Indiana · Private foundation
Ball Brothers Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $8.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 113
- Grants FY2024
- 113
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,790,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 69 to 113
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $174M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 26% of the organizations Ball Brothers Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $322k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 105 | $8.2M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 113 | $8.7M | 26% |
| FY2022 | 102 | $9.9M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 95 | $8.5M | 23% |
| FY2020 | 95 | $8.5M | 29% |
| FY2019 | 74 | $7.9M | 32% |
| FY2018 | 69 | $7.7M | 32% |
| FY2017 | 73 | $7.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muncie Community Schools | $3,146,997 | 8 | n/a |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Muncie Indiana Inc | $2,890,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Cardinal Greenway Inc | $2,776,300 | 8 | 50% |
| Ball State University Foundation Inc | $2,200,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Project Leadership Inc | $1,706,000 | 7 | 76% |
| Greater Muncie Indiana Habitat for Humanity Inc | $1,516,000 | 6 | 16% |
| Muncie Boys and Girls Club Inc | $1,410,800 | 8 | 26% |
| Ivy Tech Foundation Inc | $1,370,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Ross Community Center Inc | $1,324,805 | 8 | 59% |
| Cornerstone Center for the Arts Inc | $1,229,785 | 8 | 28% |
Show all 122 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 114 recipients with no EIN on record ($34M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ball Brothers Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 101 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County Inc · George and Frances Ball Foundation · Heart of Indiana United Way Inc · Mutualbank Charitable Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Hamer D & Phyllis C Shafer Foundation Charitable Trust · Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler Foundation Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Muncie Endurathon Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Randolph County Inc · Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital Inc
How this is measured
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About Ball Brothers Foundation
- How much does Ball Brothers Foundation give?
- Ball Brothers Foundation reported 113 grants totaling $8,293,343 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 69 and 113 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Ball Brothers Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (22%), Community Improvement (14%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are Ball Brothers Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Muncie Community Schools ($3.1M), Young Men's Christian Association of Muncie Indiana Inc ($2.9M), Cardinal Greenway Inc ($2.8M).
- Does Ball Brothers Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ball Brothers Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ball Brothers Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County Inc, George and Frances Ball Foundation, Heart of Indiana United Way Inc.
- Where is Ball Brothers Foundation based?
- Ball Brothers Foundation is based in IN.
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