Ballad Health
Johnson City, TN · EIN 61-1771290. Reported 28 grants totalling $4,767,225 to 27 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Ballad Health, by its IRS classification it provides support services within health care (NTEE E19).
- How spread out its giving is. 27 distinct organizations, with 84% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.
- How much its list changes. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $22,000; the smallest was $4,400 and the largest $4,000,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eo Companies | Abingdon, VA | $4,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Town of Jonesborough | Jonesborough, TN | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bipartisan Policy Center Inc | Washington, DC | $67,150 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Milligan University | Milligan, TN | $66,100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hometown Service Coalition | Mountain City, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Niswonger Foundation | Greeneville, TN | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Junior Achievement of Tri-Cities Tnva | Kingsport, TN | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kingsport Chamber Foundation | Kingsport, TN | $20,525 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Adaptoplay | Kingsport, TN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Appalachian Banner Academy | Gray, TN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Coailition for Better Health | Nashville, TN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Greater Kingsport Family Young Mens | Kingsport, TN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Appalachian Mountain Project Access | Johnson City, TN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Blue Plum | Johnson City, TN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Founders Forge | Johnson City, TN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rotary Club of Kingsport Foundation | Kingsport, TN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Cancer Society Inc | Atlanta, GA | $14,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Kingsport Inc | Kingsport, TN | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| East Tennessee Foundation | Knoxville, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Science Hill High School Band Boosters Inc | Johnson City, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Visit Johnson City Foundation Inc | Johnson City, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Barter Foundation Incorporated State Theatre of Virginia | Abingdon, VA | $9,550 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Elizabethton Boys & Girls Club | Elizabethton, TN | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| George L Carter Railroad Musuem Inc | Johnson City, TN | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Johnson City Boys Club Inc | Johnson City, TN | $4,400 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
0 of 27 (0%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- United Way of Southwest Virginia Inc
Facility for childcare: classrooms, kitchen and indoor/outdoor play space - Town of Jonesborough
Jackson Theater - Main Auditorium Yr. 1 of 5 yr. sponsorship - Milligan University
Athletics Program Sponsorship Yr 2 & Focus Wall Signage - Birthplace of Country Music
2024 Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion - Hometown Service Coalition
Replacement of playground equipment at Ralph State Park. - Niswonger Foundation Inc
Professional Development: Learning together.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 19 of 27 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | $55,000 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 2 | $24,500 | $12,250 |
| 2023 | 23 | $4,687,725 | $15,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
84% of its giving went to organizations in Virginia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Virginia.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Ballad Health's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 23 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 311 Princeton Road Suite 1, Johnson City, TN, 37601.
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