· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $346k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $841k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA | $2,000,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $322,941 |
| ORME SCHOOL | $300,000 |
| BR RYALL YMCA | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $210,000 |
| MORTON ARBORETUM | $181,000 |
| SEED YOUR FUTURE | $150,000 |
| CAL POLY | $100,000 |
| GLEN ELLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| THE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| COLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| DUPAGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| AHS | $45,000 |
| DUPAGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWESTERN DUPAGE COUNTY5× · 2020–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +125%
- TMTHE MORTON ARBORETUM5× · 2020–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +100%
- COCOLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $260k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +0%
- GHGE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $100k
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS (SPALDING TREES ETC)one grant, 2020 · $44k
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.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
To educate men & women to lead responsible lives by means of a curriculum grounded in liberal arts learning and complemented and extended by professional and practical experience, through the total academic and co-curricular experience,…
We cultivate the power of plants to sustain and enrich life
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is College of Dupage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Montgomery Botanical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 80 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWESTERN DUPAGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds The Orme School ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIMESTONE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE THRESHOLDS ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEED YOUR FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds CAL POLY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PARTNRSHP FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds Educare of West DuPage ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Glen Ellyn Historical Society ↗
- Who funds OPENLANDS ↗
- Who funds CRISIS TEXT LINE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FOREST PRESERVE DISTRICT OF DUPAGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GLEN ELLYN YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — 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
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 G Carl Ball Family Foundation 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- Montgomery Botanical Center — 0% of income from government
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.