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The Borbonus Family Foundation Inc

To provide and promote educational programs for young people involved in the game of golf with funds generated for such purposes through charitable means to the extend such activities constitute exempt purposes under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended from time to time; and to provide and promote the…

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.2MHuman Services$678kRecreation & Sports$647kEducation$349kFood & Nutrition$271kArts & Culture$80kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kPublic Benefit$48kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $83k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIGHER GROUND$200,000
AMERICAN CLASSICAL SCHOOL OF IDAHO$190,000
WYAKIN FOUNDATION$152,815
IDAHO VETERANS NETWORK CORPORATION$101,000
FIRST TEE OF IDAHO$100,000
SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND$100,000
TREASURE VALLEY CLASSICAL ACADEMY$100,000
IDAHO VETERANS ASSISTANCE LEAGUE$55,000
BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY$55,000
MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART$41,565
VETERANS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE$25,000
GEM STATE BLINDED VETS REG ASSOC$16,566
SYRINGA SPEAKER SERIES$5,000
VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA IDAHO CHAPTER$1,565
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN GIFT FUND: $1.0M → 10%HIGHER GROUND: $200k → 7%BOISE RESCUE MISSION: $50k → 8%IDAHO BACKCOUNTRY VETERANS: $5k → 11%OPERATION WARMHEART: $50k → 11%AMERICAN CLASSICAL SCHOOL OF IDAHO: $190k → 12%IVAL BRAVEHEARTS: $20k → 13%TIGER WOODS CHARITY EVENT CORP: $30k → 10%SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $100k → 11%MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART: $42k → 6%AMERICAN GIFT FUND: $202k → 10%SYRINGA SPEAKER SERIES: $5k → 8%IDAHO WOMEN'S VETERAN'S MEMORIAL: $50k → 11%AMERICAN CLASSICAL SCHOOL OF IDAHO: $155k → 12%IVAL BRAVEHEARTS: $20k → 13%SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $100k → 11%MILITARY ORDER OF PURPLE HEART FDTN: $10k → 6%ROCKY MTN SECTION PGA FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%AMERICAN CLASSICAL SCHOOL OF IDAHO: $130k → 12%IVAL BRAVEHEARTS: $12k → 13%WYAKIN FOUNDATION: $155k → 8%TREASURE VALLEY CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $100k → 12%WYAKIN FOUNDATION: $153k → 8%WYAKIN FOUNDATION: $150k → 8%VETERANS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE: $30k → 8%IDAHO VETERANS NETWORK CORPORATION: $101k → 8%VETERANS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE: $25k → 8%THE IDAHO GUARD & RESERVE FAMILY SUPPORT: $50k → 8%VETERANS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE: $25k → 8%IDAHO VETERANS NETWORK CORPORATION: $25k → 8%IDAHO'S COMBAT WOUNDED VETERANS INC: $40k → 8%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY: $60k → 8%IDAHO'S COMBAT WOUNDED VETERANS INC: $40k → 8%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY: $55k → 8%GEM STATE BLINDED VETS REG ASSOC: $17k → 8%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 8%GEM STATE BLINDED VETS REG ASSOC: $15k → 8%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 8%GEM STATE BLINDED VETS REG ASSOC: $15k → 8%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 8%FIRST TEE OF IDAHO: $100k → 8%FIRST TEE OF IDAHO: $100k → 8%FIRST TEE OF IDAHO: $100k → 8%FIRST TEE OF IDAHO: $50k → 8%BOISE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $35k → 8%BOISE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $35k → 8%BOISE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%WISHES GOLF INC: $15k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 41% of The Borbonus Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Borbonus Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 15 repeat orgs$773k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
12

Total granted

$2.5M
$425k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+0%

Still filing today

47%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $348k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Public BenefitRecreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • AC
    AMERICAN CLASSICAL SCHOOLS OF IDAHO INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $475k · revenue +201% · 28% of their budget
  • IV
    Idaho Veterans Network Corporation
    2× · 2024–2025 · $126k · revenue +125% · 29% of their budget
  • IG
    IDAHO GOVERNORS CUP SCHOLARSHIP FUND IN
    3× · 2021–2023 · $49k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • TI
    THE IDAHO GUARD & RESERVE FAMILY SUPPORT
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • OW
    OPERATION WARMHEART
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • RM
    ROCKY MTN SECTION PGA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
Brave Hearts Idaho
Arts & Culture
2
Idaho Fraternal Order of Police Foundation Inc
Crime & Legal
3
Combat Arms Reunion Experience

To heal and find purpose for combat vets

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4
Idaho Operation Lifesaver
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5
Vietnam Veterans of America Alaska

Assisting veterans with services-connected disabilities and related benefits. service officers to help find benefits for veterans.

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6
Idaho Falls Fraternal Order of Police Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
7
Indigenous Idaho Alliance Inc
Civil Rights
8
Idaho Defense Alliance Inc Co Pulliam & Associates

Idaho defense alliance (ida) is a member based nonprofit organization. ida educates and raises the awareness of key stakeholders concerning current and potential idaho military missions, the impact of veterans on the idaho economy and…

Employment
9
Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Wyoming

Assist disabled and needy veterans.

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10
Disabled American Veterans Department of Idaho

Empowering veterans to lead high-quality lives with respect and dignity

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11
Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health Inc
Health
12
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Idaho Guard & Reserve Family Support; the most unlike its peers is Operation Warmheart. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
9/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WYAKIN FOUNDATION: $457,815 · OtherWYAKIN FOUNDATIONFIRST TEE OF IDAHO: $350,000 · OtherFIRST TEE OF IDAHOIDAHO VETERANS ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC: $275,790 · OtherIDAHO VETERANS ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INCBOISE STATE UNIVERSITY: $195,000 · OtherBOISE STATE UNIVERSITYBOISE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $85,000 · OtherVETERANS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE: $80,000 · Other+11 more: $341,465 · Other+11 moreAMERICAN GIFT FUND: $1,202,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN GIFT FUNDOPERATION WARMHEART: $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $30,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN CLASSICAL SCHOOLS OF IDAHO INC: $475,000 · EducationAMERICAN CLASSI…Treasure Valley Classical Academy Inc: $100,000 · EducationTreasure Valley…IDAHO GOVERNORS CUP SCHOLARSHIP FUND IN: $49,200 · EducationIDAHO GOVERNORS…HIGHER GROUND USA INC: $200,000 · Recreation & SportsBOISE YOUTH AMATEUR HOCKEY: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsNORTH BOISE LITTLE LEAUGE INC: $32,000 · Recreation & SportsWISHES GOLF INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsIdaho Veterans Network Corporation: $126,000 · Public BenefitIDAHO VETERANS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $48,000 · Public BenefitMILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART OF THE USA INC: $41,565 · Public Benefit+1 more: $5,000 · Public BenefitSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $200,000 · HealthIDAHO'S COMBAT WOUNDED VETERANS INC: $80,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,785,070Philanthropy$1,282,000Education$624,200Recreation & Sports$302,000Public Benefit$220,565Health$200,000Arts & Culture$80,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN GIFT FUND: $1,202,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN CLASSICAL SCHOOLS OF IDAHO INC: $475,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetIDAHO VETERANS ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC: $275,790 over 2y, 41% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHIGHER GROUND USA INC: $200,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetIdaho Veterans Network Corporation: $126,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetTreasure Valley Classical Academy Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetIDAHO'S COMBAT WOUNDED VETERANS INC: $80,000 over 2y, 97% of budgetTHE IDAHO GUARD & RESERVE FAMILY SUPPORT: $50,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetBOISE YOUTH AMATEUR HOCKEY: $50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetIDAHO GOVERNORS CUP SCHOLARSHIP FUND IN: $49,200 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetIDAHO VETERANS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $48,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART OF THE USA INC: $41,565 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetNORTH BOISE LITTLE LEAUGE INC: $32,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTIGER WOODS CHARITY EVENT CORP: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWISHES GOLF INC: $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetBACKCOUNTRY VETERANS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSYRINGA SPEAKER SERIES: $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

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    How do I get to The Borbonus Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Borbonus Family 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 33 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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