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Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0167% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$5.7MEnvironment$2.9MEducation$2.0MRecreation & Sports$325kHuman Services$320kScience & Tech$175kOther$5.7M
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $109k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $474k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.8M
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEELANAU COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTER$2,035,000
Individual grant recipient$500,000
TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION AND TRANSPORT$250,000
CENTRAL CARIBBEAN MARINE INSTITUTE$173,599
MINNETRISTA CULTURAL FDN$100,000
INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS$100,000
CARDINAL GREENWAY INC$50,000
CORNERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS$50,000
INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE$40,000
INLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOC$30,000
LEELANAU OUTDOOR CENTER$26,085
TRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$13,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $320k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE: $40k → 16%INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE: $40k → 16%INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE: $40k → 16%INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE: $40k → 16%INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE: $40k → 16%INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE: $40k → 16%INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE: $40k → 16%INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE: $40k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 33% of the giving stays in IN; read by stated purpose it is 31% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.5% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16M · 21 repeat orgs$665k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
13

Total granted

$16M
$665k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+57%

Still filing today

76%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesScience & TechRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • OA
    OLD ART BUILDING
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue ×13 · 45% of their budget
  • BS
    Ball State University Foundation Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +49%
  • IS
    INLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +100% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

  • CC
    CENTRAL CARIBBEAN MARINE INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $175k · revenue -1%
  • MC
    MUNCIE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -47%
  • Y
    YMCA
    one grant, 2017 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Central Indiana Land Trust Incorporated

The central indiana land trust, inc. preserves the best of central indiana's natural areas, protecting plants and animals, so hoosiers can experience the wonder of the state's natural heritage.

Environment
2
Michigan Legacy Art Park

Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.

Arts & Culture
3
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
4
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc

The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.

5
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
6
Legacy Land Conservancy

Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever

Environment
7
Institute for Conservation Leadership

To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.

Community Improvement
8
Six Rivers Land Conservancy Fka Six Rivers Regional Land Conservancy

To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special

Environment
9
Fort Wayne Museum of Art Inc

The fort wayne museum of art will collect, preserve and present american and related art to engage and educate broad and diverse audiences throughout the region and add value to their lives.

Arts & Culture
10
Finger Lakes Cultural & Natural History Museum

The organization's mission is to inspire appreciation and celebrate the cultures and ecology of the vast finger lakes region.

Arts & Culture
11
Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy

The mission of gtrlc is to protect significant natural, scenic and farm lands and advance land stewardship now and for future generations.

Environment
12
Visit Lenawee

To promote lenawee county as a destination providing contemporary amenities to transient guests in a historical and cultural setting for the economic benefit of the community.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leelanau Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Baylor University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr15%4%5–10yr16%0%10–20yr14%25%20–35yr11%50%35–55yr25%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr16%0%10–20yr14%36%20–35yr11%43%35–55yr25%22%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
13%
1,112/8,896

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.

05the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 34 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $1,800,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC — $1,275,000 · OtherTRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTA…CENTRAL CARIBBEAN MARINE INSTITUTE — $1,131,449 · OtherCENTRAL CARIBBEAN MARINE INSTITUTEMINNETRISTA CULTURAL FOUNDATIONINC — $754,325 · OtherMINNETRISTA CULTURAL FOUNDATIONINCCORNERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $260,000 · OtherLEELANAU OUTDOOR CENTER — $201,970 · Other+9 more — $302,425 · OtherOLD ART BUILDING — $3,022,500 · Arts & CultureOLD ART BUILDINGFISHTOWN PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $1,250,000 · Arts & CultureFISHTOWN PRESERVATION SOCIETY INCINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $950,000 · Arts & CultureINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS+6 more — $490,250 · Arts & Culture+6 moreINLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $1,528,375 · EnvironmentINLAND SEAS EDUCATI…LEELANAU CONSERVANCY — $1,250,000 · EnvironmentLEELANAU CONSERVANC…+2 more — $100,000 · EnvironmentBall State University Foundation Inc — $1,754,924 · EducationBall State Un…LEELANAU CHILDREN'S CENTER — $200,000 · EducationLEELANAU CHIL…+1 more — $50,000 · EducationCARDINAL GREENWAY INC — $325,000 · Recreation & SportsINDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE INC — $320,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL CARIBBEAN MARINE INSTITUTE INC — $175,000 · Science & Tech
Other$5,725,169Arts & Culture$5,712,750Environment$2,878,375Education$2,004,924Recreation & Sports$325,000Human Services$320,000Science & Tech$175,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOLD ART BUILDING — $3,022,500 over 8y, 45% of budgetBall State University Foundation Inc — $1,754,924 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetINLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $1,528,375 over 8y, 33% of budgetTRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC — $1,275,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetLEELANAU CONSERVANCY — $1,250,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetFISHTOWN PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $1,250,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $950,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMINNETRISTA CULTURAL FOUNDATIONINC — $754,325 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetCARDINAL GREENWAY INC — $325,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetINDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE INC — $320,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetCORNERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $260,000 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetLEELANAU CHILDREN'S CENTER — $200,000 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetCENTRAL CARIBBEAN MARINE INSTITUTE INC — $175,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetMUNCIE CIVIC THEATRE — $150,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetLeelanau Historical Society — $124,250 over 4y, 22% of budgetMUNCIE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $100,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetTRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A TRAVERSE CITY PHILHARMONIC — $71,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetLAKE LEELANAU LAKE ASSOCIATION — $55,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRED-TAIL LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $45,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetINDIANA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNORTH MANITOU LIGHT KEEPERS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetDELAWARE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 15% of budget
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 OLD ART BUILDING
  • Who funds Ball State University Foundation Inc
  • Who funds INLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC
  • Who funds LEELANAU CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds FISHTOWN PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
  • Who funds MINNETRISTA CULTURAL FOUNDATIONINC
  • Who funds CARDINAL GREENWAY INC
  • Who funds INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
  • Who funds LEELANAU CHILDREN'S CENTER
  • Who funds CENTRAL CARIBBEAN MARINE INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds MUNCIE CIVIC THEATRE
  • Who funds Leelanau Historical Society
  • Who funds MUNCIE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds TRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A TRAVERSE CITY PHILHARMONIC
  • Who funds LAKE LEELANAU LAKE ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds RED-TAIL LAND CONSERVANCY INC
  • Who funds INDIANA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds NORTH MANITOU LIGHT KEEPERS INC
  • Who funds DELAWARE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Grand Traverse Regional Community FoundationMI24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Edmund F and Virginia B Ball 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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