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Ballew Foundation at a glance

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Ballew Foundation

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.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Health$88kEducation$10kInternational$10kHuman Services$6kArts & Culture$5kEnvironment$2kAnimals$2kHousing & Shelter$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$18,300
Median grant
1
States reached
$416k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EQUEST$18,300
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 (FY20–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CITY OF ASYLUM: $2k → 11%FOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $100 → 14%HEART HOUSE: $5k → 14%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

MA
SD
PA
KS
NC
DC
OK
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$92k · 7 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
12

Total granted

$92k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+41%

Still filing today

43%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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

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Human ServicesHealthReligionAnimalsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • E
    EQUEST
    6× · 2020–2025 · $73k · revenue +25%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +236%
  • CA
    CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $700 · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +134%
  • LW
    Lil Warriors
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue -54%
  • FF
    FUND FOR BISHOP LYNCH HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
Let Love Live

Let love live's mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome animals in need, ensuring they receive the love, care, and respect they deserve.

Animals
2
Miracle Hill Ministries Inc

Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.

Human Services
3
Corus International Inc

TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…

Human Services
4
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

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5
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
6
City Wildlife Inc

The goals of City Wildlife are to rescue sick, orphaned, and injured wild animals and return them to the wild; to promote the enjoyment of and harmonious co-existence with native wildlife; and to protect the District of Columbias wild…

Education
7
Redeem International

Redeem's mission is to protect widows and orphans from violent abuse and exploitation.

International
8
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
9
Dallas Casa

Dallas casa volunteer advocates protect children, restore childhood and help child victims of abuse and neglect achieve their full potential.

Civil Rights
10
Austin Habitat for Humanity Inc

Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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11
Donor Alliance Inc

Donor Alliance saves and heals lives through organ and tissue donation. Donor Alliance is one of 55 Federally designated, non-profit organ procurement organizations serving Colorado and most of Wyoming. Additionally, it is a member of the…

Health
12
Children's Advocacy Center of the South Plains

To bring together community resources to speed the healing of child victims of abuse and trauma.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission Waco Mission World Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

12 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. 12 of the 19 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EQUEST: $72,700 · OtherEQUESTFUND FOR BISHOP LYNCH HIGH SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherFUND FOR BISHOP LYNCH HIGH SCHOOL+8 more: $7,308 · Other+8 moreCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S MEDICAL…Lil Warriors: $5,500 · HealthLil WarriorsSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN…MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC: $500 · ReligionHEART HOUSE: $5,000 · Human ServicesCITY OF ASYLUM: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human ServicesDUCK TEAM 6: $2,300 · AnimalsCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC: $700 · Crime & Legal
Other$85,008Health$20,500Religion$10,500Human Services$7,100Animals$2,300Crime & Legal$700

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 budgetEQUEST: $72,700 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLil Warriors: $5,500 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetHEART HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDUCK TEAM 6: $2,300 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCITY OF ASYLUM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Communities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Ballew Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ballew Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    2report 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, FY20–24
    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 19 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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