· Private foundation
The James & Barbara Cimino Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of THE JAMES & BARBARA CIMINO FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $320k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IDAHO BASE CAMP | $220,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB PUERTO RICO | $200,000 |
| WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST | $200,000 |
| FAR WISE | $75,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $55,000 |
| SENIOR CONNECTION | $45,000 |
| AMERICAN PRAIRIE RESERVE | $45,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP PAYMENTS TO VARIOUS UNI | $30,000 |
| SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FUND | $30,000 |
| ENTERPRISE EVENTS GUAYACAN ENDOWMEN | $30,000 |
| PARA LA NATURALEZA | $25,000 |
| THE SPACE | $25,000 |
| KETCHUM COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $25,000 |
| IDAHO PUBLIC TELEVISION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
29 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 8 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $280k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- IBIDAHO BASE CAMP INC2× · 2022–2024 · $240k · revenue +4%
- FIFARWISE INC2× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +86%
- BCBLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION6× · 2018–2024 · $145k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- CACARLOS ALBIZU UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2022 · $260k · revenue -5%
- TSThe Space Idaho Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $52k · revenue +135%
- COCITY OF KETCHUM PARKS RECone grant, 2018 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Wild landscapes, inc. (wli) is dedicated to conserving large and connected landscapes globally significant to wildlife and crucial to local communities. our environmental conservation strategy is to empower communities, conservationists,…
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.
The Idaho Wildlife Federation (IWF) promotes the conservation of Idaho's wildlife heritage and legacy of sporting opportunities for the current and future generations.
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
Wildlands Network works to reconnect, restore and rewild North America so that life-in all its diversity-can thrive.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yellowstone Forever and the most unlike its peers is Para La Naturaleza Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 52 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO ↗
- Who funds CARLOS ALBIZU UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO BASE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds FARWISE INC ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The Space Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds PARA LA NATURALEZA INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Idaho Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds LIVING WITH WOLVES LTD ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
- Who funds KINESIS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Spur Community Foundation Inc · Greater Horizons · Boswell Family Foundation · Sahm Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The James & Barbara Cimino Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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