· Private foundation
Jr Simplot Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
- $250k+2 grants · $4.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,300,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO | $1,900,000 |
| OPERA IDAHO | $100,000 |
| BOISE PHILHARMONIC ASSOC | $100,000 |
| BALLET IDAHO | $100,000 |
| JOHN WILLIAM JACKSON FUND | $25,000 |
| ESTHER SIMPLOT PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY | $19,500 |
| BOISE SADDLE & JUMP CLUB | $15,000 |
| IDAHO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| ZOO BOISE | $5,000 |
| WOMENS & CHILDRENS ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN | $5,000 |
| BOISE ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| IDAHO STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +85% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BIBALLET IDAHO INC6× · 2020–2025 · $610k · revenue +46%
- OIOPERA IDAHO INC6× · 2020–2025 · $610k · revenue +7%
- BPBOISE PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $610k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ADA CO IDone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- BCBOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -16%
- OVOther Variousone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
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.
Performing arts
The Boise Baroque Orchestra's mission is to bring the best of the Baroque and classical repertoire to the Treasure Valley, developing new audiences and providing musicians with the opportunity to significantly extend their repertoire.
To provide cultural opportunities to under represented audiences in SW Idaho
The boise bard players is a mobile theatre company making shakespeare and other classics economically and emotionally accessible to residends of the treasure valley and beyond.
To provide quality life orchestral experiences of the world's greatest music for the enjoyment, enrichment and education of our audiences and musicians.
Public Education.
To provide high quality musical productions which provide cultural experiences for southeast idaho
Music & arts performances
The boise metro chamber of commerce is the principal advocate for the business community dedicated to building prosperity in the region.
Inspire and nurture future explorers, innovators, and critical thinkers through interactive play in a safe, engaging environment with hands-on exhibits and programs designed specifically for children ages two to eight years old.
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BALLET IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds BOISE PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ESTHER SIMPLOT PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds IDAHO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BOISE SADDLE AND JUMP CLUB ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ADA CO ID ↗
- Who funds IDAHO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Women's and Children's Alliance ↗
- Who funds BOISE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds BOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds BOISE MUSIC WEEK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · The Julius C Jeker Foundation Inc · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · Harad Family Foundation · Allen-Heath Memorial Foundation · Percival Stern Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Morrison Center Endowment Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jr Simplot Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jr Simplot Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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