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The Ballmann Family Private Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$141k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$3.3MHealth$3.2MEducation$2.6MAnimals$834kPhilanthropy$725kFood & Nutrition$595kReligion$439kScience & Tech$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $540k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
$37,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOOD SAMARITAN HOME$140,625
FAMILY FORWARD$93,750
VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION$93,750
THE SALVATION ARMY$93,750
YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$93,750
HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI$93,750
MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER ST LOUIS$93,750
MISSOURI COUNCIL OF THE BLIND$93,750
ST ANDREWS AT HOME SERVICES$93,750
UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES &$93,750
RANKEN TECHNICAL COLLEGE$93,750
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$93,750
BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$56,250
SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY$56,250
INDEPENDENCE CENTER$37,500
02The need
03

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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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GOOD SAMARITAN HOME: $141k → 14%KVC BEHAVIORIAL HEALTHCARE MO INC: $38k → 5%FAMILY FORWARD: $94k → 21%MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $94k → 11%YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $94k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $94k → 11%YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $94k → 11%YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $92k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $86k → 11%YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $86k → 11%YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $84k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $84k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $79k → 11%YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $79k → 11%YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $68k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $68k → 11%ST ANDREWS AT HOME SERVICES: $94k → 11%ST ANDREWS AT HOME SERVICES: $94k → 11%ST ANDREW AT HOME SERVICES: $86k → 11%ST ANDREWS AT HOME SERVICES: $79k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $92k → 21%ST ANDREW AT HOME SERVICES: $92k → 11%ST ANDREW AT HOME SERVICES: $84k → 11%ST ANDREW AT HOME SERVICES: $68k → 11%FAMILY FORWARD: $94k → 11%FAMILY FORWARD: $86k → 11%FAMILY FORWARD: $84k → 11%FAMILY FORWARD: $79k → 11%FAMILY FORWARD: $68k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
MA
IA
IN
OH
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
KS
AR
TN
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 46 repeat orgs$981k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
38

Total granted

$10M
$513k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+12%

Still filing today

54%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $468k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RT
    Ranken Technical College
    7× · 2019–2025 · $595k · revenue +30%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI
    7× · 2019–2025 · $595k · revenue +41%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER ST LOUIS
    7× · 2019–2025 · $595k · revenue +71% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

  • FF
    FAMILY FORWARD FKA CHILDREN'S HOME
    one grant, 2019 · $92k
  • UO
    UNIV OF HEALTHSCIENCES & PHAR STL
    one grant, 2024 · $84k
  • SL
    ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING
    one grant, 2020 · $52k
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.

04Its 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
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
2
Loyola University

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…

Education
3
Lehigh University

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…

Education
4
Xavier University

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…

Education
5
Marquette University

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.

Education
6
John Brown University

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…

Education
7
Benedictine University

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…

Education
8
John Carroll University

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…

Education
9
Lourdes University

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.

Education
10
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
11
University of the South

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…

Education
12
Furman University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis University; 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.
04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 96 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
28/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOOD SAMARITAN HOME: $752,550 · OtherGOOD SAMARITAN HOMEVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $595,450 · OtherVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATIONTHE SALVATION ARMY: $501,700 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYMissouri Council of the Blind: $418,050 · OtherMissouri Council of the BlindINDEPENDENCE CENTER: $238,180 · OtherUNITY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIANITY: $238,180 · OtherST LOUIS ALTENHEIM: $238,180 · OtherGOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $238,180 · OtherDEACONESS FOUNDATION: $200,680 · OtherEPWORTH CHILDRENS HOME: $200,680 · Other+43 more: $1,965,720 · Other+43 moreYOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $595,450 · Human ServicesYOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FO…MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $595,450 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS OF GREAT…ST ANDREW'S AT HOME SERVICES LLC: $595,450 · Human ServicesST ANDREW'S AT HOME SERV…CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $503,950 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY …GOOD SAMARITAN HOME: $140,625 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN HOME+2 more: $108,500 · Human ServicesRanken Technical College: $595,450 · EducationRanken Technical Col…University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St Louis: $423,950 · EducationUniversity of Health…ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $324,000 · EducationST LOUIS UNIVERSITYMIRIAM FOUNDATION: $238,180 · EducationMIRIAM FOUNDATIONBEREA COLLEGE: $238,180 · EducationBEREA COLLEGE+26 more: $304,000 · Education+26 moreSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $595,450 · HealthSHRINERS …THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $309,930 · HealthTHE FOUND…The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children: $60,760 · HealthThe Ranke…HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $595,450 · AnimalsDEACONESS FOUNDATION: $37,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$5,587,550Human Services$2,539,425Education$2,123,760Health$966,140Animals$595,450Housing & Shelter$37,500

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 budgetRanken Technical College: $595,450 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $595,450 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $595,450 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $595,450 over 7y, 33% of budgetST ANDREW'S AT HOME SERVICES LLC: $595,450 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $595,450 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $503,950 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St Louis: $423,950 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMissouri Council of the Blind: $418,050 over 5y, 35% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $324,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $309,930 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetINDEPENDENCE CENTER: $238,180 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetST LOUIS ALTENHEIM: $238,180 over 7y, 12% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $238,180 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetMIRIAM FOUNDATION: $238,180 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $238,180 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT CIRCLE: $167,180 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC: $71,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children: $60,760 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDEACONESS FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME: $37,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMaryville University - St Louis: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWebster University: $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $20,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $18,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFONTBONNE UNIVERSITY: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENDRIX COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST OLAF COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetButler University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tulsa: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDrury University: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOE COLLEGE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTuskegee University: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarian University: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRhodes College: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $3,500 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.

  • Who funds Ranken Technical College ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds ST ANDREW'S AT HOME SERVICES LLC ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • 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 INDEPENDENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS ALTENHEIM ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds MIRIAM FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Commerce Bancshares F…St Louis Community Fo…World Wide Technology…St Louis Community Fo…Edward Jones Foundati…United Way of Greater…Trio Foundation of St…Employees Community F…Berges Family Foundat…Youthbridge Community…The Blackbaud Giving …Tammy Stratman Brown …
Commerce Bancshares FoundationMO26.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Ballmann Family Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ballmann Family Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 96 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home