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The Bews Foundation at a glance

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The Bews Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$948k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.4MHuman Services$680kAnimals$655kYouth Development$563kFood & Nutrition$305kArts & Culture$250kHousing & Shelter$157kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $360k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $550k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF IDAHO$25,000
MERIDIAN FOOD BANK$25,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN TV$20,000
JESSE TREE$20,000
ST JOHNS FOOD BANK$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SW ID$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE CARE HOUSE LEARNING CENTER: $8k → 11%WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $40k → 8%WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $30k → 8%WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $30k → 8%WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $20k → 8%WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $20k → 8%CORPUS CHRISTI HOUSE: $17k → 8%WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $10k → 8%CORPUS CHRISTI HOUSE: $10k → 8%WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $10k → 8%CORPUS CHRISTI HOUSE: $10k → 8%WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $10k → 8%CORPUS CHRISTI HOUSE: $10k → 8%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $10k → 8%IDAHO DIAPER BANK: $5k → 8%IDAHO DIAPER BANK: $5k → 8%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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 36 repeat orgs$421k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
19

Total granted

$5.6M
$271k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+8%

Still filing today

61%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BS
    Boise State University Foundation Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $675k · revenue +198%
  • TC
    The College of Idaho Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $475k · revenue +62%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ADA CO ID
    3× · 2021–2024 · $400k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • SA
    SAINT ALPHONSUS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO
    one grant, 2020 · $33k
  • NN
    NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
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
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
2
Indigenous Idaho Alliance Inc
Civil Rights
3
Idaho Health Data Exchange Inc

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.

Health
4
Idaho Legal Aid Services Inc Idaho Legal Aid Services Inc

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

Crime & Legal
5
Brave Hearts Idaho
Arts & Culture
6
Underdogs Boise
Arts & Culture
7
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
8
Idaho Technology Council Inc

To help technology companies in Idaho start, grow, and thrive.

—
9
Idaho Health Care Association Inc

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.

—
10
Idaho Science & Technology Charter

Public Education.

Education
11
Idaho Arts Charter School Inc

Public Education.

Education
12
Disability Rights Idaho Inc

The organization protects, promotes and advances the legal and human rights of individuals with disabilities, through quality legal, individual, and system advocacy.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home Society of Idaho Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 68 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
25/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INV CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,350,000 · OtherFIDELITY INV CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDFRIENDS OF ZOO BOISE: $650,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF ZOO BOISETHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO: $250,000 · OtherTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHOWEST ADA SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUND: $113,944 · Other+42 more: $1,035,780 · Other+42 moreBoise State University Foundation Inc: $675,000 · EducationBoise State University F…The College of Idaho Inc: $475,000 · EducationThe College of Idaho IncLIFES KITCHEN INC: $115,000 · EducationLIFES KITCHEN INC+1 more: $25,000 · EducationBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ADA CO ID: $400,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF SILVER SAGE COUNCIL INC: $37,500 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $205,000 · Food & NutritionMERIDIAN FOOD BANK INC: $65,000 · Food & NutritionWomen's and Children's Alliance: $170,000 · Human ServicesCORPUS CHRISTI HOUSE INC: $47,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR CARE RESOURCE FOUNDATION CORP: $20,000 · Human ServicesIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesIDAHO DIAPER BANK INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $7,500 · Human ServicesTRICA INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureChildren's Museum of Idaho Inc: $60,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DISCOVERY CENTER OF IDAHO INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureBOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureLOG CABIN LITERARY CENTER INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBronco Athletic Association Inc: $150,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,399,724Education$1,290,000Youth Development$442,500Food & Nutrition$270,000Human Services$264,500Arts & Culture$170,000Recreation & Sports$150,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoise State University Foundation Inc: $675,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetThe College of Idaho Inc: $475,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ADA CO ID: $400,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO: $250,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $205,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's and Children's Alliance: $170,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetBronco Athletic Association Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetLIFES KITCHEN INC: $115,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetMERIDIAN FOOD BANK INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SW ID INC: $65,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetTRICA INC: $60,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetIDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetChildren's Museum of Idaho Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCORPUS CHRISTI HOUSE INC: $47,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetFAMILY ADVOCATE PROGRAM INC: $45,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SILVER SAGE COUNCIL INC: $37,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDry Creek Historical Society Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetSAINT ALPHONSUS RMC AUXILIARY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetNORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF IDAHO INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY CENTER OF IDAHO INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOISE BICYCLE PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLOG CABIN LITERARY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENESIS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CLINICS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO DIAPER BANK INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLEARNING LAB INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities Of Idaho Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCatholic Charities of Idaho: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetINTERFAITH SANCTUARY HOUSING SERVICES INC: $9,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARE HOUSE LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED: $7,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN IDAHO INC DBA Girls on the Run Treasure Valley: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetIdaho Wildlife Federation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Boise Bard Players: $5,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetEducation Foundation For Joint School District #2 Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • 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 TRICA INC ↗
  • Who funds IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Museum of Idaho Inc ↗
  • Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY ADVOCATE PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SILVER SAGE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds Dry Creek Historical Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAINT ALPHONSUS RMC AUXILIARY INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF IDAHO INC ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR CARE RESOURCE FOUNDATION CORP ↗
  • Who funds THE DISCOVERY CENTER OF IDAHO INC ↗
  • Who funds BOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER INC ↗

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…Laura Moore Cunningha…The Julius C Jeker Fo…Claude R & Ethel B Wh…Simplot Company Found…St Luke's Health Syst…Idaho Power Foundatio…Lamb Weston Charitabl…Harad Family Foundati…M J Murdock Charitabl…Blue Cross of Idaho F…First Interstate Banc…
Idaho Community Foundation IncID62× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Bews Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Bews Foundation 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 68 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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