Virginia · Nonprofit
THE BALM IN GILEAD INC
THE BALM IN GILEAD INC (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $938,780 to it, the largest being AARP ($370,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $939k
- Net assets
- $644k
What The Balm in Gilead Inc does
Mission
Build the capacity of faith communities to deliver services that contribute to the elimination of health disparties. Develops educational and training programs specifically designed to establish sustainable, intergrated systems of public health and faith principles.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The southeast diabetes faith initiative program is a 5 state faith based project designed to expand access and utilization of the cdcs prevent t2 program. Local faith partners host, support and encourage communities and individuals to live healthier in mind, body and spirit.
$15,158 spent$50,000 earned by the program3% of program spendingThe health church 2030 initiative is a faith based health education and training program relating to health disparities affecting people of african descent.
$567,384 spent$181,292 earned by the program97% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $582,542.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.5M to $1.3M (−48%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 88% · 2019 83% · 2020 71% · 2021 72% · 2022 37% · 2023 36% · 2024 19% · 2025 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of THE BALM IN GILEAD INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (72% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Drpernessa Seele
Founder & CEO
Board chair
Drbarbra L Shaw
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $20k → $71k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE BALM IN GILEAD INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE BALM IN GILEAD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE BALM IN GILEAD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 58% · 2022 77% · 2023 91% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of THE BALM IN GILEAD INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
THE BALM IN GILEAD INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE BALM IN GILEAD INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 369 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE BALM IN GILEAD INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$11.8M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE BALM IN GILEAD INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
23% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BALM IN GILEAD INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE BALM IN GILEAD INC?
- THE BALM IN GILEAD INC (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $938,780 to it, the largest being AARP ($370,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BALM IN GILEAD INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $938,780 in grants to THE BALM IN GILEAD INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BALM IN GILEAD INC?
- AARP is the largest funder on record, with $370,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BALM IN GILEAD INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing