FundersIdaho

Mountain View Charity Inc

Idaho Falls, ID · EIN 46-1473639. Reported 88 grants totalling $808,906 to 55 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$808,906granted, 2021-2024
55organizations funded
43%of grantees funded again the next year
$86,659assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Mountain View Charity Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $10,000; the smallest was $15 and the largest $70,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
8 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
27 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
23 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
21 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Idaho Governors CupBoise, ID$180,000442024
Idaho Falls Arts CouncilIdaho Falls, ID$77,000442024
Idaho State UniversityPocatello, ID$67,744332024
College of Eastern Idaho FoundationIdaho Falls, ID$65,500442024
Promontory PointAmmon, ID$47,400112021
Museum of IdahoIdaho Falls, ID$32,000442024
Clay HansenIdaho Falls, ID$21,934112021
Camp Magical MomentsSwan Valley, ID$20,000442024
Cw HogPocatello, ID$20,000222022
Idaho Medical Association FoundatioBoise, ID$20,000222022
Mountain View Hopsital Mountain View HospitalIdaho Falls, ID$17,733222022
Community Food BasketIdaho Falls, ID$17,000442024
CASA for ChildrenIdaho Falls, ID$16,000222022
Eastern Idaho Public HealthIdaho Falls, ID$12,000222024
Bonneville Youth Soccer LeagueIdaho Falls, ID$10,000222024
CASAIdaho Falls, ID$10,000112024
Champ's HeartIdaho Falls, ID$10,000112022
Champs HeartAmmon, ID$10,000112024
Decoding Dyslexia IdahoIdaho Falls, ID$10,000112022
Habitat for HumanityIdaho Falls, ID$10,000112021
YMCAIdaho Falls, ID$10,000112022
Youth JamIdaho Falls, ID$10,000222022
Turkey Box FundIdaho Falls, ID$9,000222022
Pathology AssociatesIdaho Falls, ID$8,770222023
Children With Disabilities FoundatiIdaho Falls, ID$8,764222022
Nick RobinsonIdaho Falls, ID$8,550112023
Camp HaydenIdaho Falls, ID$7,500222022
Mountain View HospitalIdaho Falls, ID$5,780112023
Ball Ventures Legacy FoundationIdaho Falls, ID$5,000112023
Fox Hollow ElementaryIdaho Falls, ID$5,000112024
Hawthorne ElementaryIdaho Falls, ID$5,000112021
Idaho Falls Soup KitchenIdaho Falls, ID$5,000112022
Teton RadiologyIdaho Falls, ID$5,000222023
United Way of Idaho FallsIdaho Falls, ID$5,000112024
Eastern Idaho Down Syndrom Family CIdaho Falls, ID$4,000222023
Community Suicide PreventionBoise, ID$3,500112021
Idaho Falls Historic FoundationIdaho Falls, ID$3,500112022
Franklin Building SupplyPocatello, ID$3,333112024
Children With Disabilities FundIdaho Falls, ID$3,000112024
Snake River Animal ShelterIdaho Falls, ID$3,000112022
Teton Cancer InstituteIdaho Falls, ID$2,646112022
Idaho Heart InstituteIdaho Falls, ID$2,330112023
Shelley Senior CenterShelley, ID$2,000112023
Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Cent Eastern Idaho Regional Medical CenterIdaho Falls, ID$1,750112021
Intermountain RadiologyBoise, ID$1,370112022
RosemarkIdaho Falls, ID$1,230112023
Beads of CourageTucson, AZ$1,000112023
Upper Valley EntRexburg, ID$725112022
Grand Peaks MedicalRexburg, ID$670112023
Idaho Falls Community HospitalIdaho Falls, ID$540112022
Domestic Violence and Sexual AssaulIdaho Falls, ID$500112022
Gamma West Brachytheraphy Gamma West BrachytheraphySalt Lake City, UT$500112021
The Alturas InstituteIdaho Falls, ID$500112023
Medical ImagingIdaho Falls, ID$122112022
Walker Spine & Sport Walker Spine & SportIdaho Falls, ID$15112021

20 of 55 (36%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 43%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

Plus 1 grants to individuals totalling $3,000 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 13 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
5 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 grants
Education
1 grant
Food & Nutrition
1 grant
Animal Welfare
1 grant
Mental Health
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202123$283,107$5,000
202229$211,636$5,000
202321$126,830$2,000
202415$187,333$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 100% of this one's giving went to organizations in Idaho. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Idaho
$807K
Arizona
$1K
Utah
$500

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Idaho Community Foundation Inc5 shared recipientsLaura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc4 shared recipientsChc Foundation3 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund3 shared recipientsM J Murdock Charitable Trust3 shared recipientsBattelle Memorial Institute3 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Idaho.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Mountain View Charity Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 2825, Idaho Falls, ID, 83404. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 46-1473639 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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