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The Balkcom Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

The Balkcom Charitable Trust

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$447k
Granted FY2021
13
Grants FY2021
3
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Health$320kEducation$111kAnimals$50kReligion$47kInternational$15kYouth Development$5kArts & Culture$3kEmployment$500Other$0
02FY2021 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k9 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $275k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION$275,000
WESLEYAN SCHOOL$100,000
PEACHTREE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$30,000
REFUGE POINT$15,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$5,301
SUMMERHILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$5,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY ALS CENTER$5,000
REFLECTION MINISTRIES$3,000
DESIRE STREET MINISTRIES$3,000
NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM$2,500
CORNERS OUTREACH$1,200
ONE HUNDRED SHARES$1,000
BOBBY DODD INSTITUTE$500
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WONDERS OF WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%BARNABAS INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 10%WESLEYAN SCHOOL: $100k → 9%PEACHTREE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $30k → 13%EMORY UNIVERSITY ALS CENTER: $5k → 14%LAGRANGE COLLEGE: $10k → 18%NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM: $3k → 18%CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%CORNERS OUTREACH: $1k → 9%ORCHARD: $5k → 13%CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%REFLECTION MINISTRIES: $3k → 13%SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION: $275k → 13%SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%DESIRE STREET MINISTRIES: $3k → 13%BOBBY DODD INSTITUTE: $500 → 13%SUMMERHILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $5k → 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 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
Springfield Rescue Mission

The goal of the springfield rescue mission since 1892 has been to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the hungry, homeless, addicted, and poor by introducing them to christ and helping them apply the word of god to every area of their…

Human Services
2
Christ Mission College

Cmc passionately develops a students god-given potential in a practical process of biblical higher education, discipleship, and practical experience for sacrificial service in the church and community to expand gods kingdom in the world…

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3
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
4
Good Samaritan Mission Inc

To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.

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5
Portersville Christian School

The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…

Education
6
Great Commission University Inc

Gcu serves the global church by educating mission leaders to fulfill the great commission of jesus christ. gcu accomplishes this mission through a comprehensive program of biblical and general education, christ-centered service and…

Education
7
Wayne Dorsett Ministries Inc

To reach lost people with the transforming Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
8
Sole Ministries

None

Religion
9
Tri-State Christian Academy Inc

Our desire is to provide balanced, biblical direction to the child as a support to the home and to train each student to be self-disciplined and biblically directed in their walk with god and their fellow man. it is also our desire to meet…

Education
10
Shepherds Theological Seminary Inc

To train men and women for ministry.

Education
11
Walnut Grove Christian School

We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…

Education
12
William Jessup University

In partnership with the church, the purpose of william jessup university is to educate transformational leaders for the glory of god.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Desire Street Ministries; the most unlike its peers is Corners Outreach Llc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 17 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)
11/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $305,000 · PhilanthropySHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC+2 more: $4,000 · PhilanthropyWESLEYAN SCHOOL INC: $100,000 · EducationWESLEYAN SCHOOL INCLaGrange College: $10,000 · EducationLaGrange CollegeWONDERS OF WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherWONDERS OF WILDLIF…PEACHTREE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $30,000 · OtherPEACHTREE PRESBYTE…THE ORCHARD: $5,000 · OtherTHE ORCHARDEMORY UNIVERSITY ALS CENTER: $5,000 · OtherEMORY UNIVERSITY A…+2 more: $3,000 · OtherREFUGEPOINT INC: $15,000 · InternationalBARNABAS INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · ReligionDesire Street Ministries: $3,000 · ReligionCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $10,301 · HealthSUMMERHILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCORNERS OUTREACH LLC: $1,200 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$309,000Education$110,000Other$93,000International$15,000Religion$13,000Health$10,301Youth Development$6,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWESLEYAN SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREFUGEPOINT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $10,301 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLaGrange College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARNABAS INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSUMMERHILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDesire Street Ministries: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCORNERS OUTREACH LLC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE HUNDRED SHARES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOBBY DODD INSTITUTE INC: $500 over 1y, 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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Balkcom Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Balkcom Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 17 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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