· Private foundation
The Confluence Institute Inc
Its FY2024 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, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
- $250k+1 grant · $552k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $552,000 |
| ADVOCATES FOR THE WEST | $120,000 |
| THE HUNGER COALITION | $15,000 |
| HIGH DESERT COLLEGE COLLABORATIVE | $15,000 |
| ARCH COMMUNITY HOUSING | $5,000 |
| FAR WISE | $5,000 |
| IDAHO RIVERS UNITED | $5,000 |
| THE HUB | $5,000 |
| BLAINE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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 +86% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $557k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFADVOCATES FOR THE WEST INC5× · 2020–2024 · $510k · revenue +97%
- BCBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC5× · 2018–2024 · $53k · revenue +217%
- FIFARWISE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- WCWHITE CLOUDS PRESERVE INCone grant, 2020 · $67k · revenue +1%
Earth Island Institute Incone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +19%- SWSERENGETI WATCHone grant, 2018 · $16k
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.
The Idaho Wildlife Federation (IWF) promotes the conservation of Idaho's wildlife heritage and legacy of sporting opportunities for the current and future generations.
Project big wood is organized to improve the environmental health and ecology of the big wood river basin in central idaho by protecting, enhancing, sustaining and reconnecting the big wood river, its tributaries and its watershed.
Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.
Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.
Wwt's mission is to protect and restore water in rivers and streams across washington state. washington water trust restores and protects water in rivers and streams and promotes sustainable freshwater management in washington, and, more…
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
River and watershed restoration
BWP leads reliable and intentional conservation initiatives that promote and provide clean, ample water for people and habitats by working with key partners and our communities
Public interest law firm - the western environmental law center uses the power of the law to foster thriving, resilient western u.s. lands, waters, wildlife, and communities in the face of a changing climate. we envision a thriving west,…
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 18 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 ADVOCATES FOR THE WEST INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE CLOUDS PRESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds FARWISE INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO RIVERS UNITED ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 61 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHANTI CHILDRENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Grapevine giving foundation ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Confluence Institute Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Confluence Institute Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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