Idaho · Private foundation
The Nalen Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $86k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $18,150
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 40
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $655k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations The Nalen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 19 | $86k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $81k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $93k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $71k | 72% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $165k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Hotchkiss School | $50,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Warriors & Quiet Waters Foundation Inc | $48,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Farwise Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Montana Land Reliance | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Sun Valley Summer Symphony Inc | $19,900 | 3 | 0% |
| GMP Charities Inc | $17,850 | 3 | 10% |
| Sun Valley Film Festival Inc | $12,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Wood River Trails Coalition Inc | $11,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Gallatin Valley Land Trust | $10,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Advocates for Survivors of Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($134k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Nalen 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: Spur Community Foundation Inc · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Nancy Eccles and Homer M Hayward Family Foundation · Boswell Family Foundation · Heinz Family Foundation · The Springcreek Foundation · The Pesky Family Foundation Inc · The Shafran Family Foundation · Thrasher Koffey Foundation · Sahm Family Foundation · Larsen Fund · Sangham Foundation
How this is measured
About The Nalen Foundation
- How much does The Nalen Foundation give?
- The Nalen Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $85,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 40 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Nalen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Environment (18%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are The Nalen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Hotchkiss School ($50k), Warriors & Quiet Waters Foundation Inc ($48k), Farwise Inc ($25k).
- Does The Nalen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Nalen 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 Nalen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Spur Community Foundation Inc, Idaho Community Foundation Inc, Nancy Eccles and Homer M Hayward Family Foundation.
- Where is The Nalen Foundation based?
- The Nalen Foundation is based in ID.
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