Indiana · Private foundation
Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 14 | $2.8M | 21% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $3.4M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $1.8M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $2.5M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $1.9M | 22% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $2.8M | 17% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $1.9M | 5% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $1.5M | 36% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Art Building | $3,057,500 | 9 | 45% |
| Inland Seas Education Association | $2,058,375 | 9 | 33% |
| Ball State University Foundation Inc | $1,854,924 | 8 | 2% |
| Fishtown Preservation Society Inc | $1,750,000 | 5 | 38% |
| Traverse Area Recreation & Transportation Trails Inc | $1,275,000 | 8 | 15% |
| Leelanau Conservancy | $1,250,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Interlochen Center for the Arts | $1,050,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Minnetrista Cultural Foundationinc | $854,325 | 9 | 2% |
| Indiana Youth Institute Inc | $360,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Cardinal Greenway Inc | $325,000 | 3 | 11% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Ball Brothers Foundation · George and Frances Ball Foundation · The Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Norbert and Paula Gits Family Foundation · Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler Foundation Inc · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Barton J Ingraham & Gail G Ingraham Foundation · Hamer D & Phyllis C Shafer Foundation Charitable Trust · Hp Foundation
How this is measured
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About Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inc
- How much does Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inc give?
- Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $2,765,563 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Recreation & Sports (22%), Environment (17%).
- Who are Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Old Art Building ($3.1M), Inland Seas Education Association ($2.1M), Ball State University Foundation Inc ($1.9M).
- Does Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation, Ball Brothers Foundation, George and Frances Ball Foundation.
- Where is Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inc based?
- Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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