· Private foundation
Balgley Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k75 grants · $221k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH | $54,500 |
| FORMAN SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL ADVANCEMENT | $50,001 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHARLSESTON | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR CONSCIOUS LIVING AND DYING | $25,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $15,000 |
| DAYENU | $10,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR COMMON GROUND | $10,000 |
| YOU CAN VOTE | $10,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA | $8,000 |
| ECOFORESTORS | $7,500 |
| APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT | $7,500 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $7,000 |
| ASHEVILLE SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC | $6,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC | $5,200 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $119k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Balgley Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
88 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD5× · 2020–2024 · $209k · revenue +10%- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC5× · 2020–2024 · $163k · revenue +15%
- FSFORMAN SCHOOL INC3× · 2020–2022 · $127k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIESone grant, 2021 · $25k
- GWGLOBAL WATER CHALLENGEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +74%
United Help Ukraine Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -81%
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.
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Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.
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Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
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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…
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Haiti Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cultures in Harmony Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
110 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. 110 of the 141 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 UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds FORMAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Conscious Living & Dying ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc ↗
- Who funds The Land Institute ↗
- Who funds CLEAN ENERGY LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE MALALA FUND ↗
- Who funds Solutions Project Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP ↗
- Who funds SOIL HEALTH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Climate Foundation ↗
- Who funds POINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEGIVEASHARE Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPREAD THE VOTE INC ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds KISS THE GROUND ↗
- Who funds PLAY ON PHILLY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN YOUTH HOSTELS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT DRAWDOWN ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Foundation for the Carolinas · Walnut Cove Members Association Inc · Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The Frances & William H Beattie Fdn · Impact Health
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 Balgley Family Charitable Foundation 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Noah Webster House Inc — 46% of income from government
- The Mark Twain Memorial — 22% of income from government
- Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health Collective Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- University of Saint Joseph — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- Covenant House Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Eckerd College — 0% of income from government
- Hope for Haiti Inc — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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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