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The Fred S Balsam Sr Charitable Tr at a glance

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The Fred S Balsam Sr Charitable Tr

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.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$127kCommunity Improvement$6kRecreation & Sports$5kCivil Rights$4kHuman Services$3kHealth$2kEducation$500International$235Other$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$550
Median grant
5
States reached
$301k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAKEFIELD VALLEY BIBLE CHURCH$8,050
INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP MINISTRIES$8,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$550
ETHNOS 360$550
URBAN PROMISE$550
SALVATION ARMY$200
ALPHA PREGNANCY CENTER$200
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 29% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP MINISTRIES: $8k → 9%HUEBNER DENTAL: $15k → 16%CENTRAL UNION MISSION: $200 → 14%SOUTHFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $500 → 8%CHRISTIAN WORKERS FELLOWSHIP: $500 → 15%CHRISTIAN WORKER FELLOWSHIP: $200 → 16%GIDEON BIBLE DISTRIBUTIONS: $200 → 14%MINISTRY ALLIANCE: $650 → 10%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $200 → 21%CHILDREN'S ORGAN TRANSPLANT ASSOC: $200 → 18%THE KATIE JOHNSON FELLOWSHIP: $200 → 9%URBAN PROMISE: $3k → 12%WAKEFIELD VALLEY BIBLE CHURCH: $31k → 6%ROCKVILLE PREGNANCY CLINIC: $400 → 8%SALEM CHILDREN'S TRUST: $200 → 18%CHRISTIAN WORKERS FELLOWSHIP: $500 → 15%MINISTRY ALLIANCE: $600 → 10%THE TULGEY WOOD: $200 → 9%URBAN PROMISE: $1k → 12%WAKEFIELD VALLEY BIBLE CHURCH: $30k → 6%ROCKVILLE WOMEM'S CENTER: $100 → 8%MARYLAND SALEM: $200 → 18%CHRISTIAN WORKERS FELLOWSHIP: $400 → 15%MINISTRY ALLIANCE: $600 → 10%URBAN PROMISE: $650 → 12%WAKEFIELD VALLEY BIBLE CHURCH: $7k → 6%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $600 → 8%CHRISTIAN WORKERS FELLOWSHIP: $200 → 15%MINISTRY ALLIANCE: $600 → 10%URBAN PROMISE: $600 → 12%WAKEFIELD VALLEY BIBLE CHURCH: $5k → 6%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $600 → 8%CHRISTIAN WORKERS FELLOWSHIP: $200 → 15%MINISTRY ALLIANCE: $550 → 10%URBAN PROMISE: $550 → 12%WAKEFIELD VALLEY BIBLE CHURCH: $10k → 6%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $600 → 8%MINISTRY ALLIANCE: $200 → 10%URBAN PROMISE: $500 → 12%WAKEFIELD VALLEY BIBLE CHURCH: $8k → 6%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $600 → 8%URBAN PROMISE: $350 → 12%WAKEFIELD VALLEY BIBLE CHURCH: $7k → 6%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $550 → 8%WAKEFIELD VALLEY BIBLE CHURCH: $5k → 6%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $550 → 8%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $550 → 8%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $500 → 8%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
MI
NY
IN
PA
NJ
CO
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$138k · 12 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
14

Total granted

$138k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
-2%

Still filing today

50%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
ReligionYouth DevelopmentInternationalHealthHousing & ShelterCivil RightsOther
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

  • FL
    FRONTIER LABOURERS FOR CHRIST
    2× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +35%
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    8× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +120%
  • MA
    Ministry Alliance
    6× · 2018–2024 · $3k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue -14%
  • SC
    SOUTHFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $500
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
Mission Partners for Christ Aka Community Health Initiatives
Community Improvement
2
Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion
3
Message to All Nations Man

To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost

Human Services
4
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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5
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
6
Jubal Band Ministries

Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.

Religion
7
United Saints Worldwide

United Saints is committed to taking the Gospel to both major cities and the most remote regionsreaching places like the Amazon Jungle and beyondwith the power and love of Jesus.

Religion
8
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
9
Jesus in Vietnam Ministries
Religion
10
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

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11
Global Faith Network
Human Services
12
Face to Faith Ministry

Our mission is to make disciples of jesus christ by engaging indigenous pastors around the world. our vision is to train pastors and their congregants to share the gospel in a friendly, non-denominational approach across all ethnicities,…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fellowship of Christian Athletes; the most unlike its peers is Katie Johnson Fellowship Inc. 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

13 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. 13 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WAKEFIELD VALLEY BIBLE CHURCH: $102,950 · OtherWAKEFIELD VALLEY BIBLE CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientURBAN PROMISE: $6,449 · Other+13 more: $10,200 · Other+13 moreFRONTIER LABOURERS FOR CHRIST: $11,000 · ReligionAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $500 · Religion+1 more: $200 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP MINISTRIES INC: $8,000 · International+1 more: $35 · InternationalFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $4,550 · Youth DevelopmentMinistry Alliance: $3,200 · Youth DevelopmentTHE ALPHA PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $600 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $600 · HealthCENTRAL UNION MISSION: $600 · Housing & ShelterKATIE JOHNSON FELLOWSHIP INC: $200 · Civil Rights
Other$134,599Religion$11,700International$8,035Youth Development$7,750Health$1,200Housing & Shelter$600Civil Rights$200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRONTIER LABOURERS FOR CHRIST: $11,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP MINISTRIES INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $4,550 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMinistry Alliance: $3,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALPHA PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL UNION MISSION: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND SALEM CHILDREN'S TRUST INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKATIE JOHNSON FELLOWSHIP INC: $200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $35 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 FRONTIER LABOURERS FOR CHRIST ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds Ministry Alliance ↗
  • Who funds THE ALPHA PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL UNION MISSION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MARYLAND SALEM CHILDREN'S TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds COTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association ↗
  • Who funds KATIE JOHNSON FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA8.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Fred S Balsam Sr Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fred S Balsam Sr Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 27 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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