New Jersey · Private foundation
Ballem Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $40k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 15
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $276k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Ballem Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $40k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $29k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $3k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $13k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $25k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $23k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montclair Kimberley Academy Foundation | $80,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The School for Ethics and Global Leadership | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mount Sinai Health System Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kessler Foundation Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $1,150 | 3 | 0% |
| Saddle River Day School Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $750 | 4 | 0% |
| Father Flanagan's Boys' Home | $430 | 5 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $400 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montclair Kimberley Academy Foundation | $80,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The School for Ethics and Global Leadership | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mount Sinai Health System Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kessler Foundation Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $1,150 | 3 | 0% |
| Saddle River Day School Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $750 | 4 | 0% |
| Father Flanagan's Boys' Home | $430 | 5 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $400 | 2 | 0% |
| Caldwell Police Foundation | $400 | 3 | n/a |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $400 | 2 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $335 | 2 | 0% |
| March of Dimes Inc | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Caldwell Volunteer Fire Department | $150 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ballem Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Ballem Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Ballem Family Foundation Inc give?
- Ballem Family Foundation Inc reported 3 grants totaling $40,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Ballem Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (87%), Health (8%), International (1%).
- Who are Ballem Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Montclair Kimberley Academy Foundation ($80k), The School for Ethics and Global Leadership ($10k), Trustees of Boston College ($5k).
- Does Ballem Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ballem Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ballem Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Ballem Family Foundation Inc based?
- Ballem Family Foundation Inc is based in NJ.
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