· Private foundation
The Thomas M and Carol F Smith Family Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GORONGOSA NATIONAL PARK MOZAMBIQUE | $5,500 |
| IDAHO YOUTH RANCH | $5,000 |
| RICHARD SABALA FOUNDATION | $2,081 |
| LEARNING LAB | $1,500 |
| BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| THE CABIN | $805 |
| Individual grant recipient | $271 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS IDAHO | $250 |
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 (FY17–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
23 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- RSRICHARD SABALA FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +32%
- WAWomen's and Children's Alliance7× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +26%
- LLLEARNING LAB INC5× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- RCROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF BOISEone grant, 2017 · $1k
- PLPAYETTE LAND TRUST INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue ×41
- SISAGE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BOISEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +133%
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.
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.
The Idaho Wildlife Federation (IWF) promotes the conservation of Idaho's wildlife heritage and legacy of sporting opportunities for the current and future generations.
The idaho education association advocates for the professional and personal well-being of its members and the vision of excellence in the public education.
The fozb is a membership organization that supports zoo boise in the areas of animal acquisition, capital improvement projects, fundraising activities, volunteer opportunities, and educational programs. the goals of each of these…
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 Idaho Law Foundation maintains a continuing legal education program and administers grants to 1) educate the public, 2) provide legal services to the state's indigent, 3) develop programs to improve the administration of justice and…
To help technology companies in Idaho start, grow, and thrive.
Public Education.
Idaho legal aid services inc is a statewide nonprofit law firm dedicated to providing equal access for low-income people through quality advocacy and education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Idaho Botanical Garden Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bristol-Myers Squibb 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.
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 47 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 20% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 50 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 IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds BISHOP KELLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RICHARD SABALA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Women's and Children's Alliance ↗
- Who funds LEARNING LAB INC ↗
- Who funds Idaho Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Bronco Athletic Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO ↗
- Who funds IDAHO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds PAYETTE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SAGE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BOISE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ADVOCATE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BOISE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Leilani Farm Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds SELWAY-BITTERROOT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Boise State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of Idaho Public Television Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS IDAHO 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 · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · St Luke's Health System Ltd · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Harad Family Foundation · The Julius C Jeker Foundation Inc · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Sylvan Creek Foundation Inc · The Bews Foundation · Percival Stern 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 Thomas M and Carol F Smith Family 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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