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Connections Credit Union

Connections Credit Union (Idaho) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $85,128 to it, the largest being GOWEST FOUNDATION ($85,128). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$15M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$85k
Net assets
$19M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Connections Credit Union does

Mission

Promoting the financial well being of our members by providing loans and savings services.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. dividends on member deposits

    $3,453,281 spent
    32% of program spending
  2. salaries and benefits

    $5,907,954 spent
    55% of program spending
  3. office expenses

    $1,242,916 spent
    12% of program spending
  4. other expenses

    $142,480 spent
    1% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,746,631.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.0M) Expenses 100 ($6.6M) Net assets 100 ($13M)2018 Revenue 117 ($8.2M) Expenses 113 ($7.4M) Net assets 106 ($13M)2019 Revenue 135 ($9.5M) Expenses 126 ($8.3M) Net assets 115 ($15M)2020 Revenue 143 ($10M) Expenses 140 ($9.3M) Net assets 122 ($15M)2021 Revenue 143 ($10M) Expenses 138 ($9.1M) Net assets 129 ($16M)2022 Revenue 164 ($12M) Expenses 154 ($10M) Net assets 140 ($18M)2023 Revenue 202 ($14M) Expenses 192 ($13M) Net assets 147 ($19M)2024 Revenue 212 ($15M) Expenses 215 ($14M) Net assets 154 ($19M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (212)Expenses (215)Net assets (154)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $180M to $217M (+21%).

$155M
$170M
$180M
$217M
$238M
$250M
$246M
$255M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$429k
’17
$774k
’18
$1.2M
’19
$809k
’20
$943k
’21
$1.4M
’22
$1.5M
’23
$725k
’24
12
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed1615151818161514
Joined·+4+0+4+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·5010221
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $79k.

Funder
'20
'21
total
Gowest Foundationunclassified
$85k
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of Connections Credit Union’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

Connections Credit Union draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Idaho, across 1 state in all.

WA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
Idaho out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Government funding Connections Credit Union receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $900k on record.

Federal$900k
grants $900kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of the Treasury$900k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Connections Credit Union

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In Idaho

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

9
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Connections Credit Union: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Connections Credit Union?
Connections Credit Union (Idaho) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $85,128 to it, the largest being GOWEST FOUNDATION ($85,128). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Connections Credit Union have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $85,128 in grants to Connections Credit Union, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Connections Credit Union?
GOWEST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $85,128 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Connections Credit Union find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Idaho. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing