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Ballard Angels Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$31k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$90kAnimals$41kHuman Services$23kYouth Development$15kReligion$15kPublic Benefit$12kInternational$12kHealth$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$345k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TURNING POINT USA$12,000
PAWS FOR A CURE$5,000
ST JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCH$3,600
THE BRIDGE OF PENN-YORK VALLEY CHURCHES$3,000
THE SOCIETY FOR DOGS WITH ANXIETY$2,500
HAZELTON ROTARY CLUB$1,100
THE GUTHRIE CLINIC$1,000
WINGS OF HOPE$750
Individual grant recipient$750
SOUTH WAVERLY VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT$500
ENDLESS MOUNTAINS MISSION$500
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ENDLESS MOUNTAINS$500
WESTCOTT HOUSE$125
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OUR CHILDREN HAVE RIGHTS ORG: $5k → 12%CONTINUING THE MISSION: $200 → 10%CONTINUING THE MISSION: $200 → 10%WAY TO BATTLE: $200 → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE CENTER: $1k → 15%BRANDON'S FOREVER HOME: $1k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $500 → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$116k · 36 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
91

Total granted

$116k
$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+10%

Still filing today

50%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    2× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +83%
  • CF
    CAMP FREEDOM INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $3k · revenue +112%
  • WINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • GY
    GOT YOUR SIX-DOGS
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • K9S FOR WARRIORS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +19%
  • CL
    CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
K9 Hurricane's Heroes Inc

K9 hurricane's heroes, a federally recognized, non-profit organization, provides "retired law enforcement and military dogs" with subsidized veterinary care so they can live a long and healthy life. often these incredible dogs are the…

Animals
2
K9S for Warriors Research Institute Inc

Research and advocacy for veterans with post-traumatic stress and the prevention of veteran suicide.

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3
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
4
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit
5
Adams County Pet Rescue

Rescue, care, and find homes for abandoned and/or abused animals.

Animals
6
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
7
Operation Pets - the Spay-Neuter Clinic of Wny Inc

Operation pets provides high quality, high volume, affordable spay and neuter services to the underserved population of western new york including outreach to local animal welfare groups.

Animals
8
Humane Pennsylvania

Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.

Animals
9
United States War Dogs Association Inc

The mission of the corporation is to provide support for the war dogs of the united states military. the organization provides care packages to war dogs and their handlers serving overseas. the organization also provides support for…

Animals
10
Danbury Animal Welfare Society

Danbury animal welfare society , inc.(daws) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our community and beyond. we promote responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals, and work toward…

Animals
11
Roam Wolfdog Sanctuary

To provide a safe and nurturing environment for abandoned and neglected wolfdogs while educating the public about their unique needs and behavior.

Animals
12
Packages From Home

To send care and comfort packages to deployed american military heroes who are stationed in active duty theaters around the world, as well as to facilitate activities that elevate morale of all veterans

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 135 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/62
Grantees still filing
38/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCH: $15,800 · OtherST JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCHTURNING POINT USA INC: $12,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCPAWS FOR A CURE: $10,000 · OtherGOT YOUR SIX-DOGS: $10,000 · OtherCHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH: $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $8,000 · OtherTHE BRIDGE OF PENN-YORK VALLEY CHURCHES: $7,750 · Other+91 more: $116,549 · Other+91 moreK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $10,000 · AnimalsPAWS OF WAR INC: $5,000 · Animals+7 more: $1,900 · AnimalsMINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentDRESS FOR SUCCESS LUZERNE COUNTY: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentOUR CHILDREN HAVE RIGHTSORG INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE CENTER INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesVALLEY SANTA INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesBRANDONS FOREVER HOME: $1,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF WYOMING VALLEY: $500 · Human ServicesCONTINUING THE MISSION INC: $400 · Human Services+2 more: $450 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $11,000 · ReligionHAVEN OF PEACE INC: $450 · ReligionRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF DANVILLE INC: $2,000 · HealthTHE GUTHRIE CLINIC: $1,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $500 · HealthUNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES FOUNDATION: $500 · HealthABUSE & RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC: $250 · HealthRonald McDonald House Charities of Rochester NY Inc: $250 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $250 · Health+1 more: $200 · HealthMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE TWIN TIERS: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCAN DO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyENDOMETRIOSIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY GIVING FOUNDATION: $250 · Philanthropy
Other$188,099Animals$16,900Youth Development$16,000Human Services$11,850Religion$11,450Health$6,450Philanthropy$5,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS OF WAR INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUR CHILDREN HAVE RIGHTSORG INC: $4,500 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP FREEDOM INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE CENTER INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE: $2,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF DANVILLE INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMARIAN SUTHERLAND KIRBY LIBRARY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD HUNGER OUTREACH PARTNERS: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GUTHRIE CLINIC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY SANTA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,154 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDONS FOREVER HOME: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS LUZERNE COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE TWIN TIERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY REGIONAL FIRE AND RESCUE INC: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF WYOMING VALLEY: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAILS OF VALOR PAWS OF HONOR PROGRAM IN: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAN DO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFirehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENDOMETRIOSIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHANY HOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAVAGE FREEDOMS RELIEF OPERATIONS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAVEN OF PEACE INC: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONTINUING THE MISSION INC: $400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetABUSE & RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY GIVING FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LUZERNE FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Rochester NY Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOWANDA AREA CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $230 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL CARE SANCTUARY: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT ROCHESTER INC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
  • Who funds PAWS OF WAR INC ↗
  • Who funds OUR CHILDREN HAVE RIGHTSORG INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP FREEDOM INC ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF DANVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds MARIAN SUTHERLAND KIRBY LIBRARY ↗

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.

Ppl FoundationThe Luzerne FoundationUnited Way of Bradfor…The Tambur Family Fou…The Tsb Foundation IncWilliam G McGowan Cha…Firstenergy FoundationFirst Federal Charita…Robert y Moffat Chari…Kenneth and Caroline …Tioga Downs Regional …Allone Charities
Ppl FoundationPA22.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ppl Foundation · The Luzerne Foundation · United Way of Bradford County · The Tambur Family Foundation · The Tsb Foundation Inc · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · Firstenergy Foundation · First Federal Charitable Foundation · Robert y Moffat Charitable Trust · Kenneth and Caroline Taylor Family Foundation · Tioga Downs Regional Community Foundation Inc · Allone Charities

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ballard Angels Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ballard Angels Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
15report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 135 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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