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Spur Community Foundation Inc

Spur's mission is to inspire effective philanthropy for the wood river valley.

$3.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
75
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$450k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Public Benefit$9.2MEducation$4.3MHousing & Shelter$2.8MCrime & Legal$1.1MHealth$1.1MHuman Services$904kRecreation & Sports$885kArts & Culture$806kOther$0
02FY2024 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 75 grants below total $3,707,417, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,826,454 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $119,037 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $834k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $2.4M
  • $250k+1 grant · $450k
$21,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY CANCER FUND: $13k → 12%COMMUNITY CANCER FUND: $10k → 12%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $15k → 8%SWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $81k → 7%SWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $30k → 7%SWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTR: $25k → 7%SWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTR: $25k → 7%SWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $20k → 7%SWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTR: $20k → 7%SWIFTSURE RANCH: $15k → 7%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $70k → 7%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $51k → 7%SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE: $51k → 7%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $45k → 7%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $35k → 7%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $33k → 7%FUTURE ROOTS: $28k → 7%SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE: $25k → 7%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $10k → 7%FLOURISH FOUNDATION INC: $111k → 7%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE WOOD RIVER VALLEY INC: $60k → 7%FLOURISH FOUNDATION INC: $45k → 7%FLOURISH FOUNDATION INC: $40k → 7%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE WOOD RIVER VALLEY INC: $29k → 7%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE WOOD RIVER VALLEY INC: $27k → 7%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE WRV: $27k → 7%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE WO: $25k → 7%SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE: $20k → 7%SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE: $20k → 7%SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE: $20k → 7%HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF WRV: $11k → 7%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE WRV: $10k → 7%HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF WRV: $10k → 7%SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE: $10k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MT
MN
NY
WY
CA
UT
MD
TN
DC
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 58 repeat orgs$817k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
21

Total granted

$22M
$356k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+26%

Still filing today

91%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $461k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SV
    Sun Valley Community School Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +56%
  • AF
    ADVOCATES FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $815k · revenue +112%
  • WR
    WOOD RIVER COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $680k · revenue +89% · 93% of their budget

Funded once

  • SB
    SAWTOOTH BOTANICAL GARDEN
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -74%
  • NR
    NAMI-WOOD RIVER VALLEY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -39%
  • TY
    Too Young to Wed Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -31%
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
Sierra Watch

Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.

Environment
2
Ecosystem Sciences Foundation Inc

River and watershed restoration

Environment
3
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
4
Idaho Conservation League Inc

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.

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5
Sagebrush Steppe Land Trust Inc

Our mission is to protect, connect, and enhance wildlife habitat, working lands, and community spaces in southeast idaho, now and for future generations.

Environment
6
Land Trust of the Treasure Valley

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…

Environment
7
Wallowa Land Trust

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.

Environment
8
Sheridan Community Land Trust

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.

Environment
9
Summit Land Conservancy

Summit land conservancy works with utah communities to conserve land and water for the benefit of the people and nature.

Environment
10
Southwest Idaho Resource Conservation and Development Inc

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…

Environment
11
Western Rivers Conservancy

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…

Environment
12
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sun Valley Center for the Arts Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

92 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/92
Grantees still filing
64/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF KETCHUM: $9,031,202 · OtherCITY OF KETCHUMCITY OF SUN VALLEY: $1,270,950 · OtherCITY OF SUN VALLEYADVOCATES FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT INC: $814,533 · OtherADVOCATES FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT INCBLAINE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 61 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $526,240 · Other+53 more: $3,514,986 · Other+53 moreSun Valley Community School Inc: $2,546,850 · EducationSun Valley Communi…FARWISE INC: $424,700 · EducationFARWISE INCTHE SAGE SCHOOL INC: $270,000 · EducationTHE SAGE SCHOOL IN…The Space Idaho Inc: $206,000 · EducationThe Space Idaho In…LEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC: $160,500 · Education+6 more: $232,350 · Education+6 moreBLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $244,312 · Human ServicesSWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $215,845 · Human ServicesHOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE WOOD RIVER VALLEY INC: $199,250 · Human ServicesFLOURISH FOUNDATION INC: $195,500 · Human ServicesSUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE: $173,500 · Human ServicesSHELTERBOX USA INC: $110,000 · Human Services+3 more: $47,500 · Human ServicesWOOD RIVER COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST INC: $679,500 · Housing & ShelterARCH COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST INC: $235,500 · Housing & ShelterBlaine County Housing Foundation: $99,290 · Housing & ShelterWood River Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $393,600 · Recreation & SportsWOOD RIVER TRAILS COALITION INC: $143,003 · Recreation & SportsHIGHER GROUND USA INC: $128,500 · Recreation & SportsUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $56,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $32,900 · Recreation & SportsSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $323,750 · Arts & CultureSUN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS INC: $165,333 · Arts & CultureIdaho Womens Athletic Foundation Inc: $79,872 · Arts & CultureTHE LIBERTY THEATRE COMPANY: $67,022 · Arts & CultureToo Young to Wed Inc: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $62,845 · Arts & CultureST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $397,000 · HealthTHE CRISIS HOTLINE INC: $87,954 · HealthNAMI-WOOD RIVER VALLEY INC: $30,000 · HealthTHE INSTITUTE FOR ETHNOMEDICINE INC DBA BRAIN CHEMISTRY LABS: $25,000 · Health+6 more: $47,000 · Health
Other$15,157,911Education$3,840,400Human Services$1,185,907Housing & Shelter$1,014,290Recreation & Sports$754,003Arts & Culture$723,822Health$586,954

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSun Valley Community School Inc: $2,546,850 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetADVOCATES FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT INC: $814,533 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetWOOD RIVER COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST INC: $679,500 over 3y, 93% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 61 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $526,240 over 5y, 32% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC: $454,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetFARWISE INC: $424,700 over 4y, 10% of budgetST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $397,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetWood River Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $393,600 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetMEN'S SECOND CHANCE LIVING: $389,600 over 6y, 21% of budgetSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $323,750 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetALLIANCE OF IDAHO INC: $321,850 over 4y, 28% of budgetTHE SAGE SCHOOL INC: $270,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $244,312 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetARCH COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST INC: $235,500 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY CHARITABLE FUND INC: $234,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $227,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $215,845 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetThe Space Idaho Inc: $206,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetHOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE WOOD RIVER VALLEY INC: $199,250 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetFLOURISH FOUNDATION INC: $195,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetSUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE: $173,500 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetSUN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS INC: $165,333 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetLEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC: $160,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetSUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $155,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetWOOD RIVER TRAILS COALITION INC: $143,003 over 5y, 14% of budgetSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $132,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHIGHER GROUND USA INC: $128,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SAWTOOTH NATIONAL FOREST AVALANCHE CENTER INC: $123,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetThe Community Library Association Inc: $121,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO: $116,553 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC: $110,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetROTARUN SKI CLUB: $105,500 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetBlaine County Housing Foundation: $99,290 over 3y, 30% of budgetTHE CRISIS HOTLINE INC: $87,954 over 5y, 12% of budgetANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE: $87,044 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE LIBERTY THEATRE COMPANY: $67,022 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $61,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP RAINBOW GOLD INC: $56,600 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $56,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAWTOOTH SOCIETY INC: $55,200 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE CENTER: $53,503 over 2y, 12% of budgetSAWTOOTH BOTANICAL GARDEN: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSUN VALLEY WELLNESS INSTITUTE: $40,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetSUN VALLEY CULINARY INSTITUTE INC: $37,550 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetIDAHO BASE CAMP INC: $37,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSILVER CREEK ALLIANCE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetTHE SANTA BARBARA BIRD SANCTUARY: $34,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetNAMI-WOOD RIVER VALLEY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 19% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Idaho Community Found…Boswell Family Founda…Nancy Eccles and Home…The Springcreek Found…St Luke's Health Syst…The Nalen FoundationHelios FoundationThe Bessemer Giving F…Heinz Family Foundati…Elizabeth a Lynn Foun…Koa Charitable TrustNicholas Martin Jr Fa…
Idaho Community Foundation IncID76.9× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Spur Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spur Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Spur Community 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 105 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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