· Private foundation
The Robert I Wishnick Foundation Dba the William Wishnick Foundation
Its FY2023 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: 63% of THE ROBERT I WISHNICK FOUNDATION DBA THE WILLIAM WISHNICK FOUNDATION’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 · FY2023
- Under $10k28 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FORGOTTEN DOG FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| ADOPT A NATIVE AMERICAN ELDER | $25,000 |
| RATHDRUM FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| PACIFIC NORTHWEST ANIMAL WELFARE PR | $20,000 |
| MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT | $20,000 |
| WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CHABAD OF PUTNAM COUNTY | $10,000 |
| JDRF | $10,000 |
| AIRMID INSTITUTE | $8,000 |
| PANHANDLE COMM RADIO KRFY | $7,500 |
| 4 PAWS PALACE SANCTUARY | $6,000 |
| PANIDA THEATRE | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF IDAHO AVALANCHE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2023, 36 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k 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
- TFTHE FORGOTTEN DOG FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $270k · revenue +99%
- MCMUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT7× · 2017–2023 · $110k · revenue +157%
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D5× · 2018–2023 · $70k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- TCTHE COEUR GROUP INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -18% · 37% of their budget
- NDNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -4%
- RWRunning W Therapeutic Riding Centerone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -22%
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.
Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…
To preserve and protect, for public benefit, open space lands and unique natural, scenic settings throughout the state of idaho utilizing various flexible conservation methods.
The mission of the Idaho Humane Society (IHS) is to advocate for the welfare and responsible care of animals, protect them from neglect and cruelty, and promote humane education, awareness and compassion for all living creatures.
"With open hearts and expertise, we serve the seriously ill and those touched by loss." Our grief and loss program is provided to patients' loved ones, but is also available to other members of our community. Palliative services are…
The Idaho Wildlife Federation (IWF) promotes the conservation of Idaho's wildlife heritage and legacy of sporting opportunities for the current and future generations.
Our mission is to work with landowners and communities to conserve the lands we love, now and forever, and to enrich connections to the natural world.
Meridian Canine Rescue's mission is to save animals' lives through storytelling and education. We focus primarily on individual dogs and their unique behaviors as we provide resources to the public, facilitate adoptions, and train…
Our mission is to protect, connect, and enhance wildlife habitat, working lands, and community spaces in southeast idaho, now and for future generations.
This member-supported organization protects and restores iowa's land, water and wildlife for future generations. priorities include permanent land protection, promotion of improved land management and bringing new conservation…
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
Protect And Sustain Idaho's Fishing, Hunting And Wildlife Heritage For Present And Future Generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Ability Center and the most unlike its peers is Viking Booster Club. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 123 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 THE FORGOTTEN DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds Underground Kindness Inc ↗
- Who funds SANDPOINT NORDIC CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds REBEL VENTURES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN VALOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Festival at Sandpoint Inc ↗
- Who funds LAMBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds THE COEUR GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds The Thacher School Inc ↗
- Who funds Sandpoint Area Seniors Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIGENOUS LENSES ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Shelter Inc dba Better Together Animal Alliance ↗
- Who funds SADDLE OF LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds SEED SAVERS EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds PANHANDLE COMMUNITY RADIO 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: Equinox Foundation Inc · Innovia Foundation · Community Assistance League Inc · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · The Avista Foundation · The Van Vleet Foundation · Hymowitz Family Foundation · The Confidence Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company 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 Robert I Wishnick Foundation Dba the William Wishnick 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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