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The Willard Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Willard Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$66k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$183kAnimals$26kEducation$21kFood & Nutrition$15kReligion$3kHealth$3kEmployment$2kHuman Services$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IDAHO FALLS ARTS COUNCIL$15,000
CIVIC CENTER PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC$12,500
Individual grant recipient$10,600
IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$5,000
SNAKE RIVER ANIMAL SHELTER$5,000
STRING ACADEMY OF IDAHO FALLS$5,000
THE ART MUSEUM$4,000
KIND CONSERVATORY$2,500
MUSEUM OF IDAHO$2,000
IDAHO FALLS MUSIC CLUB$1,500
EAST IDAHO MUSIC TEACHER' ASSOCIATION$1,000
IDAHO PUBLIC TELEVISION$1,000
BRIGHT STAR PRODUCTION CORP$500
FIRTH HIGH SCHOOL$200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 19% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE ART MUSEUM: $4k → 8%CIVIC CENTER PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $13k → 11%IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%MUSICIANS WEST: $6k → 14%Concert for Ukraine: $1k → 17%BRIGHT STAR PRODUCTION CORP: $5k → 16%Alzheimer's Association: $1k → 14%THE ART MUSEUM: $3k → 8%STRING ACADEMY OF IDAHO FALLS: $5k → 11%Idaho State University Foundation: $5k → 13%Musicians West Inc: $5k → 14%Alzheimer's Association: $1k → 14%IDAHO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $2k → 8%Idaho Falls Arts Council: $25k → 11%The Idaho International Choral Fest: $5k → 13%Musicians West: $5k → 14%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%Idaho Public Television: $2k → 8%IDAHO FALLS ARTS COUNCIL: $17k → 11%IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $4k → 13%KIND CONSERVATORY: $3k → 14%Idaho Public Television: $2k → 8%Idaho Falls Arts Council: $16k → 11%Idaho State University Foundation: $4k → 13%Musicians West Inc: $2k → 14%Idaho Public Television: $2k → 8%Idaho Falls Arts Council: $15k → 11%Idaho State University Foundation: $3k → 13%IDAHO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $1k → 8%IDAHO FALLS ARTS COUNCIL: $15k → 11%Idaho Falls Symphony: $13k → 11%Idaho Falls Symphony: $11k → 11%Community Food Basket-Idaho Falls: $11k → 11%IDAHO FALLS SYMPHONY: $11k → 11%Idaho Falls Symphony: $10k → 11%IDAHO FALLS SYMPHONY: $10k → 11%Snake River Animal Shelter: $7k → 11%Snake River Animal Shelter: $5k → 11%SNAKE RIVER ANIMAL SHELTER: $5k → 11%SNAKE RIVER ANIMAL SHELTER: $5k → 11%Snake River Animal Shelter: $4k → 11%Community Food Basket Idaho Falls: $4k → 11%Museum of Idaho: $3k → 11%MUSEUM OF IDAHO: $2k → 11%Idaho Falls Unitarian Church: $2k → 11%Development Workshop Inc: $2k → 11%The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho: $2k → 11%EAST IDAHO MUSIC TEACHER' ASSOCIATION: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$269k · 15 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
9

Total granted

$269k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+16%

Still filing today

40%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureAnimalsEducationEmploymentHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • IF
    IDAHO FALLS ARTS COUNCIL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $88k · revenue +56%
  • SR
    SNAKE RIVER ANIMAL SHELTER INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $26k · revenue +83%
  • IS
    Idaho State University Foundation Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • PLAY IT FORWARD
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +16%
  • TI
    The Idaho International Choral Fest
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • DW
    DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP INC
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -24%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
East Idaho Aquarium Corporation
Animals
2
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
3
Boise Little Theater

Performing arts

Arts & Culture
4
Indigenous Idaho Alliance Inc
Civil Rights
5
Idaho Wildlife Federation

The Idaho Wildlife Federation (IWF) promotes the conservation of Idaho's wildlife heritage and legacy of sporting opportunities for the current and future generations.

Animals
6
Idaho Medical Association Foundation Inc
Health
7
Idaho Educational Services for the Deaf and the Blind Foundation Inc

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.

Unclassified
8
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
9
Timpanogos Arts Foundation

The mission of the timpanogos arts foundation is to educate, enrich, and inspire by provising leadership and encoragement for artistic and cultural excellence, which enhances the quality of life for the people of american fork and…

Arts & Culture
10
Esther Simplot Performing Arts Academy
Arts & Culture
11
Cedar City Music Arts Association

Music & arts performances

Arts & Culture
12
Boundary County Historical Society Inc

Museum

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Idaho Falls Arts Council; the most unlike its peers is Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $54,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMUSICIANS WEST INC: $18,000 · OtherMUSICIANS WEST INCREGIONAL COUNCIL FOR CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $15,000 · OtherREGIONAL COUNCIL FOR CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INCIDAHO FALLS MUSIC CLUB INC: $9,500 · OtherIDAHO FALLS MUSIC CLUB INCIdaho Public Television: $8,500 · OtherIdaho Public TelevisionMUSEUM OF IDAHO: $8,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF IDAHOTHE ART MUSEUM: $7,000 · OtherBRIGHT STAR PRODUCTION CORP: $5,500 · OtherThe Idaho International Choral Fest: $5,000 · Other+9 more: $12,170 · Other+9 moreIDAHO FALLS ARTS COUNCIL: $88,250 · Arts & CultureIDAHO FALLS ARTS COUNCILCIVIC CENTER PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureCIVIC CENTER PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION IN…PLAY IT FORWARD: $6,000 · Arts & CultureSTRING ACADEMY OF IDAHO FALLS: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $4,500 · Arts & CultureSNAKE RIVER ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $25,600 · AnimalsSNAKE RIV…Idaho State University Foundation Inc: $20,400 · EducationALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 · HealthDEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP INC: $2,000 · Employment
Other$143,270Arts & Culture$116,250Animals$25,600Education$20,400Health$3,000Employment$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIDAHO FALLS ARTS COUNCIL: $88,250 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetSNAKE RIVER ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $25,600 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetIdaho State University Foundation Inc: $20,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCIVIC CENTER PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetMUSEUM OF IDAHO: $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPLAY IT FORWARD: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIND CONSERVATORY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetDEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART MUSEUM OF EASTERN IDAHO: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEASTERN IDAHO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds IDAHO FALLS ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds SNAKE RIVER ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Idaho State University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CIVIC CENTER PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF IDAHO ↗
  • Who funds PLAY IT FORWARD ↗
  • Who funds STRING ACADEMY OF IDAHO FALLS ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KIND CONSERVATORY INC ↗
  • Who funds DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP INC ↗
  • Who funds ART MUSEUM OF EASTERN IDAHO ↗
  • Who funds EASTERN IDAHO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗

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.

Anne Staton Voilleque…Idaho Community Found…Chc FoundationBattelle Memorial Ins…Laura Moore Cunningha…Raymond James Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Anne Staton Voilleque Charitable FoundationDE22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Anne Staton Voilleque Charitable Foundation · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Chc Foundation · Battelle Memorial Institute · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Willard Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Willard Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Play It Forward: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Willard Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 28 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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