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Idaho State University Foundation Inc

Idaho State University Foundation Inc (Idaho) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,657,444 to it, the largest being KASISKA FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,357,294). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$24M
Funders on record
68
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
$141M
39/68 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Idaho State University Foundation Inc does

Mission

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.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Idaho State University Foundation, Inc. (the Foundation) was formed in March 1967. The Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation incorporated in accordance with the laws of the State of Idaho and is managed by a volunteer Board of Directors. Under the Idaho State Board of Education's administrative rules the Foundation must be independent of, and cannot be controlled by, Idaho State University (the University). Operating and services agreements between the Foundation and the University define the relationship between the two entities in accordance with the State Board of Education's rules. The mission of the Foundation is accomplished by focusing on two primary service areas. (Continued on Schedule O)Academic, development and program support:The Foundation supports private individuals and organizations in contributing to the University programs and projects that are meaningful to the donor and important to the University. The Foundation provides assurance that contributions will be received, distributed and used in the manner the donor intended. The donated resources provide additional opportunities for students and promote a degree of institutional excellence unavailable…

    $19,291,844 spentof which $18,632,670 as grants$1,609,896 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $19,291,844.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($11M) Expenses 100 ($9.6M) Net assets 100 ($58M)2018 Revenue 123 ($13M) Expenses 67 ($6.4M) Net assets 120 ($69M)2019 Revenue 153 ($16M) Expenses 128 ($12M) Net assets 130 ($75M)2020 Revenue 142 ($15M) Expenses 102 ($9.9M) Net assets 132 ($76M)2021 Revenue 134 ($14M) Expenses 106 ($10M) Net assets 170 ($98M)2022 Revenue 373 ($39M) Expenses 141 ($14M) Net assets 195 ($113M)2023 Revenue 254 ($27M) Expenses 220 ($21M) Net assets 206 ($119M)2024 Revenue 248 ($26M) Expenses 177 ($17M) Net assets 233 ($135M)2025 Revenue 229 ($24M) Expenses 242 ($23M) Net assets 244 ($141M)
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Revenue (229)Expenses (242)Net assets (244)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $82M to $103M (+26%).

$65M
$77M
$81M
$82M
$103M
$118M
$125M
$141M
$148M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

64% of Idaho State University Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,254 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$931k
’17
$6.5M
’18
$3.9M
’19
$5.2M
’20
$4.0M
’21
$26M
’22
$5.6M
’23
$9.1M
’24
$884k
’25
1.9
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.

Board chair

Beena Mannan

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed272630282527252427
Joined·+3+5+7+7+8+8+8+12
No longer listed·4191061099
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $269k → $995k.

15 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 Idaho State University Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 funders by total. 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

Idaho State University Foundation Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

30% 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 Idaho State University Foundation Inc.

22%
largest funder
50%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 57% · 2019 60% · 2020 25% · 2021 34% · 2022 45% · 2023 45% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

How long its funders stay

42% of Idaho State University Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

Idaho State University Foundation Inc draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Idaho, across 22 states in all.

AK
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
DE
AZ
NC
GA
TX
FL

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

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’23
Idaho out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Idaho State University Foundation Inc has grown faster than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve1.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like Idaho State University Foundation 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 14%Fundraising 4%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

59%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 16 states

NH
MN
WI
MI
NY
OR
NJ
CA
KY
WV
VA
MD
AR
TN
SC
HI

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Charitable Remainder Trusts (6) · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds Idaho State University Foundation Inc?
Idaho State University Foundation Inc (Idaho) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,657,444 to it, the largest being KASISKA FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,357,294). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Idaho State University Foundation Inc have?
IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $10,657,444 in grants to Idaho State University Foundation Inc, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Idaho State University Foundation Inc?
KASISKA FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,357,294 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Idaho State University Foundation 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.

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 68 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing