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BALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION
BALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION's primary purpose is to build relationships with others to fulfill the mission and vision of ballad health through philanthropy.
$5.9M
Granted FY2025
9
Grants
2
Communities
$5.5M
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Health$35MPhilanthropy$207kHousing & Shelter$100kEducation$32kArts & Culture$5kOther$234k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
literacyhealthylivesway bristolfitnessfitchildren
2021
childrenyouthfit america'samerica's raiseraise orderfitness equipmentequipment grades
2022
mecc
2023
—
2025
scholarshipdisaster relief
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 9 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $286k
- $250k+1 grant · $5.5M
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$65M
Total assets
Largest grants
- BALLAD HEALTH$5,532,407
- APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT$100,000
- SMYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$75,000
- MISSION DENTAL VIRGINIA$61,000
- HOLSTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$50,000
- NORTHEAST STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$30,854
- TOWN OF ABINGDON$10,000
- LEBANON LIFESAVING CREW$10,000
- UNITED WAY OF GREENE COUTY$5,500
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 16%. 0% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$32M · 6 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
6
11
Total granted
$32M
$3.6M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+20%
+18%
Still filing today
83%
73%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $276k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
PhilanthropyHealthEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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
- MDMISSION DENTAL VIRGINIA INC3× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +895%
- UWUNITED WAY OF EAST TN HIGHLANDS2× · 2020–2022 · $36k · revenue +132%
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREENE COUTY2× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- WHWELLMONT HEALTH SYSTEMone grant, 2018 · $3.4M · revenue +18%
- UWUNITED WAY GREATER KINGSPORTone grant, 2020 · $41k · revenue -12%
- UWUNITED WAY SOUTHWEST VAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $37k · revenue +1231%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
West Virginia United Health System Inc
West Virginia United Health System is committed to improving the health of the communities it serves through quality, cost effective health care services support of health professional training and research.
Health
2
Carilion Clinic
Our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve through our commitment to a common purpose of better patient care, better community health, and lower cost.
Health
3
Carilion Medical Center
Our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve through our commitment to a common purpose of better patient care, better community health, and lower cost.
Health
4
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Vanderbilt University Medical Center ("VUMC") is one of the nation's longest serving and most prestigious academic medical centers. Through its historic bond with Vanderbilt University, VUMC cultivates distinguished research and…
Health
5
Tennessee Wesleyan University
Four-year liberal arts college
Education
6
Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital
Our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve through our commitment to a common purpose of better patient care, better community health, and lower cost.
Health
7
Carilion New River Valley Medical Center
Our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve through our commitment to a common purpose of better patient care, better community health, and lower cost.
Health
8
West Virginia University Hospitals Inc
WVU Hospitals exists to provide a quality healthcare system, including tertiary services, to the citizens of WV and the surrounding region.
Health
9
East Tennessee Children's Hospital
At etch, children are our only concern, providing the best healthcare to every child served.
Health
10
Appalachian Regional Healthcare
To provide central appalachia an abundance of healthcare and community-oriented services through its hospital, clinics and home health operations as well as community outreach services.
Health
11
Intermountain Healthcare
Provide strategic and fiduciary leadership for philanthropic endeavors of ihc health services, inc.
Health
12
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center is a 541-bed full service acute care hospital located in the Fort Sanders community of downtown Knoxville, Tennessee. It is a member of the Covenant Health system.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wellmont Hawkins County Memorial. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Health$35,231,556Other$234,350Philanthropy$207,336Housing & Shelter$100,000Education$31,500Arts & Culture$5,000
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 BALLAD HEALTH ↗
- Who funds WELLMONT HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds MISSION DENTAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SMYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLSTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FIT AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY GREATER KINGSPORT ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY SOUTHWEST VA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF EAST TN HIGHLANDS ↗
- Who funds WELLMONT HAWKINS CO MEM HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds EMORY & HENRY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY BRISTOL TNVA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENE COUTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY ELIZABETHTONCARTER CO ↗
- Who funds LEBANON LIFESAVING CREW ↗
- Who funds THE NISWONGER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ORIGIN PROJECT ↗
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.
United Way WorldwideVA14.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: United Way Worldwide · United Ways of Tennessee · United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc · Eastman Credit Union · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organisation BALLAD HEALTH 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BALLAD HEALTH.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~5 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 611771290 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on BALLAD HEALTH, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 24% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Ballad Health Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Ballad Health Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines