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Ballem Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Ballem Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$116kHealth$11kInternational$2kHuman Services$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$950Food & Nutrition$250Other$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$276k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY$20,000
THE SCHOOL FOR ETHICS & GLOBAL LE$10,000
DELBARTON SCHOOL$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $1k → 4%BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $300 → 17%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $1k → 4%BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 17%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $1k → 4%BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $150 → 17%BOYS TOWN: $30 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $1k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $1k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $1k → 17%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

WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
NE
VA
MD
DC
TX
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$114k · 16 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
10

Total granted

$114k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+12%

Still filing today

69%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalPublic 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

  • MK
    MONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +19%
  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +17%
  • KF
    Kessler Foundation Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +12%
  • SR
    SADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +66%
  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI HEALTHCARE
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
4
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
5
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
6
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
7
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
8
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
9
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
10
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
11
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
12
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Caldwell Police Foundation. 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

17 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. 17 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $80,000 · EducationMONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY FOUNDATIONThe School for Ethics and Global Leadership: $10,000 · EducationThe School for Ethics and Global LeadershipTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $335 · EducationDELBARTON SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherDELBARTON SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recip…SADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC: $1,000 · OtherMOUNT SINAI HEALTHCARE: $1,000 · Other+8 more: $3,100 · Other+8 moreMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesKessler Foundation Inc: $3,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $750 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $430 · Human ServicesAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,150 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $400 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $400 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $300 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $200 · HealthWORLD VISION INC: $1,700 · InternationalCALDWELL POLICE FOUNDATION: $400 · Crime & LegalCALDWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $150 · Public Safety & Disaster
Education$95,335Other$27,100Human Services$7,180Health$2,450International$1,700Crime & Legal$400Public Safety & Disaster$150

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 budgetMONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe School for Ethics and Global Leadership: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKessler Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $1,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $430 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $335 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALDWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $150 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Ballem Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ballem Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Kessler Foundation Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Saddle River Day School Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 28 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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