Utah · Private foundation
Ballard Miller 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.
- $350k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 68
- Grants FY2025
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 56
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $403k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Ballard Miller Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 61 | $329k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 54 | $350k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 55 | $196k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 56 | $194k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $187k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 55 | $108k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $90k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 43 | $37k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Utah | $162,650 | 8 | n/a |
| Volunteers of America Utah | $110,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Young Women's Christian Association of Utah | $95,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The International Dark-Sky Association Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 1% |
| University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc | $51,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Maliheh Free Clinic | $49,000 | 7 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $48,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Phillips Exeter Academy | $46,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Oklahoma City University | $46,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Road Home | $40,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($495k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ballard Miller Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Kanter Family Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Katherine W Dumke & Ezekiel R Dumke Jr Foundation · Janet Q Lawson Foundation · Cumming Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ballard Miller Foundation
- How much does Ballard Miller Foundation give?
- Ballard Miller Foundation reported 68 grants totaling $349,840 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 56 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ballard Miller Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Arts & Culture (12%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Ballard Miller Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: University of Utah ($163k), Volunteers of America Utah ($110k), Young Women's Christian Association of Utah ($95k).
- Does Ballard Miller Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ballard Miller Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ballard Miller Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, The Community Foundation of Utah, Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation.
- Where is Ballard Miller Foundation based?
- Ballard Miller Foundation is based in UT.
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