· Private foundation
The Ballmann Family Private Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $540k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOOD SAMARITAN HOME | $140,625 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES & | $93,750 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI | $93,750 |
| MISSOURI COUNCIL OF THE BLIND | $93,750 |
| VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION | $93,750 |
| FAMILY FORWARD | $93,750 |
| RANKEN TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $93,750 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $93,750 |
| ST ANDREWS AT HOME SERVICES | $93,750 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER ST LOUIS | $93,750 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $93,750 |
| YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $93,750 |
| SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY | $56,250 |
| BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $56,250 |
| INDEPENDENCE CENTER | $37,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
46 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 11 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $468k 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
- RTRanken Technical College7× · 2019–2025 · $595k · revenue +30%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN7× · 2019–2025 · $595k · revenue +126%- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI7× · 2019–2025 · $595k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- FFFAMILY FORWARD FKA CHILDREN'S HOMEone grant, 2019 · $92k
- UOUNIV OF HEALTHSCIENCES & PHAR STLone grant, 2024 · $84k
- SLST LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSINGone grant, 2020 · $52k
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.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
Lourdes university, rooted in catholic and franciscan traditions, provides a values-centered education that enriches lives and advances academic excellence through the integration of the liberal arts and professional studies.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis University and the most unlike its peers is Deaconess Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 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. 50 of the 96 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 YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S AT HOME SERVICES LLC ↗
- Who funds Ranken Technical College ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St Louis ↗
- Who funds Missouri Council of the Blind ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS ALTENHEIM ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GREAT CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HOME ↗
- Who funds KVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Berges Family Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Tammy Stratman Brown Charities
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 Ballmann Family Private 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.
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.