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The Terteling Foundation Inc

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.

$157k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
87%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$16,761
Organizations funded a year
3 to 21
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 87% of the organizations The Terteling Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 92% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentAnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$157k82%
FY202415$137k87%
FY20236$137k67%
FY202221$141k14%
FY202119$85k89%
FY20203$15kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Youth Development$140kFood & Nutrition$122kArts & Culture$81kEnvironment$75kHealth$50kHuman Services$36kEducation$30kEmployment$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MT
NY
OR
WY
CO
VA
MD
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 30 grantees
All grantees of The Terteling Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Discovery Center of Idaho Inc$51,26461%
Boy Scouts of America-Mountain West Council Inc 106$31,25012%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Sw Id Inc$31,25014%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Ada Co Id$31,25011%
Idaho Foodbank Warehouse$31,00020%
The Peregrine Fund Inc$30,00060%
The Mental Health Association of New York City Inc$22,91710%
Academy of Childrens Theatre$15,00012%
Learning Lab Inc$15,00011%
Botanic Garden Missoula$15,0001n/a
Idaho Women for Education Inc$15,0001n/a
Spark Central$15,0001n/a
Lifes Kitchen Inc$15,00011%
Idaho Botanical Garden Inc$15,00010%
Montana Natural History Center$15,00011%
Service Peace Warriors$9,61515%
Team River Runner Incorporated$9,61511%
Salmon for Soldiers$9,61516%
Guardian Paws Service Dogs Inc$9,6151n/a
Word of Honor Fund$9,61512%
Hire Heroes USA Inc$9,61510%
Backcountry Veterans Inc$9,61513%
Newby-Ginnings of North Idaho Inc$9,61512%
Butte Emergency Food Bank$7,00020%
Montana Food Bank Network Inc$7,00020%
Flathead Food Bank Inc$7,00020%
Jackson Cupboard$7,0002n/a
Regional Council for Christian Ministry Inc$7,0002n/a
Boise Bicycle Project Inc$5,00011%
Community Connections$3,5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($202k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Terteling Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Discovery Center of Idaho Inc: $51,264 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBoy Scouts of America-Mountain West Council Inc 106: $31,250 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Sw Id Inc: $31,250 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Ada Co Id: $31,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetIdaho Foodbank Warehouse: $31,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Peregrine Fund Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Mental Health Association of New York City Inc: $22,917 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAcademy of Childrens Theatre: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLearning Lab Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLifes Kitchen Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetIdaho Botanical Garden Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMontana Natural History Center: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetService Peace Warriors: $9,615 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTeam River Runner Incorporated: $9,615 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSalmon for Soldiers: $9,615 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetWord of Honor Fund: $9,615 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHire Heroes USA Inc: $9,615 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBackcountry Veterans Inc: $9,615 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNewby-Ginnings of North Idaho Inc: $9,615 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetButte Emergency Food Bank: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMontana Food Bank Network Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFlathead Food Bank Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoise Bicycle Project Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

First Interstate BancSystem Foundation IncMT21.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · The Bews Foundation · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · The Julius C Jeker Foundation Inc · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · St Luke's Health System Ltd · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Idaho Womens Charitable Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation

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.

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About The Terteling Foundation Inc

How much does The Terteling Foundation Inc give?
The Terteling Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $156,761 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Terteling Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (21%), Food & Nutrition (18%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are The Terteling Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Discovery Center of Idaho Inc ($51k), Boy Scouts of America-Mountain West Council Inc 106 ($31k), Big Brothers Big Sisters of Sw Id Inc ($31k).
Does The Terteling Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 87% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Terteling Foundation Inc 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 Terteling Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Idaho Community Foundation Inc, The Bews Foundation.
Where is The Terteling Foundation Inc based?
The Terteling Foundation Inc is based in ID.

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 49 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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