· Private foundation
Directed Balloun Family 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 $10k39 grants · $185k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $285k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| CAPE FEAR ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| WESTMINSTER SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| SKIDMORE COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| PARK PRIDE | $20,000 |
| TRYALL FUND | $20,000 |
| NOURISHNC | $10,000 |
| PATH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EDEN VILLAGE OF WILMINGTON | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $10,000 |
| ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA | $10,000 |
| FAMILIES FIRST | $10,000 |
| PIEDMONT PARK CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
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, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 13 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k 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
- LWLOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM6× · 2019–2025 · $114k · revenue +3%
- CFCape Fear Academy6× · 2019–2025 · $95k · revenue +70%
- SCSKIDMORE COLLEGE3× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- ASATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAone grant, 2024 · $100k
- HDHISTORIC DISTRICT DEV CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k
Teach for America Incone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue -18%
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.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
Facilitate networking among hospitals
Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.
Operation of a public charter school.
The mission of The Charlotte Center is to help our community flourish. We accomplish our mission by bringing people together to explore community life together through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Our commitment is to provide the individual support, meaningful training and employment services to people to remove barriers and close skill gaps so that individuals build brighter futures.
Horizons Atlanta is a tuition-free, intensive, six-week summer academic and enrichment program that supports students from under-served communities over the course of their academic careers.
Junior achievement is the world's largest organization dedicated to educating private and public school students in grades k-12 about entrepreneurship, workforce readiness, and financial literacy, through experiential, hands-on programs.
Wake county smart start invests in young children, their families, and a connected early childhood system that supports and prepares them for school and life ahead.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Children's Shelter Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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 39 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 21% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 85 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 LOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Cape Fear Academy ↗
- Who funds PARK PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds The Westminster Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CUCALORUS FILM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds TREES ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds PATH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Cape Fear Trees ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AGAPE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LAKE BURTON CIVIC ASSOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tryall Fund Jamaica ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds NourishNC Inc ↗
- Who funds Eden Village of Wilmington ↗
- Who funds Arts Council of Wilmington and New Hanover County ↗
- Who funds PROPEL ATL INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUDY HALL INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRIS 180 INC ↗
- Who funds DREAMS OF WILMINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS MAKING IT INC ↗
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: The Landfall Foundation Inc · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · The True North Foundation Co Amy Brown North · The Lagomarsino Foundation · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · The Rudisill Family Foundation · Jeffrey Schrager & Anne York Family Foundation · The Eshelman 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 Directed Balloun Family 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% 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.