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Jessie Ballentine Charitable at a glance

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Jessie Ballentine Charitable

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$158k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$71kPublic Safety & Disaster$28kEducation$24kMembership Benefit$24kHuman Services$20kReligion$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$19,787
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUMMERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY$19,787
Individual grant recipient$19,787
JAMES VAN ZANDT VA MEDICAL$19,787
SALVATION ARMY$19,787
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$19,787
CARRIER CEMETERY ASSOCIATION$19,787
SUMMERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO$19,787
AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION$19,787
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 13% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $20k → 11%JAMES VAN ZANDT VA MEDICAL: $20k → 13%CARRIER CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $20k → 13%SALVATION ARMY: $20k → 14%AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $783 → 11%JAMES VAN ZANDT VA MEDICAL: $776 → 13%SUMMERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $20k → 13%LEGAL DEPARTMENT: $783 → 14%AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $776 → 11%JAMES VAN ZANDT VA MEDICAL: $762 → 13%SUMMERVILLE UNITED METHODIST: $20k → 13%LEGAL DEPARTMENT: $776 → 14%AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $699 → 11%JAMES VAN ZANDT VA MEDICAL CENTER: $699 → 13%SUMMERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO: $20k → 13%LEGAL DEPARTMENT: $699 → 14%AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $568 → 11%JAMES VAN ZANDT VA MEDICAL: $568 → 13%SUMMERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $783 → 13%LEGAL DEPARTMENT: $568 → 14%AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $459 → 11%JAMES VAN ZANDT VA MEDICAL: $459 → 13%SUMMERVILLE UNITED METHODIST: $783 → 13%LEGAL DEPARTMENT: $459 → 14%CARRIER CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $783 → 13%SUMMERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO: $783 → 13%SUMMERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO: $776 → 13%SUMMERVILLE UNITED METHODIST: $776 → 13%CARRIER CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $776 → 13%SUMMERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $776 → 13%SUMMERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $699 → 13%CARRIER CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $699 → 13%SUMMERVILLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $699 → 13%SUMMERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $699 → 13%SUMMERVILLE UNITED METHODIST: $568 → 13%CARRIER CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $568 → 13%SUMMERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO: $568 → 13%SUMMERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $568 → 13%CARRIER CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $459 → 13%SUMMERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO: $459 → 13%SUMMERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $459 → 13%SUMMERVILLE UNITED METHODIST: $445 → 13%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $20k → 13%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $783 → 13%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $776 → 13%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $699 → 13%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $568 → 13%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $459 → 13%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$168k · 8 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$168k
$2k

Still filing today

13%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SP
    SUMMERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue -26%
  • CC
    CARRIER CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $24k
  • AL
    AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $24k

Funded once

  • SU
    SUMMERVILLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $699
  • SV
    SUMMERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2017 · $699
  • JV
    JAMES VAN ZANDT VA MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $699
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

2 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. 2 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
1/2
Grantees still filing
0/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CARRIER CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $23,687 · OtherCARRIER CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $23,687 · OtherAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATIONSUMMERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO: $22,988 · OtherSUMMERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE COIndividual grant recipient: $22,974 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJAMES VAN ZANDT VA MEDICAL: $22,967 · OtherJAMES VAN ZANDT VA MEDICALSALVATION ARMY: $19,787 · OtherSALVATION ARMY+4 more: $5,997 · OtherSUMMERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $23,687 · EducationSUMMERVILLE PU…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $23,687 · HealthAMERICAN CANCE…
Other$142,087Education$23,687Health$23,687

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSUMMERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $23,687 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $23,687 over 8y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds SUMMERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jessie Ballentine Charitable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jessie Ballentine Charitable. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 12 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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