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Mrballen Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$188k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$68k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$342kHuman Services$75kInternational$50kCommunity Improvement$50kAnimals$10k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $118k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$52k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Love is Greater than Hate Proje$67,500
End Violence Against Women Internat$50,000
A21 USA Inc$25,000
Child Brmt of Sth Tx$20,000
Mary's Place$10,000
FamilyJusticeCenterFmPeaceCtrofWash$10,000
Victims Support Services$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOMICIDE SURVIVORS INC: $25k → 15%A21 USA Inc: $25k → 11%CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $50k → 16%END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 13%END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
WI
OR
CT
CA
AZ
GA
TX
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 field

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.

1
Stichting Womens Initiatives for Gender Justice

Ending impunity for conflict related sexual violence

International
2
Woman Survival Inc

Help abused & battered woman

Housing & Shelter
3
Hush No More

We provide support to survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, child sexual abuse, and incest.

Health
4
All About Increase Inc

Advocate for families with homicide victoms

Youth Development
5
Survivors Resources Inc Dba Safe Haven Inc of Pike County

Provide counseling, crisis intervention, 24 hour crisis hotline, advocacy, safe housing and supportive services to victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.

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6
Voices of the Abused

Help and heal the heartacheand pain of the abused.

Crime & Legal
7
Her Voice Foundation

Her voice foundation is a non-profit foundation that acts as a liaison to provide victim / survivor advocacy services for female victims of violent crime across the united states. we are committed to assisting victims and survivors of…

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8
Healing and Resilience After Trauma

Support victims of human trafficking

Human Services
9
Sisterhood Against Sexual Assault

Promote awarness and help toward sexual assault victims

Health
10
Sunshine Promises Inc

Domestic violence abuse counseling

Crime & Legal
11
No More Tears Inc

No more tears is a violence- and crime-prevention program founded in 2002 by men incarcerated at san quentin and concerned citizens both seeking to remedy the rise of violent crime in their communities and reduce the recidivism rate of…

Crime & Legal
12
Tennessee Voices for Victims

To engage and empower victims and citizens in the effort to reduce violent crime.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A21 Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Ride Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Child Brmt of Sth Tx: $95,464 · OtherChild Brmt of Sth TxThe Love is Greater than Hate Proje: $67,500 · OtherThe Love is Greater than Hate ProjeEnd Violence Against Women Internat: $50,000 · OtherEnd Violence Against Women InternatIndividual grant recipient: $17,989 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSurvivors of Homicide Inc: $11,000 · OtherMary's Place: $10,000 · OtherFamilyJusticeCenterFmPeaceCtrofWash: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherEND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INTERNATIONAL (EVAWI): $50,000 · Human ServicesEND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INTER…CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $50,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF …Homicide Survivors Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesHomicide Survivors IncA21 USA INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesA21 USA INCTHE ONESTAR FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ONESTA…MEN STOPPING VIOLENCE INC: $25,000 · Crime & LegalMEN STOPPI…LOVE GREATER THAN HATE PROJECT: $25,000 · Crime & LegalLOVE GREAT…THE RIDE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Animals
Other$266,953Human Services$150,000Community Improvement$50,000Crime & Legal$50,000Animals$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INTERNATIONAL (EVAWI): $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE ONESTAR FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMEN STOPPING VIOLENCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetLOVE GREATER THAN HATE PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetHomicide Survivors Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetA21 USA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSurvivors of Homicide Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetTHE RIDE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 13% 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.

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH8.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 85%
  • Survivors of Homicide Inc: 85% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Mrballen Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Mrballen Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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