· Private foundation
The Ballard Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $112k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $97k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cinco Charities | $1,896,619 |
| Amazing Place | $500,000 |
| Christ Clinic | $381,000 |
| Katy Cares | $96,600 |
| Fidelity Charitable | $48,339 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters Greater Houston | $20,000 |
| Upbring | $12,000 |
| Covenant House of Texas | $11,000 |
| Clothed by Faith | $11,000 |
| Golden Circle Special Needs | $10,000 |
| Hope Impacts | $7,150 |
| KAEDC | $2,900 |
| The Church Global | $1,200 |
| Cinco Ranch Theatre Company Booster Club | $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 (FY17–18, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2018, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $521k 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
- CCCINCO CHARITIES INC2× · 2017–2018 · $1.9M · revenue +98%
- CCChrist Clinic2× · 2017–2018 · $421k · revenue +54%
- KCKATY CARES INC2× · 2017–2018 · $219k · revenue +13% · 36% of their budget
Funded once
- PTPoint the Way Foundationone grant, 2017 · $15k
- KCKrause Children's Treatment Centerone grant, 2017 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Our mission is to provide quality comprehensive free or low cost medical care for the uninsured, whatever their race or religion. The Clinic's services are available to any uninsured adult, 18 years old or older.
See Schedule O.Katy Christian Ministries (KCM) is a social service non-profit that serves the Katy/West Houston area. KCM's Social Service Department offers emergency financial assistance, a Food Pantry, a Crisis Center that houses the…
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
To serve the uninsured and underserved by providing free medical services with compassionate care.
To spread the love of christ to the community by providing quality healthcare and spiritual guidance. the clinic's mission is to provide free medical care and spiritual guidance that minister to the whole person. the clinic will provide…
Hope clinic removes barriers to quality healthcare for medically underserved people to promote healthier families and communities. this clinic serves as a beacon of hope, providing free, compassionate, high- quality healthcare to those in…
When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…
Sa christian dental clinic's mission is to extend christ's healing by providing charitable dental care to underserved bexar county adults. the vision of the clinic is a commitment to creating a community in which dental care and optimal…
The Hope Clinic recognizes, educates and medically treats patients who are without resources as well as link those who qualify to established programs to meet their needs. By providing preventative care and routine health maintenance,…
Christian Healthcare Specialists exists to provide exceptional medical services to the community, guided by Biblical values.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Impacts and the most unlike its peers is Cinco Ranch Theatre Company Booster Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 18 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.
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · 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 The Ballard Foundation 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.