· Private foundation
James and Alvina Bartos Balog Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of James and Alvina Bartos Balog Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k52 grants · $148k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $157k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Denver Art Museum - photo department | $75,000 |
| SJHS Respect the Seal Campaign | $41,000 |
| Bishops School La Jolla | $29,394 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| San Diego Rowing Club | $11,150 |
| SJHS | $10,100 |
| Community Servings | $10,000 |
| Our Lady of Lourdes | $10,000 |
| Smaritans Purse | $10,000 |
| Teluride Institute Telluride Mt Film | $10,000 |
| There With Care | $10,000 |
| First Choice Womans Resource Center | $8,000 |
| Partnership for DrugFree NJ Elaine | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| Voteorg | $6,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 37 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, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $301k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $125k · revenue +22%- SDSAN DIEGO FRENCH-AMERICAN SCHOOL5× · 2019–2023 · $100k · revenue +29%
- IWINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2024 · $45k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- PSPENN STATE - JAMES BALOG MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2022 · $250k
- AFALEXIA FUNDone grant, 2024 · $18k
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -25%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Citizens Campaign Inc and the most unlike its peers is W Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 75 of the 155 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO FRENCH-AMERICAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
- Who funds THERE WITH CARE ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CITIZENS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TELLURIDE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds FIRST CHOICE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST FORUM ↗
- Who funds W EUGENE SMITH MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR A DRUG-FREE NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF SUMMIT NJ ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds San Diego Rowing Club ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Paula and William J Marino Family Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Investors Foundation Inc · The Kronthal Family Foundation Inc · Healey Family Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · The Hyde and Watson 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 James and Alvina Bartos Balog Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Community Living Above — 62% of income from government
- Covenant House New Jersey Inc — 34% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Squareone Villages — 2% of income from government
- Sierra House Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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