· Private foundation
Balda Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $15,500 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,500 |
| ROLLINS COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $1,500 |
| BETHUNE COOKMAN UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| FLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| BREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 12% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
29 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- FIFLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +27%
- BSBREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +32%
- BCBrevard County Legal Aid Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $28k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- BCBREVARD COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $23k
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $9k
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Barry university is a catholic institution of higher education founded by the adrian dominican sisters. with a liberal arts tradition, barry university is a scholarly community committed to the highest academic standards in undergraduate,…
Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida Institute of Technology Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brevard County Legal Aid Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR BREVARD INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds BREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Brevard County Legal Aid Inc ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds ROLLINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CLUB ESTEEM INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BREVARD NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds LINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Margaret R Binz Foundation Inc · The Margaret Heins Foundation · Community Foundation for Brevard Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Balda Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Brevard County Legal Aid Inc — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Bethune-Cookman University — 6% of income from government
- Florida Institute of Technology Inc — 5% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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