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· 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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2017
15
Grants FY2017
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

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’22
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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$14MHealth$1.0MEducation$319kHuman Services$201kEnvironment$81kArts & Culture$65kYouth Development$41kAnimals$40kOther$0
02FY2017 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $325,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,430,630 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,105,130 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $198k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$15,000
IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN$15,000
ZOO BOISE$15,000
WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE$11,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION$10,500
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$7,500
CANYON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$7,500
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY$7,500
IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC$5,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GIRAFFE LAUGH INC: $15k → 8%WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC: $24k → 8%WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $20k → 8%WARHAWK AIR MUSEUM: $13k → 8%WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $11k → 8%WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $10k → 8%FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER AND EDUCATION SERVICES: $7k → 8%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $8k → 8%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $8k → 8%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $6k → 8%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $6k → 8%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $6k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 15 repeat orgs$375k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
22

Total granted

$1.5M
$375k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+15%

Still filing today

87%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SL
    St Luke's Health Foundation Ltd
    8× · 2017–2024 · $261k · revenue +188%
  • IE
    IDAHO ELKS REHAB HOSPITAL INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $174k · revenue +69%
  • BS
    Boise State University Foundation Inc
    5× · 2017–2021 · $174k · revenue +191%

Funded once

  • BP
    BOISE PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +94%
  • AW
    AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +9%
  • TV
    TREASURE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -24%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
St Luke's Nampa Medical Center Ltd

To improve the health of people in the communities we serve.

Health
2
St Luke's McCall Ltd

To improve the health of people in the communities we serve.

Health
3
Saint Alphonsus Health System Inc

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.

Health
4
Idaho State University Foundation Inc

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.

Education
5
Idaho Law Foundation Inc

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…

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6
Idaho Technology Council Inc

To help technology companies in Idaho start, grow, and thrive.

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7
Bozeman Deaconess Foundation

To support Bozeman Health Services by promoting community participation in and financial support of activities to improve community health and quality of life.

Philanthropy
8
St Luke's Wood River Medical Center Ltd

To improve the health of people in the communities we serve.

Health
9
Idaho Technology Council Foundation

The corporation advances charitable and educational initiatives as an affiliate of the Idaho Technology Council. It promotes digiatl literacy technology education and workforce readiness across Idaho by funding and delivering…

Science & Tech
10
Idaho Health Data Exchange Inc

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.

Health
11
Bonner General Hospital Foundation Inc

The Bonner General Health Foundation is committed to advancing the promise to change and save lives through philanthropy by developing resources and creating awareness that helps expand the trust the community has in Bonner General Health.

Health
12
St Luke's Health System Ltd

To improve the health of people in the communities we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Alphonsus Medical Center-Nampa Health Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/31
Grantees still filing
26/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $14,015,753 · PhilanthropyIDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC+2 more: $32,500 · PhilanthropySt Luke's Health Foundation Ltd: $261,050 · HealthIDAHO ELKS REHAB HOSPITAL INC: $174,000 · HealthSAINT ALPHONSUS MEDICAL CENTER-NAMPA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $152,950 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $114,600 · HealthSAINT ALPHONSUS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INC: $81,716 · HealthSt Charles Foundation Inc: $59,300 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $53,250 · HealthSt Luke's Magic Valley Regional Medical Center Ltd: $36,500 · Health+2 more: $20,750 · HealthBoise State University Foundation Inc: $173,500 · EducationBOISE PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationWENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $15,000 · EducationBOISE RESCUE MISSION: $116,500 · OtherNational Multiple Sclerosis Society Greater Northwest Chapter: $17,500 · OtherBOISE RESCUE MISSION: $15,000 · OtherNAVAL HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $15,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY - BOISE CORPS: $14,640 · OtherWOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $10,000 · OtherDISCOVERY CENTER OF IDAHO: $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · OtherIDAHO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $15,000 · OtherWARHAWK AIR MUSEUM INC: $15,000 · OtherPARASPORT SPOKANE: $11,000 · Other+2 more: $14,500 · OtherWomen's and Children's Alliance: $77,500 · Human ServicesIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $31,500 · Human ServicesGIRAFFE LAUGH INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER & EDUCATION SERVI DBA FACES OF HOPE: $6,500 · Human ServicesIDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $106,150 · EnvironmentCAMP RAINBOW GOLD INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentIdaho FFA Foundation Inc: $9,750 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$14,048,253Health$954,116Education$303,500Other$294,140Human Services$130,500Environment$106,150Youth Development$34,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $14,015,753 over 7y, 14% of budgetSt Luke's Health Foundation Ltd: $261,050 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetIDAHO ELKS REHAB HOSPITAL INC: $174,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetBoise State University Foundation Inc: $173,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSAINT ALPHONSUS MEDICAL CENTER-NAMPA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $152,950 over 5y, 10% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $114,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $106,150 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetBOISE PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetSAINT ALPHONSUS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INC: $81,716 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's and Children's Alliance: $77,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSt Charles Foundation Inc: $59,300 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $53,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSt Luke's Magic Valley Regional Medical Center Ltd: $36,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $31,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP RAINBOW GOLD INC: $25,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetTREASURE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRAFFE LAUGH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWARHAWK AIR MUSEUM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNAVAL HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetPARASPORT SPOKANE: $11,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $10,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Luke's Regional Medical Center Ltd: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIdaho FFA Foundation Inc: $9,750 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPendleton Foundation Trust: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFCH BUILDING HOPE PROJECT INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAmyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Associatio Evergreen Chapter: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER & EDUCATION SERVI DBA FACES OF HOPE: $6,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Idaho Community Found…Idaho Power Foundatio…Lamb Weston Charitabl…Laura Moore Cunningha…Simplot Company Found…Blue Cross of Idaho F…St Luke's Health Syst…Four J FoundationFirst Interstate Banc…The Oregon Community …Hansberger FoundationDallas and Alta Harri…
Idaho Community Foundation IncID36.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Kissler Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kissler Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • American Welding Society Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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