Illinois · Private foundation
G Carl Ball Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $4.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 37
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $32M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations G Carl Ball Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 40 | $4.0M | 53% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $3.3M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $4.3M | 24% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $3.8M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $2.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Men's Christian Association of Northwestern Dupage County | $4,800,000 | 5 | 24% |
| The Morton Arboretum | $3,160,000 | 5 | 3% |
| The Orme School | $2,100,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Thomas Jefferson School | $1,000,000 | 1 | 24% |
| Limestone University | $275,000 | 3 | 0% |
| College of Dupage Foundation | $260,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Thresholds | $215,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Conservation Foundation | $150,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Seed Your Future Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 21% |
| Cal Poly Corporation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
G Carl Ball Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Dupage Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About G Carl Ball Family Foundation
- How much does G Carl Ball Family Foundation give?
- G Carl Ball Family Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $4,097,866 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does G Carl Ball Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (39%), Education (22%), Environment (19%).
- Who are G Carl Ball Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Young Men's Christian Association of Northwestern Dupage County ($4.8M), The Morton Arboretum ($3.2M), The Orme School ($2.1M).
- Does G Carl Ball Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does G Carl Ball Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as G Carl Ball Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dupage Community Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation.
- Where is G Carl Ball Family Foundation based?
- G Carl Ball Family Foundation is based in IL.
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