO INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChildren's Museum of Idaho Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWASSMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS HOME OF THE ANNE FRANK MEMORIAL — $13,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCANYON COUNTY FESTIVAL OF TREES INC — $12,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetIDAHO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $11,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGIRAFFE LAUGH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY CENTER OF IDAHO INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMAGIC VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL — $10,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetIDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe College of Idaho Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIdaho Veterans Network Corporation — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPONDEROSA CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetIdaho State University Foundation Inc — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIdaho Humane Society Inc — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SILVER SAGE COUNCIL INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIDAHO NONPROFIT CENTER INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSAINT ALPHONSUS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREASURE VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLIFES KITCHEN INC — $6,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SW ID INC — $6,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF IDAHO INC — $6,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLEARNING LAB INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOISE ART MUSEUM INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetREUSEUM EDUCATIONAL INC — $5,700 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetIdaho Trails Association — $5,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetIDAHO COALITION OF LAND TRUSTS — $5,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetBOISE PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTREASURE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERA IDAHO INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJANNUS INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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…Simplot Company Found…St Luke's Health Syst…Claude R & Ethel B Wh…Lamb Weston Charitabl…Blue Cross of Idaho F…The Julius C Jeker Fo…Harad Family Foundati…Langan Barber Foundat…M J Murdock Charitabl…First Interstate Banc…
Idaho Community Foundation IncID108× affinity63 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 · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · St Luke's Health System Ltd · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health Inc · The Julius C Jeker Foundation Inc · Harad Family Foundation · Langan Barber Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc

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 Power 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • Four Rivers Community School Inc — 20% of income from government
  • The Freshwater Trust — 17% of income from government
  • Nixyawii Community School — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
31report 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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Idaho Power Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Idaho Power Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 232 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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