· Private foundation
The Bews Foundation
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $360k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| FIDELITY INV CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $175,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ZOO BOISE | $100,000 |
| COLLEGE OF IDAHO | $75,000 |
| THE IDAHO FOODBANK | $35,000 |
| COLLEGE OF WESTERN IDAHO | $30,000 |
| TREASURE VALLEY YMCA | $25,000 |
| MERIDIAN FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF IDAHO | $25,000 |
| JESSE TREE | $20,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN TV | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| ST JOHNS FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SW ID | $15,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $245k) 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 +27% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 13 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
- BSBoise State University Foundation Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $675k · revenue +198%
- TCThe College of Idaho Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $475k · revenue +62%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ADA CO ID3× · 2021–2024 · $400k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- SASAINT ALPHONSUS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $50k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF IDAHOone grant, 2020 · $33k
- CHCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF IDAHO INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +7%
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.
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.
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
To help technology companies in Idaho start, grow, and thrive.
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.
Public Education.
Public Education.
The organization protects, promotes and advances the legal and human rights of individuals with disabilities, through quality legal, individual, and system advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home Society of Idaho Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Boise Bard Players. 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 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% 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 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.
40 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. 40 of the 68 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 Boise State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The College of Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ADA CO ID ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO ↗
- Who funds IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds Women's and Children's Alliance ↗
- Who funds Bronco Athletic Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFES KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MERIDIAN FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SW ID INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Museum of Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds TRICA INC ↗
- Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ADVOCATE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SILVER SAGE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT ALPHONSUS RMC AUXILIARY INC ↗
- Who funds Dry Creek Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CARE RESOURCE FOUNDATION CORP ↗
- Who funds THE DISCOVERY CENTER OF IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds BOISE BICYCLE PROJECT 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 · The Julius C Jeker Foundation Inc · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · St Luke's Health System Ltd · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Harad Family Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc
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 The Bews Foundation 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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