· Public charity
National Balloon Rally Charities Inc
Hold an annual balloon rally in october with proceeds distributed to local charities.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of NATIONAL BALLOON RALLY CHARITIES 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.
The 10 grants below total $76,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $127,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $50,800 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MITCHELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOW | $14,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 1314 | $8,600 |
| RESTORATION ROAD MINISTRY | $8,600 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 377 | $7,500 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 607 | $7,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 363 | $7,000 |
| GUARDIAN OF THE CHILDREN MOORESVILL | $6,000 |
| PIEDMONT ANIMAL RESCUE | $6,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 609 | $6,000 |
| YOKEFELLOW MINISTRIES | $5,500 |
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 (FY24–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- PCPIEDMONT COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 4207× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +9%
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC3× · 2017–2019 · $57k · revenue -83%
- MCMITCHELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION AND ENDOWMENT FOR EXCELLENCE4× · 2022–2025 · $48k · revenue -8%
Funded once
- BMBLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue +114%
- CACIVIL AIR PATROL IREDELL SQUADRONone grant, 2022 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $7k
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.
Volunteer Avery County finds resources to aid families and individuals that do not qualify for public assistance and fall through the cracks.
To provide shelter and assistance for men 18 and older who have experienced drug and alcohol problems.
Piedmont rescue mission, inc serves alamance county & surrounding areas. a home for homeless & needy men with substance abuse issues, peer counseling for women with unplanned pregnancies and women in crisis situations;
The piedmont area chamber of commerce advocates and represents businesses' interests and issues affecting the community. we provide the environment to help our members prosper and succeed through a proactive working partnership with all…
Our primary mission is to care for and find homes for the lost, abandoned, abused and unwanted animals that come under our care. we provide veterinary care, essential medications, food, shelter and companionship until they are able to find…
The Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce is an organization that promotes a positive business environment, community betterment and supports economic development
Provide housing and needs for the homeless
To provide emergency medical care and ambulance service.
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
As a non-profit, the black mountain counseling center provides mental health counseling without regard to a client's ability to pay. services are provided by licensed, experienced counselors working with children, adults and families…
The Christian Mission provides food, clothing, shelter, substance use support, and life skills to bring individuals from crisis to stability.
To create high quality employment opportunities for unemployed and underemployed residents of mitchell, avery, and yancey counties in north carolina
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Mountain Home for Children Youth and Families Inc and the most unlike its peers is Restoration Road Ministry Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 21 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 PIEDMONT COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 420 ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION AND ENDOWMENT FOR EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS CLUB OF STATESVILLE ↗
- Who funds YOKEVILLE MINISTRY OF GREATER STATESVILLE ↗
- Who funds RESTORATION ROAD MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Iredell County Inc ↗
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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 National Balloon Rally Charities 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.