Idaho · Nonprofit
GEM INNOVATION SCHOOLS OF IDAHO INC
GEM INNOVATION SCHOOLS OF IDAHO INC (Idaho) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,862,609 to it, the largest being CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ($2,489,060). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $463k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Gem Innovation Schools of Idaho Inc does
Mission
The mission of the organization is to provide resources and support to parents who have elected to educate their children at home.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The mission of the organization is: through technology and partnership between parents and educators, gem innovation schools of idaho promotes and supports a modern education system that delivers innovative, relevant, and rigorous education to each child.
$250,000 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $250,000.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $5.1M to $4.1M (−19%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
173% of GEM INNOVATION SCHOOLS OF IDAHO INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Barb Femreite
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $155k → $400k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of GEM INNOVATION SCHOOLS OF IDAHO INC’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.
How concentrated its funding is
GEM INNOVATION SCHOOLS OF IDAHO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund GEM INNOVATION SCHOOLS OF IDAHO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
GEM INNOVATION SCHOOLS OF IDAHO INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Idaho, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $149 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
GEM INNOVATION SCHOOLS OF IDAHO INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GEM INNOVATION SCHOOLS OF IDAHO INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Idaho
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
30% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- Gem Innovation Schools Foundation LLC · disregarded
- Gem Prep Nampa LLC · exempt
- Gem Prep Pocatello LLC · exempt
- Gem Prep Meridian LLC · exempt
- Gem Prep Online LLC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GEM INNOVATION SCHOOLS OF IDAHO INC: 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 GEM INNOVATION SCHOOLS OF IDAHO INC?
- GEM INNOVATION SCHOOLS OF IDAHO INC (Idaho) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,862,609 to it, the largest being CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ($2,489,060). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEM INNOVATION SCHOOLS OF IDAHO INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $2,862,609 in grants to GEM INNOVATION SCHOOLS OF IDAHO INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GEM INNOVATION SCHOOLS OF IDAHO INC?
- CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,489,060 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEM INNOVATION SCHOOLS OF IDAHO INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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