· Private foundation
Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $149k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $586k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LELAND TOWNSHIP PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,000,000 |
| INLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOC | $530,000 |
| FISHTOWN PRESERVATION SOCIETY | $500,000 |
| CENTRAL CARIBBEAN MARINE INSTITUTE | $186,359 |
| MINNETRISTA CULTURAL FDN | $100,000 |
| INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $100,000 |
| BALL STATE UNIVERSITY FDN | $100,000 |
| VFW FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CORNERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $50,000 |
| INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE | $40,000 |
| MUNCIE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $36,204 |
| LEELANAU COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTER | $35,000 |
| LEELANAU OUTDOOR CENTER | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $360k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 33% of the giving stays in IN; by stated purpose, 31%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OAOLD ART BUILDING9× · 2017–2025 · $3.1M · revenue ×13 · 45% of their budget
- ISINLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +163% · 33% of their budget
- BSBall State University Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +49%
Funded once
- CCCENTRAL CARIBBEAN MARINE INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2017 · $175k · revenue -1%
- YYMCAone grant, 2017 · $100k
- LLLAKE LEELANAU LAKE ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $55k · revenue +101% · 29% of their budget
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
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.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
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 engage and inspire, encouraging stewardship of wildlife and water.
How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OLD ART BUILDING ↗
- Who funds INLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Ball State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FISHTOWN PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MINNETRISTA CULTURAL FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL GREENWAY 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 MUNCIE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Leelanau Historical Society ↗
- 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 NORTH MANITOU LIGHT KEEPERS INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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