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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 FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Youth Development$140kFood & Nutrition$122kArts & Culture$81kEnvironment$75kHealth$50kHuman Services$36kEducation$30kEmployment$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $152k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DISCOVERY CENTER OF IDAHO$16,761
SPARK CENTRAL$15,000
CRFMC$15,000
BOTANIC GARDEN MISSOULA$15,000
LEARNING LAB INC$15,000
ACADEMY OF CHILDREN'S THEATRE$15,000
MONTANA NATURAL HISTORY CENTER$15,000
IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDENS$15,000
LIFE'S KITCHEN$15,000
IDAHO WOMEN FOR EDUCATION$15,000
THE PEREGRINE FUND$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $10k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
ID
MT
NY
OR
WY
CO
VA
MD
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$224k · 18 repeat orgs$447k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
22

Total granted

$224k
$312k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+14%

Still filing today

33%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionEnvironmentPublic BenefitEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • TD
    THE DISCOVERY CENTER OF IDAHO INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $51k · revenue +176%
  • TP
    THE PEREGRINE FUND INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +39%
  • JC
    JACKSON CUPBOARD
    2× · 2021–2022 · $7k · revenue +165%

Funded once

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ADA CO ID
    one grant, 2023 · $31k · revenue +14%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SW ID INC
    one grant, 2023 · $31k · revenue +1%
  • BS
    BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-MOUNTAIN WEST COUNCIL INC 106graduated
    one grant, 2023 · $31k · revenue ×13

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
2
Boise Farmers Market Inc

The Boise Farmers Market supports a regenerative, healthy food and agricultural system by operating a vibrant marketplace featuring locally grown and crafted products.

Community Improvement
3
Idaho Technology Council Inc

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

4
Rainier Valley Food Bank

Our mission is to nourish with good food, empower with knowledge, and serve with compassion.

Unclassified
5
Actuate Boise Inc

Trailhead provides a range of programming offerings to trailhead members and the broader boise community. the objective is to help entrepreneurs develop the skills and make connections that will help increase the likelihood their…

Community Improvement
6
Impact Montana Incorporated

Help service members veterans first responders and their families define their purpose connect with health and community solutions and strive for what they value.

Public Benefit
7
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
8
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
9
Underdogs Boise
Arts & Culture
10
Brave Hearts Idaho
Arts & Culture
11
Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment
12
Idaho Conservation League Inc

Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Idaho Botanical Garden Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Peregrine Fund Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyVeteran Support ServicesYouth Development CentersLand Conservation Organizat…Elementary Literacy TutoringUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Education Equity LeadershipAnimal Rescue and AdoptionCommunity Arts OrganizationsFood Pantries & Assistance
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%8%<5yr15%12%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr15%27%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr17%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%3%<5yr15%8%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr15%29%20–35yr11%33%35–55yr17%13%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
18%
1,676/9,390

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.

04the grantee network

26 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
12/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SW ID INC — $31,250 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SW ID INCBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-MOUNTAIN WEST COUNCIL INC 106 — $31,250 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-MOUNTAIN WEST COUNCIL INC 106GIRL SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $31,250 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF AMERICATHE PEREGRINE FUND INC — $30,000 · OtherTHE PEREGRINE FUND INCIDAHO CRISIS & SUICIDE HOTLINE — $27,083 · OtherIDAHO CRISIS & SUICIDE HOTLINETHE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $22,917 · OtherTHE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INCCRFMC — $15,000 · OtherLEARNING LAB INC — $15,000 · OtherBOTANIC GARDEN MISSOULA — $15,000 · OtherIDAHO WOMEN FOR EDUCATION INC — $15,000 · Other+24 more — $186,920 · Other+24 moreTHE DISCOVERY CENTER OF IDAHO INC — $51,264 · Arts & CultureTHE DISCOVERY…Spark Central — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSpark CentralAcademy of Childrens Theatre — $15,000 · Arts & CultureAcademy of Ch…IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE — $31,000 · Food & NutritionMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC — $7,000 · Food & NutritionFLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC — $7,000 · Food & NutritionIDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $15,000 · EnvironmentMONTANA NATURAL HISTORY CENTER — $15,000 · EnvironmentTeam River Runner Incorporated — $9,615 · EnvironmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ADA CO ID — $31,250 · Youth DevelopmentNEWBY-GINNINGS OF NORTH IDAHO INC — $9,615 · Public BenefitBACKCOUNTRY VETERANS INC — $9,615 · Public BenefitSALMON FOR SOLDIERS — $9,615 · Public BenefitLIFES KITCHEN INC — $15,000 · EducationHIRE HEROES USA INC — $9,615 · Education
Other$420,670Arts & Culture$81,264Food & Nutrition$45,000Environment$39,615Youth Development$31,250Public Benefit$28,845Education$24,615

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE DISCOVERY CENTER OF IDAHO INC — $51,264 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ADA CO ID — $31,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SW ID INC — $31,250 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-MOUNTAIN WEST COUNCIL INC 106 — $31,250 over 1y, 2.3% 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 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 budgetLEARNING LAB INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAcademy of Childrens Theatre — $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTeam River Runner Incorporated — $9,615 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEWBY-GINNINGS OF NORTH IDAHO INC — $9,615 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBACKCOUNTRY VETERANS INC — $9,615 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetWord of Honor Fund — $9,615 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSALMON FOR SOLDIERS — $9,615 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetSERVICE PEACE WARRIORS — $9,615 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetHIRE HEROES USA INC — $9,615 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetButte Emergency Food Bank — $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOISE BICYCLE PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

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

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 Terteling Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 19%
  • Team River Runner Incorporated19% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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