· Private foundation
Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $156k
- $10k–50k66 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+6 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TREASURE VALLEY YMCA INC - SEE ADDENDUM FOR ADD'L INFORMATION | $400,031 |
| IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - SEE ADDENDUM FOR ADD'L INFORMATION | $360,167 |
| BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - SEE ADDENDUM FOR ADD'L INFORMATION | $360,167 |
| COLLEGE OF WESTERN IDAHO FOUNDATION - SEE ADDENDUM FOR ADD'L INFORMATION | $360,093 |
| NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY FDTN - SEE ADDENDUM FOR ADD'L INFORMATION | $340,180 |
| IDAHO PUBLIC TELEVISION - SEE ADDENDUM FOR ADD'L INFORMATION | $250,009 |
| LEWIS & CLARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION - SEE ADDENDUM FOR ADD'L INFORMATION | $235,108 |
| COLLEGE OF IDAHO FOUNDATION - SEE ADDENDUM FOR ADD'L INFORMATION | $180,223 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO FOUNDATION - SEE ADDENDUM FOR ADD'L INFORMATION | $124,164 |
| COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN IDAHO FDTN - SEE ADDENDUM FOR ADD'L INFORMATION | $100,068 |
| TREASURE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDTN - SEE ADDENDUM FOR ADD'L INFORMATION | $100,068 |
| NORTH IDAHO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC - SEE ADDENDUM FOR ADD'L INFORMATION | $100,068 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MAGIC VALLEY | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO WWAMI'S PROJECT - SEE ADDENDUM FOR ADD'L INFORMATION | $85,027 |
| THE PEREGRINE FUND | $80,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
149 repeat relationships — 74 still active in FY2024, 75 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TCThe College of Idaho Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $960k · revenue +3%
- TPTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC4× · 2020–2024 · $880k · revenue +39%
- TYTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO2× · 2020–2022 · $600k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- SASAINT ALPHONSUS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +43%
- ISIdaho State University Foundation Incone grant, 2022 · $360k · revenue -38%
- NNNORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - SEE ADDENDUM FOR ADD'L INFORMATIone grant, 2023 · $340k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To help technology companies in Idaho start, grow, and thrive.
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.
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.
To promote, ensure & maintain excellent & comprehensive educational opportunities for the children and youth served by Idaho Educational Services for the Deaf and Blind from birth to 26 years of age across the state of Idaho.
Museum
Idaho legal aid services inc is a statewide nonprofit law firm dedicated to providing equal access for low-income people through quality advocacy and education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Idaho Humanities Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Valley County Economic Develop Dba West Central Mtn Eco Develo. 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.
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 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
182 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 182 of the 330 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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
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.
- Who funds The College of Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO ↗
- Who funds SAINT ALPHONSUS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TREASURE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DISCOVERY CENTER OF IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds Idaho State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TRICA INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAINBOW GOLD INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S MCCALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Luke's Health Foundation Ltd ↗
- Who funds IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS WOMENS TRANSITIONAL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LEWIS CLARK VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ADA CO ID ↗
- Who funds GENESIS COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · St Luke's Health System Ltd · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health Inc · The Julius C Jeker Foundation Inc · Idaho Womens Charitable Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · The Bews Foundation · United Way of Treasure Valley 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 Laura Moore Cunningham 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.
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.
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