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Balloons Over Vermilion Nfp

To provide educational opportunities & cultural enrichment for school children in the vermilion county area

$182k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
States reached
$182k
Largest
01What you fund
0182% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$78kRecreation & Sports$26kEnvironment$25kArts & Culture$14kEducation$12kHousing & Shelter$9kFood & Nutrition$5kCommunity Improvement$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$182,100
Median grant
States reached
$512k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS$182,100
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%THE DWELLING PLACE: $8k → 17%THE DWELLING PLACE: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Vermilion Healthcare Foundation
2
Vermilion County War Museum

To display artifacts and mementos from 10 wars in order to educate youth and the general public

Arts & Culture
3
Danville Regional Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Downtown Danville Inc

Promote the Downtown area of Danville IL

Community Improvement
5
Vermilion County Farm Bureau

Promote and preserve agriculture activities for members

6
Vermilion County Handicap Assoc

Build Wheelchair Ramps

Philanthropy
7
Danville Chapter of the Va Museum of Fine Arts

To inspire community cohesiveness and facilitate impactful education through the advancement of art and history in the dan river region.

Arts & Culture
8
Verendrye Museum Inc

Preservation of historical items of south dakota.

9
Vicksburg Foundation for Historic Preservation

Identify, preserve, protect, and interpret Vicksburg's historic built environment.

Arts & Culture
10
Vernon County Historical Society

Vernon county historical society is to actively promote an understanding and awareness of vernon county history for residents and visitors

11
North Manchester Historical Society

Operate a museum and put on programs about history.

12
Illinois Valley Fuller Center for Housing

Home repairs for Veterans

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermilion Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Dwelling Place of Vermilion County. 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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VARIOUS — $644,450 · OtherVARIOUSOUTDOOR HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF VERMILION COUNTY ILLINOIS — $25,000 · Other+9 more — $38,000 · Other+9 moreOSF Healthcare Foundation — $65,000 · HealthOSF Health…GATEWAY FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOIS — $7,500 · HealthGATEWAY FA…VERMILION HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $14,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $200 · Arts & CultureDanville Soccer Association — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE DWELLING PLACE OF VERMILION COUNTY — $9,250 · Human ServicesDANVILLE FOUNDATION FOR INDUSTRIAL GROWTH — $2,500 · Community Improvement
Other$707,450Health$72,500Arts & Culture$14,200Recreation & Sports$10,000Human Services$9,250Community Improvement$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOSF Healthcare Foundation — $65,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOUTDOOR HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF VERMILION COUNTY ILLINOIS — $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetVERMILION HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetDanville Soccer Association — $10,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetTHE DWELLING PLACE OF VERMILION COUNTY — $9,250 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetGATEWAY FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOIS — $7,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDANVILLE FOUNDATION FOR INDUSTRIAL GROWTH — $2,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Vermilion Healthcare FoundationIL22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vermilion Healthcare Foundation · Iroquois Federal Foundation Inc · Julius W Hegeler II Foundation · John P Cadle Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Balloons Over Vermilion Nfp funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Balloons Over Vermilion Nfp?

    Find your warmest path to Balloons Over Vermilion Nfp through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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