Idaho · Private foundation
The Bews Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $948k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 33
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $22M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations The Bews Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $948k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $884k | 48% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $945k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $1.1M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $877k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $917k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $353k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boise State University Foundation Inc | $675,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The College of Idaho Inc | $475,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Ada Co Id | $400,000 | 3 | 3% |
| The Young Mens Christian Association of Boise City Idaho | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Idaho Foodbank Warehouse | $205,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Women's and Children's Alliance | $170,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Bronco Athletic Association Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Lifes Kitchen Inc | $115,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Meridian Food Bank Inc | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Sw Id Inc | $65,000 | 3 | 3% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Bews Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About The Bews Foundation
- How much does The Bews Foundation give?
- The Bews Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $947,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 33 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Bews Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Philanthropy (23%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are The Bews Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Boise State University Foundation Inc ($675k), The College of Idaho Inc ($475k), Boys and Girls Clubs of Ada Co Id ($400k).
- Does The Bews Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bews Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bews Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Idaho Community Foundation Inc, Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc, The Julius C Jeker Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Bews Foundation based?
- The Bews Foundation is based in ID.
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