· Private foundation
WEN Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Campfire Foundation | $2,500 |
| The Cabin | $2,000 |
| National Outdoor Leadership | $1,750 |
| Teton Valley Ranch Education Founda | $1,000 |
| Holderness School | $1,000 |
| Sun Valley Music Festival | $1,000 |
| Learning Lab | $1,000 |
| Scenic Hudson | $1,000 |
| Sun Valley Writer's Conf | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Interfaith Sanctuary | $500 |
| Idaho Shakespeare Festival | $500 |
| Wassmuth Center | $500 |
| Blaine County Rec District | $500 |
| The Wilderness Land Trust | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 74% of your 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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- NONATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +8%
- SHScenic Hudson Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +86%
- HSHOLDERNESS SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $500
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.
From our campus to the wilderness our mission is to inspire students to think critically engage confidently embrace challenges and lead impactful purposeful lives. Our primary program service is a PK-12th grade day boarding school in Sun…
Public Education.
Our mission is to protect, connect, and enhance wildlife habitat, working lands, and community spaces in southeast idaho, now and for future generations.
To keep Idaho's hiking trails open for all.
The Island School provides a flexible learning environment where each child is known and celebrated.
Public education (local education agency) - sage international school engages students within an inclusive ib learning community, challenging all members to take risks and contribute locally and globally through open-minded inquiry.
A nonprofit organization rooted in the wood river valley, idaho basecamp helps develop resilience, confidence, and connection in youth through adventure, exploration, and intentional play in the outdoors.
To create oppurtunites for conservation of natural, scenic, historic, recreational and agricultural values of southwestern idaho's open spaces through collabarative efforts for current and future generations. the land trust indentifies…
The primary goal is to help children & adults develop a commitment to lifelong learning & environmental and community stewardship through hands-on learning experiences combining science, technology, & the arts at islandwood's 255-acre…
Public Education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Outdoor Leadership School and the most unlike its peers is The Campfire Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 20 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 The Campfire Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLDERNESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LEARNING LAB INC ↗
- Who funds ONE STONE INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH SANCTUARY HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds Idaho Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds BOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER 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: Gladys and Roland Harriman Foundation · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Hansberger Foundation · Langan Barber Foundation · Harad Family Foundation · The Julius C Jeker Foundation Inc · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Joy & Thomas Kealey Foundation · Sylvan Creek Foundation Inc · Edwin E Perkins Foundation Xxxxx0003
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 WEN 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.
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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