· Private foundation
Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY17–24, $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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.
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 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
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
- OAOLD ART BUILDING8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue ×13 · 45% of their budget
- BSBall State University Foundation Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +49%
- ISINLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +100% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
- CCCENTRAL CARIBBEAN MARINE INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2017 · $175k · revenue -1%
- MCMUNCIE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -47%
- YYMCAone grant, 2017 · $100k
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 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.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
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…
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
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.
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.
To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special
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.
The organization's mission is to inspire appreciation and celebrate the cultures and ecology of the vast finger lakes region.
The mission of gtrlc is to protect significant natural, scenic and farm lands and advance land stewardship now and for future generations.
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 field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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 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.
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 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.
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.
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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