Nevada · Private foundation
Directed Balloun Family 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.
- $620k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 65
- Grants FY2025
- 55
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 55
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations Directed Balloun Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $256k 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 | 64 | $610k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 55 | $569k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $116k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $59k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $42k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $41k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $50k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum | $114,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Cape Fear Academy | $95,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Park Pride Inc | $68,850 | 6 | 1% |
| The Westminster Schools Inc | $59,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Skidmore College | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cucalorus Film Foundation | $34,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Trees Atlanta Inc | $27,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Path Foundation Inc | $27,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Alliance for Cape Fear Trees | $23,400 | 3 | 9% |
| Clemson University Foundation | $23,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($429k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Directed Balloun Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 55 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Landfall Foundation Inc · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · The True North Foundation Co Amy Brown North · The Lagomarsino Foundation · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · The Rudisill Family Foundation · Jeffrey Schrager & Anne York Family Foundation · The Eshelman Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Directed Balloun Family Foundation with peer funders
About Directed Balloun Family Foundation
- How much does Directed Balloun Family Foundation give?
- Directed Balloun Family Foundation reported 65 grants totaling $620,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 55 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Directed Balloun Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Arts & Culture (18%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are Directed Balloun Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum ($114k), Cape Fear Academy ($95k), Park Pride Inc ($69k).
- Does Directed Balloun Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Directed Balloun Family 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 Directed Balloun Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Landfall Foundation Inc, New Hanover Community Endowment Inc, North Carolina Community Foundation.
- Where is Directed Balloun Family Foundation based?
- Directed Balloun Family Foundation is based in NV.
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