· Private foundation
Tomlinson 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GONZAGA | $10,000 |
| BOISE PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| ADA COUNTY SHERIFF EMPLOYEES ASSOC | $3,000 |
| RAYS FOR RARE | $2,500 |
| DAE LOU FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| IEA CHILDRENS FUND | $2,500 |
| IDAHO DIAPER BANK | $2,500 |
| ST LUKES CHILDRENS CANCER CENTER | $1,250 |
| ST LUKES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $1,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +99% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +42%- IDIDAHO DIAPER BANK INC5× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +99%
- SLSt Luke's Health Foundation Ltd2× · 2019–2020 · $12k · revenue +197%
Funded once
- LSLEWIS-CLARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -28%
- AAALS ASSOCIATION - AZ CHAPTERone grant, 2024 · $3k
- ICIDAHO CAPED FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -1%
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.
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.
The mission of the Foundation is to stimulate voluntary private support from alumni, parents, friends, corporations, foundations, and others for the benefit of the University and its students.
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…
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.
To Promote Premier Leadership, Personal Growth and Career Success of Idaho FFA Members and Agricultural Education Students by Providing Strategic Financial Resources for the Idaho FFA Association
The mission of the University of Idaho Foundation, Inc. is to inspire, manage, and distribute private support to enhance the excellence of the University of Idaho.
To support the episcopal church in idaho and its ministries.
The organization's mission is to improve early care and education for young children.
The idaho community foundation strengthens communities through philanthropy, elevating nonprofit impact, and connecting idahoans to create a place where everyone can contribute to thriving communities.
North idaho college foundation solicits, accepts, and stewards private support to enhance educational excellence and student success at north idaho college. the foundation provides strategic resources for student scholarships, program…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds IDAHO DIAPER BANK INC ↗
- Who funds St Luke's Health Foundation Ltd ↗
- Who funds BASQUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IEA CHILDRENS FUND ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds LEWIS-CLARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADA COUNTY SHERIFF EMPLOYEES ASSN ↗
- Who funds Corwyns Cause Inc ↗
- Who funds IDAHO CAPED FOUNDATION 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tomlinson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tomlinson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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