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Dale H Ballard Jr Family 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.

$114k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
18%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$49,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 11
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$985k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Dale H Ballard Jr Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPublic BenefitEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$114k29%
FY202411$97k18%
FY20239$103k0%
FY202210$111k40%
FY20216$105k17%
FY202011$115kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$232kReligion$219kHealth$101kHuman Services$45kYouth Development$14kPublic Benefit$12kArts & Culture$10kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Dale H Ballard Jr Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hirsche Smiles Foundation$51,00067%
Courage Reins$38,00051%
The Center for Women and Children in Crisis$26,00060%
Western Wyoming College Foundation$20,00012%
Citizens Against Physical and Sexual Abuse$9,00040%
Common Ground Outdoor Adventures$8,00041%
Utah Honor Flight$7,00040%
Happy Factory Inc$7,00063%
Kids on the Move Inc$7,00020%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$3,00010%
Project Strong Inc$3,0001n/a
Utah Youth Village$2,00010%
Friends for Sight$2,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($462k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dale H Ballard Jr Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHirsche Smiles Foundation: $51,000 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetCourage Reins: $38,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetThe Center for Women and Children in Crisis: $26,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWestern Wyoming College Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCitizens Against Physical and Sexual Abuse: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCommon Ground Outdoor Adventures: $8,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUtah Honor Flight: $7,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHappy Factory Inc: $7,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetKids on the Move Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Youth Village: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends for Sight: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Ashton Family Foundation · Thom & Gail Williamsen Family Foundation · The Gibney Family Foundation Inc · DME Foundation · The Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation · The Miner Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Dale H Ballard Jr Family Foundation

How much does Dale H Ballard Jr Family Foundation give?
Dale H Ballard Jr Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $114,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Dale H Ballard Jr Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Religion (34%), Health (16%).
Who are Dale H Ballard Jr Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Hirsche Smiles Foundation ($51k), Courage Reins ($38k), The Center for Women and Children in Crisis ($26k).
Does Dale H Ballard Jr Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dale H Ballard Jr Family 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 Dale H Ballard Jr Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sorenson Legacy Foundation, George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, The Ashton Family Foundation.
Where is Dale H Ballard Jr Family Foundation based?
Dale H Ballard Jr Family Foundation is based in UT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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