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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
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States reached
$182k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$182,100
Median grant
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States reached
$512k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS$182,100
02The need
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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 (FY18–21, $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 its 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
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 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.

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Vermilion Healthcare Foundation
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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

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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.

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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

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11
North Manchester Historical Society

Operate a museum and put on programs about history.

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12
Illinois Valley Fuller Center for Housing

Home repairs for Veterans

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermilion Heritage Foundation; 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 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. 9 of the 18 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

Vermilion Healthcare …Iroquois Federal Foun…Julius W Hegeler II F…John P Cadle Foundati…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Balloons Over Vermilion Nfp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Balloons Over Vermilion Nfp. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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, 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 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 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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