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S R Simplot Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

S R 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$5.0MEducation$2.1MHousing & Shelter$350kHealth$160kYouth Development$105kArts & Culture$80kRecreation & Sports$10k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO FOUNDATION$1,110,000
INTERFAITH SANCTUARY$100,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ADA COUNTY$100,000
OPEN ARMS DANCE PROJECT$5,000
BREAKING CHAINS ACADEMY OF DEVELOPMENT$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TREASURE VALLEY CHILDREN'S THEATER: $50k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 3 repeat orgs$355k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

$2.5M
$250k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
+5%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterHealthHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    University of Idaho Foundation Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +19%
  • IS
    INTERFAITH SANCTUARY HOUSING SERVICES INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $350k · revenue -57%
  • OA
    OPEN ARMS DANCE PROJECT
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +5%
  • SS
    Sparkmed Stanford University
    one grant, 2020 · $60k
  • TV
    TREASURE VALLEY CHILDREN'S THEATER
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +5%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Idaho Technology Council Inc

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

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2
Opera Idaho Inc

The primary mission of Opera Idaho is to fund and produce opera of the highest possible professional standard, in Boise and throughout the State of Idaho, and to foster wider acceptance, appreciation and enjoyment of opera and related art…

Arts & Culture
3
Panida Theater Committee Inc

To restore and manage a historic theater. To bring film, performing arts, concerts, dance and live entertainment to the community.

Arts & Culture
4
Underdogs Boise
Arts & Culture
5
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
6
Icon Credit Union

Our promise is to deliver an experience of financial success, with unique style, at every stage of your life.

—
7
Idaho Law Foundation Inc

The Idaho Law Foundation maintains a continuing legal education program and administers grants to 1) educate the public, 2) provide legal services to the state's indigent, 3) develop programs to improve the administration of justice and…

—
8
Indigenous Idaho Alliance Inc
Civil Rights
9
Idaho State University Foundation Inc

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.

Education
10
Intermountain Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood of Montana empowers all people to make informed decisions and ensures the freedom to manage their own sexuality, and personal health by providing the highest quality confidential healthcare services, education, and…

Health
11
Ballet Idaho Inc

Ballet idaho's mission is to engage with idaho communities to create immersive dance performances and educational experiences that are accessible to all. we enrich our community through quality performances, disciplined training, dance…

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Idaho Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Open Arms Dance Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,010,238 · PhilanthropyIDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCUniversity of Idaho Foundation Inc: $2,110,000 · EducationUniversity of Idaho Foundation…INTERFAITH SANCTUARY HOUSING SERVICES INC: $350,000 · Housing & ShelterBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ADA COUNTY: $100,000 · OtherSparkmed Stanford University: $60,000 · OtherIDAHO HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITIES FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherDURANGO SWIM CLUB: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $100,000 · HealthTREASURE VALLEY CHILDREN'S THEATER: $50,000 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS DANCE PROJECT: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSUN VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$5,010,238Education$2,110,000Housing & Shelter$350,000Other$195,000Health$100,000Human Services$50,000Arts & Culture$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,010,238 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetUniversity of Idaho Foundation Inc: $2,110,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetINTERFAITH SANCTUARY HOUSING SERVICES INC: $350,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREASURE VALLEY CHILDREN'S THEATER: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetOPEN ARMS DANCE PROJECT: $20,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetSUN VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBreaking Chains Academy of Development Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization S R Simplot Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from S R Simplot Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to S R Simplot Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to S R Simplot 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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