Tennessee · Private foundation
Mid-South Balloon Festival
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.
- $17k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2024
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 93%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 29
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $117k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 93% of the organizations Mid-South Balloon Festival funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $17k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $165k | 93% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $106k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $40k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collierville Education Foundation | $123,000 | 3 | 25% |
| Collierville Municipal Schools | $10,500 | 2 | n/a |
| First Book | $4,138 | 1 | 0% |
| The Baddour Center Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Shelby Literacy Center | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Faith Lutheran Church | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Junior Auxiliary of Collierville Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($186k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Mid-South Balloon Festival
- How much does Mid-South Balloon Festival give?
- Mid-South Balloon Festival reported 8 grants totaling $16,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 29 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Mid-South Balloon Festival fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (44%), Education (43%), Community Improvement (6%).
- Who are Mid-South Balloon Festival's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Collierville Education Foundation ($123k), Collierville Municipal Schools ($11k), First Book ($4k).
- Does Mid-South Balloon Festival fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 93% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mid-South Balloon Festival 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 Mid-South Balloon Festival?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Mid-South Balloon Festival based?
- Mid-South Balloon Festival is based in TN.
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