Missouri · Private foundation
Balmes 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.
- $178k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Balmes Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $178k | 53% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $170k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $113k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $50k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $45k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $45k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $41k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $6k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Higher Ground USA Inc | $134,700 | 7 | 1% |
| National Ability Center | $90,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Guide Dogs of the Desert | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Patient Airlift Services Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Shelter to Soldier Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Challenged Athletes Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Healing Strides of Virginia | $20,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Zero8Hundred Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Black Los Angeles County Client Coalition Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wounded Warrior Homes Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Balmes Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Cushman Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Billingsley Foundationcharle & Ruth · Masserini Maurice J Tua · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Annenberg Foundation
How this is measured
About Balmes Foundation
- How much does Balmes Foundation give?
- Balmes Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $178,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Balmes Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (39%), Health (22%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Balmes Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Higher Ground USA Inc ($135k), National Ability Center ($90k), Guide Dogs of the Desert ($40k).
- Does Balmes Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Balmes Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Balmes Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cushman Foundation, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Rancho Santa Fe Foundation.
- Where is Balmes Foundation based?
- Balmes Foundation is based in MO.
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