· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $185k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $285k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| CAPE FEAR ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| WESTMINSTER SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| PARK PRIDE | $20,000 |
| TRYALL FUND | $20,000 |
| SKIDMORE COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TRINITY SCHOOL OF ATLANTA | $10,000 |
| EDEN VILLAGE OF WILMINGTON | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $10,000 |
| LAKE BURTON CIVIC ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEASTERN NC | $10,000 |
| ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| CUCALORUS FILM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NOURISHNC | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -18% for those funded once.
63 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LWLOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM6× · 2019–2025 · $114k · revenue +3%
- CFCape Fear Academy6× · 2019–2025 · $95k · revenue +70%
- SCSKIDMORE COLLEGE3× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- ASATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAone grant, 2024 · $100k
- HDHISTORIC DISTRICT DEV CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k
Teach for America Incone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue -18%
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.
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.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
Facilitate networking among hospitals
Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.
Operation of a public charter school.
The mission of The Charlotte Center is to help our community flourish. We accomplish our mission by bringing people together to explore community life together through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Our commitment is to provide the individual support, meaningful training and employment services to people to remove barriers and close skill gaps so that individuals build brighter futures.
Horizons Atlanta is a tuition-free, intensive, six-week summer academic and enrichment program that supports students from under-served communities over the course of their academic careers.
Junior achievement is the world's largest organization dedicated to educating private and public school students in grades k-12 about entrepreneurship, workforce readiness, and financial literacy, through experiential, hands-on programs.
Wake county smart start invests in young children, their families, and a connected early childhood system that supports and prepares them for school and life ahead.
How this is measured
62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 85 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds LOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Cape Fear Academy ↗
- Who funds PARK PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds The Westminster Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CUCALORUS FILM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds TREES ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds PATH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Cape Fear Trees ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AGAPE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LAKE BURTON CIVIC ASSOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tryall Fund Jamaica ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds NourishNC Inc ↗
- Who funds PROPEL ATL INC ↗
- Who funds Arts Council of Wilmington and New Hanover County ↗
- Who funds Eden Village of Wilmington ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds THE STUDY HALL INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds DREAMS OF WILMINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CHRIS 180 INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS MAKING IT INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Directed Balloun Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Directed Balloun Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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