· Public charity
The Kissler Family Foundation
To provide funds for religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes, or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals.
Read this first · the figures below need context
78% of The Kissler Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Idaho Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year The Kissler Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $326k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $325,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,430,630 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,105,130 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $198k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOISE PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| IDAHO ELKS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL | $42,000 |
| BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ST LUKE'S HEALTH FOUNDATION | $23,400 |
| ST ALPHONSUS FOUNDATION | $15,600 |
| IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN | $15,000 |
| ZOO BOISE | $15,000 |
| WENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE | $11,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $10,500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $7,500 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $7,500 |
| CANYON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $7,500 |
| IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC | $5,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2017, 5 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
- SLSt Luke's Health Foundation Ltd8× · 2017–2024 · $261k · revenue +67%
- IEIDAHO ELKS REHAB HOSPITAL INC4× · 2017–2020 · $174k · revenue +69%
- BSBoise State University Foundation Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $174k · revenue +191%
Funded once
- BPBOISE PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +94%
- TVTREASURE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -24%
- AWAMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +9%
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.
We, saint alphonsus health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.saint alphonsus health system is a member of trinity health.
To improve the health of people in the communities we serve.
To improve the health of people in the communities we serve.
The mission of the Foundation is to stimulate voluntary private support from alumni, parents, friends, corporations, foundations, and others for the benefit of the University and its students.
The Idaho Law Foundation maintains a continuing legal education program and administers grants to 1) educate the public, 2) provide legal services to the state's indigent, 3) develop programs to improve the administration of justice and…
To support Bozeman Health Services by promoting community participation in and financial support of activities to improve community health and quality of life.
To improve the health of people in the communities we serve.
To encourage and support a healthier community.
To help technology companies in Idaho start, grow, and thrive.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Teton Valley Health Care Foundation strives to build mutually beneficial relationships with community members, businesses, and guests that, through their generosity, support a healthy and thriving valley. (Continued on Schedule O). Through…
IHDE exists to create and maintain a collaborative statewide effort to improve the coordination and quality of healthcare through the use of a health information exchange and health information technology.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Alphonsus Medical Center-Nampa Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Idaho Elks Rehab Hospital Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 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. 31 of the 38 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 IDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds St Luke's Health Foundation Ltd ↗
- Who funds IDAHO ELKS REHAB HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Boise State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SAINT ALPHONSUS MEDICAL CENTER-NAMPA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds BOISE PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT ALPHONSUS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Women's and Children's Alliance ↗
- Who funds St Charles Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds St Luke's Magic Valley Regional Medical Center Ltd ↗
- Who funds IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds TREASURE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAINBOW GOLD INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds NAVAL HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRAFFE LAUGH INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WARHAWK AIR MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PARASPORT SPOKANE ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds St Luke's Regional Medical Center Ltd ↗
- Who funds Idaho FFA Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Pendleton Foundation Trust ↗
- Who funds FCH BUILDING HOPE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Associatio Evergreen Chapter ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER & EDUCATION SERVI DBA FACES OF HOPE ↗
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 · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health Inc · St Luke's Health System Ltd · Four J Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · Hansberger Foundation · Dallas and Alta Harris Family Foundation Inc
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 Kissler Family 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.
- American Welding Society 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.