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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 FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$40MEducation$219kPhilanthropy$202kCommunity Improvement$200kPublic Safety & Disaster$170kRecreation & Sports$107kArts & Culture$5k
02FY2025 · 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
RecipientAmount
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
LEBANON LIFESAVING CREW$10,000
TOWN OF ABINGDON$10,000
UNITED WAY OF GREENE COUTY$5,500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%BALLAD HEALTH: $17.1M → 14%NORTHEAST STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $31k → 15%UNITED WAY GREENE CO: $13k → 17%UNITED WAY ELIZABETHTONCARTER CO: $18k → 18%MISSION DENTAL VIRGINIA: $61k → 11%LEBANON LIFESAVING CREW: $10k → 18%UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA I: $11k → 20%SMYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75k → 20%GAP PARTNERSHIP: $200k → 22%BALLAD HEALTH: $5.5M → 14%UNITED WAY OF BRISTOL INC: $51k → 15%UNITED WAY OF GREENE COUTY: $6k → 17%MISSION DENTAL VIRGINIA INC: $73k → 11%TYLER FLANARY MEMORIAL PARK: $15k → 22%BALLAD HEALTH: $5.1M → 14%UNITED WAY BRISTOL TNVA: $23k → 15%MISSION DENTAL VIRGINIA INC: $41k → 11%MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $7k → 22%BALLAD HEALTH: $2.7M → 14%HOLSTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $50k → 15%EMORY & HENRY COLLEGE: $25k → 11%MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $6k → 22%BALLAD HEALTH: $2.2M → 14%WELLMONT HEALTH SYSTEM: $2.3M → 15%EMORY & HENRY COLLEGE: $25k → 11%MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $6k → 22%BALLAD HEALTH: $1.2M → 14%WELLMONT HEALTH SYSTEM: $2.1M → 15%THE ORIGIN PROJECT: $5k → 22%APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT: $100k → 14%WELLMONT HEALTH SYSTEM: $1.1M → 15%LIFETIME WELLNESS CENTER: $13k → 14%WELLMONT HEALTH SYSTEM: $257k → 15%UNITED WAY OF EAST TN HIGHLANDS: $5k → 14%WELLMONT HEALTH SYSTEM: $85k → 15%UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT IN: $44k → 15%UNITED WAY GREATER KINGSPORT: $41k → 15%WELLMONT HAWKINS CO MEM HOSPITAL: $31k → 15%WELLMONT HEALTH SYSTEM: $23k → 15%WELLMONT HAWKINS CO MEM HOSPITAL: $11k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$40M · 11 repeat orgs$592k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
9

Total granted

$40M
$316k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+33%

Still filing today

91%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $276k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementHousing & 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

  • BH
    Ballad Health
    6× · 2020–2025 · $34M · revenue +131%
  • WH
    Wellmont Health System
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5.8M · revenue +23%
  • MD
    MISSION DENTAL VIRGINIA INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue ×18

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GAP PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue -99% · 77% of their budget
  • EC
    EO COMPANIESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $37k · revenue +233%
  • UW
    United Way of ElizabethtonCarter County
    one grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue +33%

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
Smyth County Community Hospital

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.

Health
2
Takoma Regional Hospital Inc

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.

Health
3
Mountain States Health Alliance

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.

Health
4
Fort Loudoun Medical Center

Fort Loudoun Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
5
University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Inc

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
6
Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association

Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
7
East Carolina Health

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
8
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
9
Roane County Medical Center

Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
10
Appalachian Highlands Economic Development Partnership Inc

The advancement of business conditions and overall economic prospertii of an eight county area of northeast tn, comprise of johnson, unicoi, carter, washington, sullivan, green, hawkins and hancock counties by (i) supporting existing…

Community Improvement
11
Baptist Healthcare System Inc

The mission of Baptist Health is to exemplify our Christian heritage of providing quality healthcare services by enhancing the physical & emotional health of the people & communities we serve, guided by integrity, respect, stewardship,…

Health
12
The Grace Foundation for the Appalachian
Arts & Culture

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 Mission Dental Virginia Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 27 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Ballad Health — $33,793,730 · HealthBallad HealthWellmont Health System — $5,807,150 · HealthWellmont Health System+2 more — $216,991 · HealthUNITED WAY OF BRISTOL TN-VA INC — $73,644 · OtherPROJECT FIT AMERICA — $68,462 · OtherHolston Habitat for Humanity Inc — $50,000 · OtherNORTHEAST STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $30,854 · OtherMOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $18,500 · OtherUnited Way of ElizabethtonCarter County — $18,213 · OtherTOWN OF BIG STONE GAP — $15,000 · OtherLIFETIME WELLNESS CENTER — $13,111 · Other+3 more — $30,504 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC — $84,884 · PhilanthropySMYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $75,000 · PhilanthropyEO COMPANIES — $37,225 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF EAST TENNESSEE HIGHLANDS INC — $35,908 · PhilanthropyGreene County United Way Inc — $18,422 · PhilanthropyEAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION — $10,283 · PhilanthropyTHE GAP PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Community ImprovementGATLINBURG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $10,283 · Community ImprovementAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC — $100,000 · Housing & ShelterEMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationNISWONGER FOUNDATION INC — $6,500 · EducationORIGIN PROJECT INCORPORATED — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$39,817,871Other$318,288Philanthropy$261,722Community Improvement$210,283Housing & Shelter$100,000Education$56,500Arts & Culture$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBallad Health — $33,793,730 over 6y, 24% of budgetWellmont Health System — $5,807,150 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GAP PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 77% of budgetMISSION DENTAL VIRGINIA INC — $175,304 over 3y, 11% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC — $84,884 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BRISTOL TN-VA INC — $73,644 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPROJECT FIT AMERICA — $68,462 over 4y, 16% of budgetHolston Habitat for Humanity Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWellmont Hawkins County Memorial Hospital Inc — $41,687 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEO COMPANIES — $37,225 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EAST TENNESSEE HIGHLANDS INC — $35,908 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetGreene County United Way Inc — $18,422 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION — $10,283 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGATLINBURG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $10,283 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLEBANON LIFESAVING CREW INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNISWONGER FOUNDATION INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORIGIN PROJECT INCORPORATED — $5,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budget
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.

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.

Eastman Credit UnionUnited Way of Greater…Wellmont Health SystemUnited Way WorldwideVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Eastman Credit UnionTN15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastman Credit Union · United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc · Wellmont Health System · United Way Worldwide · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 organization 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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