· Private foundation
Ts & Juanita Ballance 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $328k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $302k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $70,000 |
| GOD'S SHELTER OF LOVE | $65,413 |
| MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY | $60,000 |
| RICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $56,151 |
| DEATUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WEBSTER CANTRELL HALL | $49,500 |
| OLD KINGS ORCHARD COMMUNITY CENTER | $40,000 |
| MCKENDREE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN INN | $20,000 |
| WATER STREET MISSION | $20,000 |
| MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $20,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RETT SYNDROME FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ENCORE DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES | $15,000 |
| MACON RESOURCES INC | $15,000 |
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, $273k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +18% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
- RCRICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $903k · revenue +50%
- UWUNITED WAY OF DECATUR AND MID IL7× · 2018–2025 · $183k · revenue +39%
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN INN6× · 2018–2025 · $171k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- DCDECATUR-MACON COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES CORPone grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue +11%
- ULUCP LAND OF LINCOLNone grant, 2018 · $30k
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ILLINOISone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -11%
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.
Decatur cooperative ministry helps families facing homelessness settle into safe, stable homes and build healthy lives filled with peace, hope and opportunity.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
Facility providing services and wellness for elderly in decatur and macon county, illinois
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Dane county parent council changes the lives of underserved children and families through education and supportive services.
The foundation encourages, prudently manages and distributes charitable contributions to improve the quality of life of decatur county residents, now and in the future.
Children's advocates for change was organized to improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and…
Improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes in public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and community outreach.
To support social services in decatur county.
Provide housing for the needy
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Decatur and Mid Il and the most unlike its peers is God's Shelter of Love. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 34. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 62 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 MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEBSTER-CANTRELL HALL ↗
- Who funds McKendree University ↗
- Who funds DECATUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DECATUR AND MID IL ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN INN ↗
- Who funds GOD'S SHELTER OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois ↗
- Who funds International Rett Syndrome Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DECATUR INC ↗
- Who funds DECATUR HOUSE OF PRAYER ↗
- Who funds OLD KINGS ORCHARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KEMMERER VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds MERIDIAN AG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENCORE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds DECATUR-MACON COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES CORP ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIELAND SERVICE COORDINATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds MACON RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds BABY TALK INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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 Community Foundation of Macon County · United Way of Decatur and Mid Il · Andreas Foundation · John Ullrich Foundation Trust Busey Trust Co - Trustee · James Millikin Trust A · The Erwin and Linda Arends Foundation · Amherst F Hardy Foundation · Henry M Staley Declaration of Charit Tr D/B/A Staley Family Foundation · Howard G Buffett Foundation · Edward Whinnery Trust · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · The National Association for the Exchange of Industrial Resources Inc
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 Ts & Juanita Ballance 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.
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.
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