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United Way of South Central Idaho Inc

United Way mobilizes South Central Idaho communities into action so that everyone can thrive.From strengthening community resilience to advancing health, youth opportunity, and financial security, we're working towards a future where every person can reach their full potential.Every day, our communities show that when people unite to…

$260k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Human Services$241kPhilanthropy$164kRecreation & Sports$163kYouth Development$161kEducation$144kHealth$85kArts & Culture$57kFood & Nutrition$48kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $64,433, the rows itemized in this filing. The $259,877 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $195,444 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$42,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
E Street Community Center$42,000
Dollywood Foundation$22,433
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $426k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%E-STREET COMMUNITY CENTER AKA YMCA OF THE MAGIC VALLEY: $201k → 11%E-STREET COMMUNITY CENTER: $121k → 11%E Street Community Center: $42k → 11%E-STREET COMMUNITY CENTER AKA YMCA OF THE MAGIC VALLEY: $30k → 11%MUSTARD SEED FOOD PANTRY: $23k → 11%MUSTARD SEED FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$822k · 8 repeat orgs$353k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
17

Total granted

$822k
$330k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+1%

Still filing today

63%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • CM
    CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF THE MAGIC VALLEY INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $35k · revenue +92%
  • MS
    MUSTARD SEED MINISTRIES INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $33k · revenue +31%
  • FH
    Family Health Services Corporation
    2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $83k
  • JF
    Jae Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +80%
  • CC
    CAMAS COUNTY SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
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
Island Park Elementary Charter School Inc

Public Education.

Education
2
Taylors Crossing Public Charter School

Public Education.

Education
3
Children's Museum of Idaho Inc

Inspire and nurture future explorers, innovators, and critical thinkers through interactive play in a safe, engaging environment with hands-on exhibits and programs designed specifically for children ages two to eight years old.

Arts & Culture
4
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
5
Missoula Community Foundation

To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits

Community Improvement
6
Idaho Medical Association Foundation Inc
Health
7
Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health Inc
Health
8
Idaho Falls Fraternal Order of Police Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
9
Idaho Science & Technology Charter

Public Education.

Education
10
Pocatello Community Charter School

Public Education.

Education
11
Idaho Falls Sd 91 Educational Foundation

To enhance the quality of public education by genreating and allocating resources. promotes community awareness of district's needs and goal by supporting opportunities that anhance the quality of education.

Unclassified
12
The Village Charter School

Public Education.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is College of Southern Idaho Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Twin Falls Area Chamber of Commerce. 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 27 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

A CHANCE FOR CHANGE: $160,000 · OtherA CHANCE FOR CHANGEIndividual grant recipient: $82,550 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSUCCESS LEARNING CENTER: $70,000 · OtherSUCCESS LEARNING CENTERJEROME JT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 261: $65,800 · OtherJEROME JT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 261VALLEY HOUSING COALITION INC: $40,000 · OtherVALLEY HOUSING COALITION INCCAMAS COUNTY SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · OtherTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $22,433 · OtherLINCOLN COUNTY: $20,000 · Other+8 more: $100,000 · Other+8 moreE Street Community Center: $393,788 · Human ServicesE Street Community CenterMUSTARD SEED MINISTRIES INC: $32,500 · Human ServicesMUSTARD SEED MINISTRIES INCJae Foundation Inc: $50,000 · PhilanthropyJae Founda…IDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyIDAHO COMM…THE ALBERTSONS COMPANIES FOUNDATION: $9,243 · PhilanthropyTHE ALBERT…CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF THE MAGIC VALLEY INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureFamily Health Services Corporation: $25,000 · HealthTWIN FALLS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $15,000 · Community ImprovementTWIN FALLS OPTIMIST FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Community ImprovementRISE Charter School Inc: $10,000 · EducationDIMENSIONS EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Education
Other$590,783Human Services$426,288Philanthropy$109,243Arts & Culture$35,000Health$25,000Community Improvement$21,000Education$17,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetE Street Community Center: $393,788 over 4y, 31% of budgetJae Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetIDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVALLEY HOUSING COALITION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCHILDRENS MUSEUM OF THE MAGIC VALLEY INC: $35,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetMUSTARD SEED MINISTRIES INC: $32,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetFamily Health Services Corporation: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $22,433 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT 411 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTWIN FALLS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SOUTHERN IDAHO FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTWIN FALLS ZOOLOGICAL CENTER: $14,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetRISE Charter School Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ALBERTSONS COMPANIES FOUNDATION: $9,243 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIMENSIONS EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

St Luke's Health Syst…Idaho Community Found…Twin Falls County Hea…Magic Valley Festival…First Federal Foundat…St Luke's Magic Valle…Blue Cross of Idaho F…Lamb Weston Charitabl…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
St Luke's Health System LtdID24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Luke's Health System Ltd · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Twin Falls County Health Initiatives Trustltd · Magic Valley Festival of Giving Inc · First Federal Foundation Inc · St Luke's Magic Valley Regional Medical Center Ltd · Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health Inc · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 United Way of South Central Idaho Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of South Central Idaho Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s 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 · 0–40%
    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 United Way of South Central Idaho 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 27 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $144k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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