Wisconsin · 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.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $37,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $140,625
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 40
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The Ballmann Family Private Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $172k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 33 | $1.7M | 33% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $1.6M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $1.3M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $1.8M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $1.5M | 30% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $1.6M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 40 | $1.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ranken Technical College | $595,450 | 7 | 0% |
| Humane Society of Missouri | $595,450 | 7 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels of Greater St Louis | $595,450 | 7 | 33% |
| St Andrew's at Home Services LLC | $595,450 | 7 | 5% |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $595,450 | 7 | 0% |
| Children's Home Society of Missouri | $503,950 | 6 | 1% |
| The Salvation Army | $501,700 | 6 | n/a |
| University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St Louis | $423,950 | 5 | 0% |
| Missouri Council of the Blind | $418,050 | 5 | 35% |
| St Louis University | $324,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ballmann Family Private Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
Compare The Ballmann Family Private Foundation with peer funders
About The Ballmann Family Private Foundation
- How much does The Ballmann Family Private Foundation give?
- The Ballmann Family Private Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $1,834,375 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 40 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Ballmann Family Private Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (28%), Health (27%), Education (22%).
- Who are The Ballmann Family Private Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Ranken Technical College ($595k), Humane Society of Missouri ($595k), Meals on Wheels of Greater St Louis ($595k).
- Does The Ballmann Family Private Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ballmann Family Private Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ballmann Family Private Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Commerce Bancshares Foundation, St Louis Community Foundation Inc, World Wide Technology Foundation.
- Where is The Ballmann Family Private Foundation based?
- The Ballmann Family Private Foundation is based in WI.
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