Idaho · Private foundation
The Hackborn 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.
- $51k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $887k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations The Hackborn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 | 22 | $51k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $48k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $47k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $54k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $45k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $42k | 5% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $42k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $40k | 11% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho Foodbank Warehouse | $50,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Ballet Idaho Inc | $34,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Peregrine Fund Inc | $20,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East | $18,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Lifes Kitchen Inc | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Discovery Center of Idaho Inc | $15,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Boise Rescue Mission | $15,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Learning Lab Inc | $14,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Idaho Shakespeare Festival Inc | $13,500 | 5 | 0% |
| St Alphonsus Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 9 | 3% |
Show all 25 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho Foodbank Warehouse | $50,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Ballet Idaho Inc | $34,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Peregrine Fund Inc | $20,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East | $18,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Lifes Kitchen Inc | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Discovery Center of Idaho Inc | $15,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Boise Rescue Mission | $15,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Learning Lab Inc | $14,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Idaho Shakespeare Festival Inc | $13,500 | 5 | 0% |
| St Alphonsus Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Oregon State University Foundation | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Northwest Abortion Access Fund | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Boise Philharmonic Association Inc | $6,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $5,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Mills College | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Middle East Children's Alliance | $3,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Black Oregon Land Trust | $3,500 | 1 | n/a |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Womens Foundation of Oregon | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Kindness Farm | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Pear | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Boise State University Foundation Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Portland Child Art Studio | $2,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Woodhaven School | $2,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Northwest Documentary Arts & Media | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($141k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hackborn Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 Power Foundation Inc · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · Langan Barber Foundation · Harad Family Foundation · The Julius C Jeker Foundation Inc · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · The Autzen Foundation
How this is measured
About The Hackborn Foundation
- How much does The Hackborn Foundation give?
- The Hackborn Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $51,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Hackborn Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (22%), Education (18%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are The Hackborn Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Idaho Foodbank Warehouse ($50k), Ballet Idaho Inc ($35k), The Peregrine Fund Inc ($20k).
- Does The Hackborn Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Hackborn Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Hackborn Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Idaho Power Foundation Inc, Simplot Company Foundation Inc, Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Hackborn Foundation based?
- The Hackborn Foundation is based in ID.
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