How much does Ballad Health give?

Ballad Health reported 19 itemized grants totaling $691,757, out of $2,007,011 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does Ballad Health fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (62%), Health (17%), Arts & Culture (6%).

Who are Ballad Health's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Eo Companies ($4.0M), Mountain States Foundation ($990k), Town of Jonesborough ($250k).

Does Ballad Health fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ballad Health?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mountain States Health Alliance, Wellmont Health System, East Tennessee Foundation.

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Tennessee · Public charity

Ballad Health

Honor those we serve by delivering the best possible care.Ballad Health is dedicated to improving the health of the 29-county Appalachian Highlands region.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 19
Itemized grants FY2025: 21
Organizations funded FY2024: 100%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $692k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $125,000
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 21; FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $2.0B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Ballad Health funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.7M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHealthArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	18	$682k	78%
FY2024	21	$4.7M	100%
FY2023	2	$25k	100%
FY2022	3	$55k	100%
FY2019	1	$990k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$4.0MHealth$1.1MArts & Culture$398kRecreation & Sports$305kCommunity Improvement$271kEducation$234kPublic Benefit$92kYouth Development$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Eo Companies	$4,000,000	1	14%
Mountain States Foundation	$990,209	1	n/a
Town of Jonesborough	$250,000	1	n/a
Milligan University	$129,600	2	0%
East Tennessee State University Foundation	$125,000	1	1%
Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc	$105,525	2	1%
Appalachian Highlands Economic Development Partnership Inc	$100,000	1	17%
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc	$67,150	1	0%
First Tennessee Development District	$50,000	1	n/a
Hometown Service Coalition	$50,000	1	4%

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All grantees of Ballad Health by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Eo Companies	$4,000,000	1	14%
Mountain States Foundation	$990,209	1	n/a
Town of Jonesborough	$250,000	1	n/a
Milligan University	$129,600	2	0%
East Tennessee State University Foundation	$125,000	1	1%
Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc	$105,525	2	1%
Appalachian Highlands Economic Development Partnership Inc	$100,000	1	17%
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc	$67,150	1	0%
First Tennessee Development District	$50,000	1	n/a
Hometown Service Coalition	$50,000	1	4%
Junior Achievement of Tri-Cities Tn/Va Inc	$47,000	2	26%
Niswonger Foundation Inc	$40,000	1	0%
Dobyns Bennett Band Boosters Club	$35,000	1	6%
Cardinal Productions Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Jeremiah School	$25,000	1	3%
Foundation for Educational and Deve Lopmental Opportunity School	$25,000	1	1%
Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education	$25,000	1	n/a
Leadership Tennessee Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Adaptoplay	$20,000	1	n/a
Visit Johnson City Foundation Inc	$20,000	2	3%
Greater Kingsport Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Music For All Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Appalachian Banner Academy	$20,000	1	9%
The Coalition for Better Health	$20,000	1	10%
Governor's Early Literacy Foundation	$20,000	1	0%
FoundersForge	$15,000	1	7%
President and Fellows of Harvard College	$15,000	1	n/a
Appalachian Mountain Project Access Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Rotary Club of Kingsport Foundation	$15,000	1	n/a
Blue Plum Organization	$15,000	1	n/a
American Cancer Society Inc	$14,500	1	0%
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Kingsport Inc	$12,500	1	1%
Science Hill High School Band Boosters Inc	$10,000	1	5%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$10,000	1	0%
Barter Foundation Inc State Theatre of Virginia	$9,550	1	0%
International Storytelling Center	$8,500	1	n/a
Boys and Girls Club of Elizabethton Carter County Inc	$8,000	1	1%
The Bristol Trainstation Foundation	$7,500	1	5%
George L Carter Railroad Musuem Inc	$7,500	1	2%
Streamworks Inc	$7,257	1	n/a
Boys & Girls Club of Johnson City Washington County	$4,400	1	0%

Ballad Health supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Mountain States Health AllianceTN30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mountain States Health Alliance · Wellmont Health System · East Tennessee Foundation · Eastman Credit Union · Speedway Children's Charities · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Citizens Bank Tri-Cities Foundation Ltd · Mooneyhan Family Foundation Inc · United Way of East Tennessee Highlands Inc · Food City Charitable Foundation · Tennessee Health Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Ballad Health

How much does Ballad Health give?: Ballad Health reported 19 itemized grants totaling $691,757, out of $2,007,011 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Ballad Health fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (62%), Health (17%), Arts & Culture (6%).
Who are Ballad Health's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Eo Companies ($4.0M), Mountain States Foundation ($990k), Town of Jonesborough ($250k).
Does Ballad Health fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ballad Health?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mountain States Health Alliance, Wellmont Health System, East Tennessee Foundation.
Where is Ballad Health based?: Ballad Health is based in TN.