· Private foundation
The John F Nagel Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $193k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLLEGE OF WESTERN IDAHO | $224,000 |
| BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| ST LUKE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $125,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $106,960 |
| WARHAWK AIR MUSEUM | $90,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ADA COUNTY | $75,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF ADA COUNTY | $60,500 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BOISE | $60,000 |
| WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE | $60,000 |
| IDAHO DIABETES YOUTH PROGRAMS - CAMP HODIA | $60,000 |
| FACES OF HOPE FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF SW IDAHO | $54,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $47,500 |
| CHILDREN'S FREE DENTAL CLINIC INC | $40,000 |
| JAYDEN DELUCA FOUNDATION | $32,500 |
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 (FY21–24, $236k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ADA CO ID4× · 2021–2024 · $300k · revenue +43%
- SOSOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL HOLY SPIRIT CONFERENCE4× · 2021–2024 · $209k · revenue +16% · 30% of their budget
- JDJayden DeLuca Foundation Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $110k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- TCThe College of Idaho Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue +32%
- PBPATHS - BISHOP KELLEYone grant, 2023 · $38k
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.
Museum
To provide alternate educational opportunities for Idaho children.
Support salt lake county children's justice center
To inspire and enable young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens in the southeast idaho area.
Prevention of child abuse
Child abuse victim assistance
Provide a safe place for youth to go for recreational and educational programs.
Recreation youth development
Operation of a children's advocacy center
Hold funds and distribute income to the boys & girls club of the lewis clark valley, inc, a non-profit idaho corporation.
To promote, ensure & maintain excellent & comprehensive educational opportunities for the children and youth served by Idaho Educational Services for the Deaf and Blind from birth to 26 years of age across the state of Idaho.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those from diverse circumstances to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens and leaders.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Ada Co Id and the most unlike its peers is Society of Saint Vincent De Paul Holy Spirit Conference. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 23 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 WARHAWK AIR MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ADA CO ID ↗
- Who funds Women's and Children's Alliance ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL HOLY SPIRIT CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds Childrens Free Dental Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds Jayden DeLuca Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MENTORING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds The College of Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Museum of Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CANYON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR IDAHO HISTORY ↗
- Who funds THE RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION 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 · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Julius C Jeker Foundation Inc · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Bews Foundation · St Luke's Health System Ltd · Union Pacific 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 John F Nagel Foundation 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.
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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