Boise Pride Festival

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
473287467
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Boise, ID, USA
Phone
6125813703
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Lesbian, Gay Rights

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$459,529
Expenses
$459,938
Assets
$59,991
Liabilities
$40,549

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Donald Williamson (Executive Director)
  • Michael Dale (President - Board of Directors)
  • Joseph Kibbe (Vice President - Board of Directors)

Highest reported compensation

  • Davis Hilton (Marketing Director): $40,000 total reported compensation
  • Donald Williamson (Executive Director): $15,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Boise Pride Festival, Inc. celebrates and supports the LGBTQ+ community in Idaho through cultural programming, education, advocacy, and community engagement. The organization promotes diversity, inclusion, visibility, and positive interaction among LGBTQ+ individuals, allies, businesses, and the broader community through public events and year-round outreach activities.

What it reported doing in 2025

Boise Pride Festival, Inc. produces the annual Boise Pride Festival and Parade, which celebrates and supports the LGBTQ+ community in Idaho through cultural programming, community engagement, and educational opportunities. The event brings together community members, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and allies to promote inclusion, visibility, and support for LGBTQ+ individuals and families. In 2024, the organization hosted the Boise Pride Festival and Parade, featuring live entertainment, community vendors, nonprofit exhibitors, and family-friendly programming. The event provided opportunities for local organizations and businesses to connect with attendees, while also raising awareness and resources for LGBTQ+ causes and services in the region. Like many events in recent years, the organization continued to experience rising costs due to inflation and the increased security and safety measures required to host a large public gathering. Despite these challenges, Boise Pride Festival successfully produced a safe, welcoming, and well-attended event that continued to strengthen community connections and visibility for LGBTQ+ individuals across Idaho.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 62% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 60
  • Sustainability: 23
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.1%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.68; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -10.6% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -9.1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $460K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $40K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.