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Spur Community Foundation Inc
Spur's mission is to inspire effective philanthropy for the wood river valley.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 75 grants below total $3,707,417 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,826,454 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $119,037 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k43 grants · $834k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADVOCATES FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC | $450,033 |
| ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION | $222,500 |
| BLAINE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $201,415 |
| FAR WISE | $177,000 |
| CITY OF SUN VALLEY | $156,847 |
| THE ALLIANCE OF IDAHO | $154,000 |
| SUN VALLEY COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $135,750 |
| ARCH COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST | $119,500 |
| THE SPACE | $116,000 |
| MEN'S SECOND CHANCE LIVING | $113,600 |
| FLOURISH FOUNDATION INC | $110,500 |
| SHELTER BOX USA | $110,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE BIG WOOD | $100,000 |
| WOOD RIVER COMMUNITY YMCA | $94,100 |
| SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $92,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% 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 +28% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 24 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $461k 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
- SVSun Valley Community School Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +56%
- AFADVOCATES FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT INC5× · 2019–2024 · $815k · revenue +112%
- WRWOOD RIVER COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST INC3× · 2022–2024 · $680k · revenue +89% · 93% of their budget
Funded once
- SBSAWTOOTH BOTANICAL GARDENone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -74%
- NRNAMI-WOOD RIVER VALLEY INCone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -39%
- TYToo Young to Wed Incone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -31%
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.
Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.
River and watershed restoration
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
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.
Our mission is to protect, connect, and enhance wildlife habitat, working lands, and community spaces in southeast idaho, now and for future generations.
To create oppurtunites for conservation of natural, scenic, historic, recreational and agricultural values of southwestern idaho's open spaces through collabarative efforts for current and future generations. the land trust indentifies…
Our mission is to protect the rural nature of Wallowa County by working cooperatively with private landowners,indigenous people, local communities and governmental entities to conserve land.
Sheridan community land trust preserves our open spaces, healthy rivers and creeks, working ranches, wildlife habitat, and vibrant history, while expanding recreation opportunities to connect people with the places they love.
Summit land conservancy works with utah communities to conserve land and water for the benefit of the people and nature.
To enhance the quality of life for residents of rc&d area by identifying problems, setting common objectives, goals, implementing projects, by providing planning, education, and technical assistance for conservation and development of…
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sun Valley Center for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wood River 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.
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 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
92 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. 92 of the 105 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 Sun Valley Community School Inc ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT INC ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 61 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds FARWISE INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wood River Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MEN'S SECOND CHANCE LIVING ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE OF IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds ARCH COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Space Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE WOOD RIVER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds FLOURISH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds LEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER TRAILS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SAWTOOTH NATIONAL FOREST AVALANCHE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Community Library Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARUN SKI CLUB ↗
- Who funds Blaine County Housing Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CRISIS HOTLINE INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE ↗
- Who funds Idaho Womens Athletic 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 · Boswell Family Foundation · Nancy Eccles and Homer M Hayward Family Foundation · The Springcreek Foundation · St Luke's Health System Ltd · The Nalen Foundation · Helios Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Heinz Family Foundation · Elizabeth a Lynn Foundation · Koa Charitable Trust · Nicholas Martin Jr Family 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 Spur Community 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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