· Private foundation
Morrison Center Endowment 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $659k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BALLET IDAHO | $175,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $115,000 |
| BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY - Morrison Center | $110,900 |
| BOISE MUSIC WEEK | $89,100 |
| OPERA IDAHO | $64,000 |
| THE LOG CABIN LITERARY CENTER INC | $54,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| WASSMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS | $10,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,330 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +153% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BIBALLET IDAHO INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +62%
- OIOPERA IDAHO INC7× · 2017–2024 · $557k · revenue +45%
- BMBOISE MUSIC WEEK ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2017–2024 · $466k · revenue +201% · 70% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $75k
- BJBOISE JAZZ SOCIETY CO BOISE STATE Uone grant, 2022 · $47k
- OAOPEN ARMS DANCE PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $29k
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.
Performing arts
Music & arts performances
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.
Oregon ballet theatre is committed to sharing our passion for the expressive power of ballet, inspiring an enduring appreciation of dance, and connecting in meaningful ways to our community through excellence in performance, training, and…
Alaska Dance Theatre is a Not-For-Profit school of dance, and performing company, committed to promoting dance through professional education, performance and advocacy in Alaska.
Provide affordable dance to public
Okc ballet promotes the art of dance by supporting a professional company and its productions, operating a school of ballet for dance artists, children, and novice adults, and providing community engagement activities.
The mission of the Washington Center is to inspire audiences and artists of all ages through live performances, enriching the vibrancy of our community. The Washington center for the performing arts was created from a belief that a…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boise Contemporary Theater Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wassmuth Center for Human Rights Home of the Anne Frank Memorial. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 18 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
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 BALLET IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds BOISE MUSIC WEEK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOG CABIN LITERARY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAUREN EDSON DANCE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WASSMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS HOME OF THE ANNE FRANK MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds BOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS DANCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SUREL'S PLACE INC ↗
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 Power Foundation Inc · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · Jr Simplot Foundation Inc · Harad Family Foundation · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Morrison Center Endowment 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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