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David a Ball Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $206k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BULLOCH ACADEMY | $120,000 |
| FOSTERING BULLOCH | $60,000 |
| GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT | $30,000 |
| GSU CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $22,500 |
| ATHLETES IN ACTION | $13,000 |
| YOUTH CAREER CAMP INC | $10,000 |
| OGEECHEE AREA HOSPICE | $10,000 |
| CURE FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER | $10,000 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS IN CHRIST | $10,000 |
| HEARTS AND HANDS | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SE GA | $10,000 |
| THE DANIELLE COLLINS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FREEDOM ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BABulloch Academy Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $295k · revenue +49%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BULLOCH COUNTY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $251k · revenue +7%
- GSGeorgia Southern University Foundation Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $183k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- LOLAMAR O BALL RAPTOR CENTERone grant, 2017 · $25k
- ASAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -2%
- AOACADEMY OF HOPE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +77%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization offers social services as a compassionate outreach to abused, neglected and dependent children and families in need. the organization strives to positively impact the lives of children, families and all those who receive…
To spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ by preaching events and mission events in the United States and across the world.
Christian campus fellowship exists to show college students the love, grace, and truth found in jesus.
Promote gospel of jesus christ
Rebuilding lives in christ - we are a faith-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that shelters homeless men and provides them with food, clothing and life-skills training. the mission provides the assistance to them at no cost and we…
Oconee Christian Academy exists to glorify God by nurturing students and equipping them to fulfill God's unique purpose for their lives.
The foundation is a non-profit organzation that aids the university in promoting and cultural welfare, developing and expanding facilities, and facilitating studies, research, and other academic persuits.
Propagate the gospel of jesus christ through preaching at established churches; establishing new churchs, christian schools, and orphanages; supporting foreign missionary out-reach; provide training for pastors and lay-persons
Uniting believers and transforming lives through christian activities. to cultivate unity among believers, stir up passion for the name and purpose of god, and promote understanding of what makes us christians.
The mission of the South Georgia State College Foundation, Inc. is to help transform and enhance the lives of our diverse student population.
The organization's mission is to raise and invest funds to support the reach georgia program.
To promote the education of children in pre-K through twelfth grade in a Christian atmosphere.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ogeechee Technical College Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Averitt Center for the Arts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 73 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Bulloch Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BULLOCH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS IN CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds OGEECHEE AREA HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds OGEECHEE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN HEARTS COMMUNITY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDO EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY OF HOPE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Btc Community Outreach Inc · Jr Hendley Foundation Inc · William Warren Ball Family Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization David a Ball Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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