· Private foundation
The Campfire Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Thomas Playhouse | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Footlight Dance Center | $2,000 |
| City of Ketchum Parks and Recreatio | $2,000 |
| Blaine County 4H | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Wilderness Science Education | $1,500 |
| Idaho Diabetes Youth Programs | $1,500 |
| Laughing Stock Theatre | $1,500 |
| Girls on the Run | $1,250 |
| Blaine County Education Foundation | $1,000 |
| 5B Anglers | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 12% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 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; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ERENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE CENTER6× · 2017–2023 · $8k · revenue +36%
- LSLAUGHING STOCK THEATRE COMPANY6× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +59%
- GOGIRLS ON THE RUN IDAHO INC DBA Girls on the Run Treasure Valley7× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +195%
Funded once
- IYIdaho Youth Diabetes Programone grant, 2017 · $2k
- DEDonnelly Elementary Schoolone grant, 2020 · $2k
- BUBoise Urban Garden Schoolone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +1%
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.
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.
Public Education.
The boise bard players is a mobile theatre company making shakespeare and other classics economically and emotionally accessible to residends of the treasure valley and beyond.
Performing arts
Public Education.
The Idaho Museum of Mining & Geology exists to educate children and adults on Idaho's geologic and mining history.
environmental education
Environmental education.
At Washington Outdoor School we cultivate learning and growth in joyful partnership with nature and our community. WE BELIEVE THAT INTERACTING WITH NATURE ENCOURAGES A SENSE OF PLACE, AWAKENS CURIOSITY AND CREATES HEALTHY MINDS AND BODIES.
Public Education.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LAUGHING STOCK THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN IDAHO INC DBA Girls on the Run Treasure Valley ↗
- Who funds BOULDER MOUNTAIN CLAYWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS SCIENCE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Boise Urban Garden School ↗
- Who funds Idaho Diabetes Youth Program ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 61 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUN VALLEY BALLET FOUNDATION 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Campfire Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Campfire Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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