· Private foundation
The Step Forward Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA | $250,000 |
| COLLEGE OF WESTERN IDAHO | $50,000 |
| LEARNING LAB | $22,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $17,219 |
| IDAHO FOODBANK | $10,000 |
| BOISE RESCUE MISSION | $7,500 |
| BRONCO ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| TERRY REILLY HEALTH SERVICES | $3,000 |
| BISHOP KELLY HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| ST AL'S FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| FEED THE GAP INC | $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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 — 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
- TYTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO4× · 2019–2022 · $1.5M · revenue +27%
- LLLEARNING LAB INC8× · 2018–2025 · $90k · revenue +39%
- IFIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE6× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- TCThe College of Idaho Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue +76%
- FOFACES OF HOPEone grant, 2019 · $6k
- BSBOISE STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Provide traing that assists school psych
Inspire and nurture future explorers, innovators, and critical thinkers through interactive play in a safe, engaging environment with hands-on exhibits and programs designed specifically for children ages two to eight years old.
To help technology companies in Idaho start, grow, and thrive.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home Society of Idaho Inc and the most unlike its peers is First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 40 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 YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO ↗
- Who funds LEARNING LAB INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH SANCTUARY HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Bronco Athletic Association Inc ↗
- Who funds The College of Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds IDAHO WOMENS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEED THE GAP INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CANYON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOGUS BASIN SPORT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Boise Urban Garden School ↗
- Who funds IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds BASQUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities Of Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds LEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds First Interstate BancSystem 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 · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · The Bews Foundation · The Julius C Jeker Foundation Inc · St Luke's Health System Ltd · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Hansberger Foundation · Four J Foundation · Harad Family 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 Step Forward Trust 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.