· Private foundation
Sylvan Creek 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.
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 $10k10 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Faces of Hope Foundation | $10,000 |
| Jesse Tree | $7,667 |
| Corpus Commons | $3,577 |
| Brave Hearts Idaho | $3,500 |
| Adaptive Wilderness Sports of McCal | $2,012 |
| Giraffe Laugh | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Mini Joys Inc | $1,800 |
| Learning Lab | $1,739 |
| Idaho Backcountry Veterans | $1,013 |
| Idaho Public Television | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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 +74% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- TJTHE JESSE TREE OF IDAHO INC4× · 2021–2024 · $52k · revenue +16%
- ISIDAHO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC3× · 2017–2019 · $42k · revenue +42%
- LLLEARNING LAB INC9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- HRHiatus Ranch of Idaho Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue +47%
- MAMcPaws Animal Shelterone grant, 2017 · $8k
- WWWounded Warior Projectone grant, 2022 · $7k
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.
Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…
Idaho legal aid services inc is a statewide nonprofit law firm dedicated to providing equal access for low-income people through quality advocacy and education
The organization protects, promotes and advances the legal and human rights of individuals with disabilities, through quality legal, individual, and system advocacy.
"With open hearts and expertise, we serve the seriously ill and those touched by loss." Our grief and loss program is provided to patients' loved ones, but is also available to other members of our community. Palliative services are…
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.
The Boise Farmers Market supports a regenerative, healthy food and agricultural system by operating a vibrant marketplace featuring locally grown and crafted products.
Nami idaho works to improve the quality of life for all those affected by mental illness through support, education, advocacy and research.
The idaho health care association, inc. is a member driven association whose mission is to provide the unified voice for the betterment of the idaho nursing home and assisted living care professionals and the residents they serve.
To coordinate and advance the economic well being of the Idaho Beef Industry through innovative and effective political,educational, and marketing programs accepted and supported by all industry segments, partners, and coalitions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Idaho Botanical Garden Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brave Hearts Idaho. 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 24 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 41 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 THE JESSE TREE OF IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds LEARNING LAB INC ↗
- Who funds MINI JOYS INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX MULTISPORT INC ↗
- Who funds Hiatus Ranch of Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds BACKCOUNTRY VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH SANCTUARY HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FUZZY PAWZ RESCUE LLC ↗
- Who funds Bronco Athletic Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Women's and Children's Alliance ↗
- Who funds BRAVE HEARTS IDAHO ↗
- Who funds The Momentum Group Create Common Good ↗
- Who funds LIFES KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ADVOCATE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SheJumps ↗
- Who funds Adaptive Wilderness Sports of McCall Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRAFFE LAUGH INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Idaho Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERA IDAHO 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 · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Harad Family Foundation · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · The Julius C Jeker Foundation Inc · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · St Luke's Health System Ltd · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Thomas M and Carol F Smith Family Foundation · Langan Barber 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 Sylvan Creek 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.