Rhode Island · Nonprofit
THE GARY BALLETTO FOUNDATION
THE GARY BALLETTO FOUNDATION (Rhode Island) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,379 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($53,879). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2021
- $11k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $64k
- Net assets
- $2k
What The Gary Balletto Foundation does
Mission
The foundation is dedicated to curing spinal cord injury by funding research and providing therapy with adaptive equipment to members living with paralysis through grants, advocacy and providing services for those who qualify.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Support member therapy & research cures for spinal cord injuries.
$5,216 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $5,216.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $52k to $26k (−50%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $8k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 GARY BALLETTO FOUNDATION’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 GARY BALLETTO FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 GARY BALLETTO FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
84% of THE GARY BALLETTO FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $11k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from Rhode Island funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like THE GARY BALLETTO FOUNDATION
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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE GARY BALLETTO FOUNDATION?
- THE GARY BALLETTO FOUNDATION (Rhode Island) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,379 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($53,879). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE GARY BALLETTO FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $64,379 in grants to THE GARY BALLETTO FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GARY BALLETTO FOUNDATION?
- THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $53,879 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GARY BALLETTO FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2018–2021), and the filings of 3 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