· Private foundation
Obsidian Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $109k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUN VALLEY POLICY FORUM | $25,000 |
| AHA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CALVIN COOLIDGE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| STANLEY SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION | $14,000 |
| HOOVER INSTITUTION | $10,000 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| MENS 2ND CHANCE SOBER LIVING | $5,000 |
| WARHAWK AIR MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| GHANA MAKE A DIFFERENCE | $5,000 |
| STELLA OAKS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TREASURE VALLEY CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| BYU LATINO ALUMNI CHAPTER | $5,000 |
| THE SHALEM FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–23, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 32% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +45% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 3 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- WWWILFORD WOODRUFF PAPERS FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $115k · revenue +203%
- AFAHA FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $85k · revenue +9%
- SVSUN VALLEY POLICY FORUM INC3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- BRBOISE RESCUE MISSIONone grant, 2021 · $50k
- SASALVATION ARMY CAPITAL CAMPAIGNone grant, 2017 · $40k
- CTCRUSH THE CURVE IDAHOone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
Public education (local education agency) - sage international school engages students within an inclusive ib learning community, challenging all members to take risks and contribute locally and globally through open-minded inquiry.
The mission of the Foundation is to stimulate voluntary private support from alumni, parents, friends, corporations, foundations, and others for the benefit of the University and its students.
To develop and advocate the principles of individual liberty, personal responsibility, private property rights, economic freedom, and limited, transparent government
The idaho community foundation strengthens communities through philanthropy, elevating nonprofit impact, and connecting idahoans to create a place where everyone can contribute to thriving communities.
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.
The Idaho Wildlife Federation (IWF) promotes the conservation of Idaho's wildlife heritage and legacy of sporting opportunities for the current and future generations.
Mission: The Idaho Immunization Coalition is a vital assembly of statewide stakeholders dedicated to promoting health and preventing serious illness through immunization protection of all Idahoans. Vision: Cultivate and mobilize expertise,…
Public Education.
Public Education.
Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance iowa state university's land grant ideals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is St Alphonsus Foundation Inc. 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 28 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 76 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 WILFORD WOODRUFF PAPERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STANLEY SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AHA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY POLICY FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRE EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAWTOOTH SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Treasure Valley Classical Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Ghana Make a Difference ↗
- Who funds IDAHO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Stand With Ukraine Inc dba To Ukraine With Love ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX MULTISPORT INC ↗
- Who funds STELLA H OAKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Greater Boise Aquatics Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PHD PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ST ALPHONSUS FOUNDATION 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 Community Foundation Inc · The Julius C Jeker Foundation Inc · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Hansberger Foundation · Bates Family Foundation Inc · Four J Foundation · Langan Barber Foundation · William and Martha Moseley Charitable Trust · The Bews Foundation · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · American Endowment 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 Obsidian 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.
- Aha Foundation Inc — 42% of income from government
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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