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Ballantine Family Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$365k
Granted FY2023
94
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$243kArts & Culture$217kHuman Services$108kEnvironment$68kYouth Development$57kPhilanthropy$53kHealth$52kRecreation & Sports$48kOther$0
02FY2023 · 94 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 94 grants below total $263,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $364,725 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $101,525 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k89 grants · $196k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $67k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Music in the Mountains$20,000
Early Childhood Council of La Plata Cty$15,000
Montelores Early Childhood Council$12,000
Fort Lewis College Foundation$10,000
Durango Education Foundation$10,000
Early Childhood Council of Archuleta County$8,000
Wings Early Childhood Center$5,000
Durango Arts Center$5,000
Reaching Out to Community & Kids$5,000
Silverton Family Learning Center$5,000
The Bridge Emergency Shelter$5,000
Community Foundation Serving SW Colorado$5,000
KSUT$5,000
Ignacio Community Library$5,000
Durango Early Learning Center$5,000
02Your 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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$588k · 77 repeat orgs$405k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

77 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2023, 25 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
123

Total granted

$588k
$310k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+29%

Still filing today

77%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • DE
    Durango Education Foundation
    4× · 2018–2023 · $33k · revenue +42%
  • MI
    Music in the Mountains Inc
    3× · 2018–2023 · $28k · revenue +53%
  • TF
    THE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2023 · $22k · revenue +193%

Funded once

  • SJ
    San Juan Mountains Association
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • IL
    Imagination Library Fund (Onward! A Legacy Foundation)
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • BA
    Boys and Girls Club
    one grant, 2018 · $13k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your 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
San Juan Resource Conservation and Development Council Inc

San juan resource conservation and development council, inc.'s mission is to protect and improve the natural, cultural, historic and economic resources of the eight county area of southwest colorado.

Environment
2
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
3
Sagrada Botanical Gardens

The mission is to reconnect sustainable food and natural medicine practices to the community through the development of community land providing edible and medicinal gardens, organic farm to table food, education and regenerative land…

Environment
4
Upper Colorado River Alliance
Environment
5
Colorado Ag Water Alliance

Works with farmers and ranchers to address water issues around the state impacting agriculture.

Environment
6
Ouray County Historical Society

Historical Society for Ouray County, Colorado Museum, Historical Programs, mining, ranching and indian exhibit and artifacts, archiving historical documents and historical programs for the general public.

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7
Nature and Raptor Center of Pueblo

The agency is a conservation Center near Pueblo, CO, where land and people can provide unique experiences in education, conservation and recreation that inspire responsible environmental stewardship.

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8
Confluence Center of Colorado Inc

The Center brings together mission-focused, nonpolitical organizations working at the confluence of land and water science, education, and stewardship to magnify our impact and ensure the longevity of our natural resources for future…

Environment
9
Yampatika

Yampatika's mission is to inspire environmental stewardship through education. They fulfil that mission by developing environmental learning opportunities that serve the children and adults of Northwest Colorado.

Environment
10
Colorado Assoc of Conservation District

The mission of cacd is to serve as the unified voice for the conservation districts of colorado.

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11
Rio Grande Trails and Tales
Education
12
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Companeros Four Corners Immigrant Resource Center and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity of Archuleta County 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCollege Foundation SupportAnimal Rescue and ShelterPublic School District Foun…Community Arts CentersCommunity Theater CompaniesCharter and Independent Sch…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Senior Support ServicesPregnancy Support CentersAffordable Housing Developm…Youth Development CentersVeteran Support ServicesCommunity Literacy TutoringClassical Music OrchestrasYouth Sports ProgramsDevelopmental Disabilities …Early Childhood Care CentersChildhood Cancer SupportLgbtqia+ Advocacy and Commu…Environmental Advocacy and …Affordable Housing Construc…Public Library SupportDomestic Violence and Sexua…Professional Dance CompaniesImmigrant and Latino Integr…Local History MuseumsCommunity FoundationsGovernment Accountability &…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 21 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%7%<5yr15%10%5–10yr21%27%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr13%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%4%<5yr15%4%5–10yr21%26%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr12%30%35–55yr13%6%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/122
the rest of the field
13%
4,367/33,295

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.

03the grantee network

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 240 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
44
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/110
Grantees still filing
84/110
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Music in the Mountains Inc — $28,000 · OtherSan Juan Mountains Association — $20,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO — $32,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO+137 more — $515,200 · Other+137 moreKUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO — $32,000 · Arts & CultureKUTE INC DBA …BE FRANK FOUNDATION — $16,000 · Arts & CultureBE FRANK FOUN…DURANGO ARTS CENTER INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureDURANGO ARTS …COMMUNITY RADIO PROJECT INC KSJD — $13,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY RAD…MONTEZUMA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $8,500 · Arts & CultureMONTEZUMA COU…THE POWERHOUSE — $4,500 · Arts & CultureTHINGAMAJIG THEATRE COMPANY — $4,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $21,000 · Arts & Culture+9 moreDurango Education Foundation — $32,500 · EducationDurango Ed…THE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $21,500 · EducationTHE FORT L…Liberty School Inc — $8,000 · EducationLiberty Sc…ONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION — $7,000 · EducationONWARD A L…THE CHILDRENS KIVA MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL — $5,000 · EducationTHE CHILDR…SILVER SPRUCE ACADEMY INC — $4,500 · Education+6 more — $14,500 · Education+6 moreSilverton Family Learning Center Inc — $15,000 · Human ServicesReaching Out to Community and Kids ROCK — $14,000 · Human ServicesRENEW INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesCOMPANEROS FOUR CORNERS IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER — $6,500 · Human ServicesRIVERHOUSE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesDOVE'S NEST EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION CENTER — $4,000 · Human ServicesARCHULETA SENIORS INC — $4,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,500 · Human ServicesFOUR CORNERS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentREACH OUT AND READ COLORADO — $11,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC — $9,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO — $4,500 · Youth Development+1 more — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentDURANGO BOTANIC GARDENS — $7,000 · EnvironmentMOUNTAIN STUDIES INSTITUE — $5,500 · EnvironmentSAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · EnvironmentWILLOWTAIL SPRINGS NATURE PRESERVE & EDU CATION CENTER — $5,000 · EnvironmentDolores River Boating Advocates — $4,000 · EnvironmentTORREY HOUSE PRESS — $3,500 · EnvironmentKEYSTONE CENTER — $3,000 · EnvironmentLa Plata Open Space Conservancy — $3,000 · EnvironmentMONTEZUMA SCHOOL TO FARM PROJECT — $2,500 · EnvironmentCenter for Snow and Avalanche Studies — $2,000 · EnvironmentSan Juan Citizens Alliance — $2,000 · EnvironmentTHE ARC OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO INC — $8,000 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $7,000 · HealthFOUR CORNERS RAINBOW YOUTH CENTER — $5,500 · HealthANIMAS ALANO CLUB — $4,500 · HealthCortez Addictions Recovery Services Inc — $4,200 · HealthGrief Center of Southwest Colorado — $4,000 · HealthSOUTHWEST COLORADO MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $3,000 · HealthLocal First Foundation — $2,500 · Health
Other$595,200Arts & Culture$114,000Education$93,000Human Services$59,000Youth Development$44,500Environment$42,500Health$38,700

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDurango Education Foundation — $32,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING SOUTHWEST COLORADO — $32,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetKUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO — $32,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMusic in the Mountains Inc — $28,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetTHE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $21,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOUR CORNERS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $18,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBE FRANK FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetDURANGO ARTS CENTER INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSilverton Family Learning Center Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetReaching Out to Community and Kids ROCK — $14,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetTHE BRIDGE EMERGENCY SHELTER — $14,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY RADIO PROJECT INC KSJD — $13,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWomens Resource Center in Durango — $12,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budget4 the Children — $12,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ COLORADO — $11,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSpring Creek Horse Rescue — $11,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC — $9,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLA PUENTE HOME INC — $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMONTEZUMA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $8,500 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetTHE ARC OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO INC — $8,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLiberty School Inc — $8,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRENEW INC — $8,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetDurango Early Learning Center Inc — $7,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES ORGANIZATION — $7,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDURANGO BOTANIC GARDENS — $7,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDANCING SPIRIT INC — $6,500 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetCOMPANEROS FOUR CORNERS IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER — $6,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetDURANGO COWBOY POETRY GATHERING INC — $6,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetLa Plata Youth Services — $6,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOUSING SOLUTIONS FOR THE SOUTHWEST — $6,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTEAM UP — $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRIVERHOUSE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNTAIN STUDIES INSTITUE — $5,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFOUR CORNERS RAINBOW YOUTH CENTER — $5,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWILLOWTAIL SPRINGS NATURE PRESERVE & EDU CATION CENTER — $5,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS KIVA MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMontana Association of Naturopathic Physicians — $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetANIMAS ALANO CLUB — $4,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE POWERHOUSE — $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSILVER SPRUCE ACADEMY INC — $4,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCortez Addictions Recovery Services Inc — $4,200 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLA PLATA FAMILY CENTERS COALITION — $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

El Pomar FoundationCommunity Foundation …Rocky Mountain Health…Colorado Gives Founda…Team UpAnschutz Family Found…The Colorado Health F…Thoren Family Charita…Westmeath FoundationTemple Hoyne Buell Fo…Gates Family Foundati…The Erteszek Foundati…
El Pomar FoundationCO77.1× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: El Pomar Foundation · Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Team Up · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Thoren Family Charitable Trust · Westmeath Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · The Erteszek 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Ballantine Family Fund?

Find your warmest path to Ballantine Family Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 240 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $477k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home