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Ballinger Family Foundation at a glance

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Ballinger Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$90k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$555kHuman Services$70kHealth$55kEducation$53kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kYouth Development$10kCivil Rights$10kInternational$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSEUM OF FLIGHT$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE$20,000
GIG HARBOR KIWANIS FOUNDATION$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 (FY18–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GIG HARBOR KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%GIG HARBOR KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%GIG HARBOR KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%GIG HARBOR KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%GIG HARBOR KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%GIG HARBOR KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%GIG HARBOR KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$888k · 8 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$888k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+46%

Still filing today

75%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $265k · revenue +176%
  • SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $245k · revenue +14%
  • GH
    GIG HARBOR KIWANIS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +739% · 65% of their budget

Funded once

  • CF
    CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -64%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +46%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CATHEDRAL CITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +140%
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
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
2
Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education
3
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
4
The Island School

The Island School provides a flexible learning environment where each child is known and celebrated.

Education
5
Rainier Prep

Rainier prep provides public education to students in grades 5-8 in the highline area near seattle/tacoma. rainier prep seeks to prepare students for college, career readiness, and to become leaders in their communities.

Education
6
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
7
Seattle Country Day School

Seattle country day school is an independent, coeducational school serving kindergarten through eighth grade, inspiring gifted children to reach their potential through inquiry, curiosity, and wonder.

Education
8
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

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9
Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences

Crossroads is an independent school for approximately 1,200 students.

Education
10
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

—
11
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
12
The Seven Hills School

The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Repertory Theatre; the most unlike its peers is Gig Harbor Kiwanis 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

10 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. 10 of the 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION: $265,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATIONSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE: $245,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATREIndividual grant recipient: $155,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $55,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION+1 more: $5,000 · OtherSEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $45,000 · EducationSEATTLE CHI…THE EVERGREEN SCHOOL: $45,000 · EducationTHE EVERGRE…Highlands School: $7,500 · EducationHighlands S…GIG HARBOR KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Human ServicesGIG HARBOR…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 · Human ServicesAmerican N…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CATHEDRAL CITY: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $10,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$510,000Other$235,000Education$97,500Human Services$90,000Youth Development$10,000Civil Rights$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION: $265,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE: $245,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGIG HARBOR KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 7y, 65% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE EVERGREEN SCHOOL: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CATHEDRAL CITY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHighlands School: $7,500 over 2y, 1.4% 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.

Baird Foundation IncGs Donor Advised Phil…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Baird Foundation IncWI12.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Ballinger Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ballinger Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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