· Private foundation
The Ballko Charitable Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA | $85,000 |
| ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $65,000 |
| FAITH IN SERVING HUMANITY (FISH) | $50,000 |
| CAMP TWIN LAKES | $40,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| CAMP SUNSHINE | $40,000 |
| CHOA AFLAC CANCER AND BLOOD CENTER | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT | $20,000 |
| SHEPHERD CENTER | $10,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| CALLANWOLDE | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +98% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ARATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC7× · 2018–2024 · $270k · revenue +380%
- CTCAMP TWIN LAKES INC7× · 2018–2024 · $265k · revenue +98%
- CSCAMP SUNSHINE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $240k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- CHCHILDREN'S HEALTHCAREone grant, 2021 · $60k
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEone grant, 2022 · $40k
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +24%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…
The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Mount sinai is committed to the advancement of the art and science of medicine through clinical excellence. the central mission consists of high-quality patient care and teaching conducted in an atmosphere of social concern and scholarly…
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
City of Hope National Medical Center's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…
We, trinity health georgia and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. mary's good samaritan foundation is a member of the trinity health…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ballko Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ballko Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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