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George and Frances Ball Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$14MArts & Culture$12MHuman Services$3.2MYouth Development$2.8MPhilanthropy$1.8MCommunity Improvement$1.5MHealth$1.3MHousing & Shelter$954kOther$0
02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

Each cell is that theme’s share of the year’s giving · ⚡ ringed cells mark a flagged jump.

03FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $385k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+6 grants · $3.1M
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$90M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MINNETRISTA CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC$1,110,000
MUNCIE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS$729,423
BALL STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$400,000
URBAN LIGHT COMMUNITY CHURCH$300,000
HEART OF INDIANA UNITED WAY$291,500
UNITED DAY CARE CENTER OF DE CO$250,000
YMCA OF MUNCIE$219,241
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MUNCIE$175,000
MUNCIE INNOVATION CONNECTOR INC$158,550
IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE MUNCIE$92,950
CORNERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS$90,000
MUNCIE CIVIC THEATRE$89,397
GREATER MUNCIE IN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$85,000
PROJECT LEADERSHIP INC$80,000
THE NATURE CONVSERVANCY IN INDIANA$70,000
02The need
04

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.

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.

03Your edge

The orgs you fund vs the ones you don’t

Your grantees look like the field they sit in, better on some measures and worse on others.

Against comparable nonprofits nearby you don't fund, the organizations you back are better on fragile rate and worse on net asset growth. 72% of those you fund carry a fragility flag, against 76% of the comparable nonprofits nearby you don't fund.

The kind of organization you back

78% of the organizations you back live mainly on donations, against 64% of the comparable nonprofits nearby you don’t fund. 28% of the ones you pick are financially resilient, against 22% of that field, and fewer show the warning signs below.

What they work on

  • Arts & Culture17% vs 7%
  • Community Improvement11% vs 5%

The nearby nonprofits you don’t fund are concentrated in Religion, Health.

How they hold up

  • Run recurring deficits53% vs 35%
  • Burning through reserves19% vs 12%
  • Less than a month of cash6% vs 17%
  • Lean on a single income source44% vs 59%
you fund (36) you don’t (1071)· share of each group
You fund (36)You don’t (1071)
Median size (revenue)$1.3M$1.2M
Operating margin5%6%
Financially fragile72%76%

Comparison vs unfunded, size/cause-matched nonprofits in your county. Association, not proof of cause.

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$41M · 69 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

69 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

Of your 69 multi-year relationships, 16 repeat the same amount every year (30% of multi-year dollars), the pattern of a standing commitment. The rest vary year to year. Grant terms aren’t stated in the filing; this is inferred from the payment pattern.

You also report $1.5Mapproved for future payment (Form 990-PF, Part XV) — grants already committed but not yet paid, a forward pledge the current-year ledger doesn’t show.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
30

Total granted

$41M
$709k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+1%

Still filing today

59%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $326k 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
EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & 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

  • MC
    MINNETRISTA CULTURAL FOUNDATIONINC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $9.1M · revenue +10% · 27% of their budget
  • BS
    Ball State University Foundation Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.3M · revenue +49%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MUNCIE INDIANA INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • HE
    Hoosier Environmental Council Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $175k · revenue +219%
  • AC
    ALBANY COMMUNITY LIBRARY
    one grant, 2017 · $53k
  • WC
    Wes-Del Community Schools
    one grant, 2023 · $50k

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

case studies

Two relationships, up close

One you funded repeatedly and one you funded once, each traced through its own filings and the public record.

MC

MINNETRISTA CULTURAL FOUNDATIONINC

Conviction

Backed across eight grants, 2017–2024

The George and Frances Ball Foundation has funded Minnetrista Cultural Foundation 8 times between 2017 and 2024, committing $9,095,000 in total — representing approximately 22% of the organization's revenue across those years. Over that period, Minnetrista's revenue grew 10%, and the organization continued operating its museum with collections focused on regional art, history, and culture, running youth arts education programs, and providing scholarships to 47 students pursuing careers in music, dance, theater, and visual arts through its Arts Scholarship Program.

8× · 2017–2024
Funded
$9.1M
You committed
27%
Peak share of budget
+10%
Their revenue since
HE

Hoosier Environmental Council Inc

Funded once · graduated

Funded once, grew substantially since

The George and Frances Ball Foundation made a single $175,000 grant to Hoosier Environmental Council in 2017, which represented approximately 19% of the organization's revenue in that period. Since that grant, the organization's revenue has grown 219%, and it has gone on to engage 25,000 constituents through advocacy campaigns, launch a statewide water quality monitoring program, train 150 community members in environmental science and policy, and secure changes to state regulations affecting air and water quality standards.

When you stepped in · 2017
$939k
their revenue
$175k= 19% of it
once
Latest filing · 2025
$3.0M+219%
grown on its own, no further grants
Since · what they did next

Engaged 25,000 constituents through environmental advocacy campaigns and community outreach initiatives.

projects.propublica.org

Trajectories are each organization’s own subsequent IRS filings; milestones are from the public record, linked to source. Revenue is the organization’s whole income from every source, not a return on these grants: we date what happened after a grant, and do not claim the grant caused it.

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
Muncie-Delaware County Chamber of Commerce

To be an action-oriented, visionary organization which will stimulate progress, foster economic growth and enhance individual opportunity to achieve a high quality of life for everyone.

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2
Muncie Sports Commission Inc

The muncie sports commission exists to attract, create, host, and support sporting events and recreational opportunities for delaware county, indiana.

Recreation & Sports
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
4
Indiana Innovation Council Inc

Promote and educate indiana residents on the state's economic success and positive gains.

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5
Perry County Development Corp

Promote development in Perry County, Indiana

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6
Community Action of East Central Indiana

To provide education and assistance to low income, disadvantaged individuals and children.

Human Services
7
Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education
8
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.

Human Services
9
Industrial Council of Nearwest Chicago

Strengthen companies in the kinzie industrial corridor and facilitate economic and community development by providing services and incubator space.

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10
Northeast Indiana Innovation Center Inc

We are a comprehensive entrepreneurial center whose mission is putting business growth, innovation and entrepreneurship to work for northeast indiana

Community Improvement
11
Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc

Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.

Arts & Culture
12
Chamber of Commerce of Harrison County

Support our members and the business environment by fostering economic and community development initiatives to improve the quality of life in harrison county.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of Indiana United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Whitely Community Council Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr12%6%5–10yr16%14%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr12%29%35–55yr23%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr12%0%5–10yr16%3%10–20yr17%8%20–35yr12%42%35–55yr23%45%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/69
the rest of the field
12%
70/562

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

56 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. 56 of the 105 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/56
Grantees still filing
41/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MINNETRISTA CULTURAL FOUNDATIONINC — $9,095,000 · OtherMINNETRISTA CULTURAL FOUNDATIONINCYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MUNCIE INDIANA INC — $2,356,000 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MUNCIE INDIANA INCMUNCIE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS — $1,993,864 · OtherMUNCIE COMMUNITY SCHOOLSMUNCIE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC — $1,141,600 · OtherBALL STATE UNIVERSITY — $1,096,479 · OtherCORNERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $910,743 · Other+71 more — $9,168,715 · Other+71 moreBall State University Foundation Inc — $7,331,304 · EducationBall State University Found…IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC — $2,101,000 · EducationIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC+6 more — $778,017 · Education+6 moreMUNCIE CIVIC THEATRE — $848,497 · Arts & CultureMUNCIE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $502,104 · Arts & CultureMusic For All Inc — $185,000 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $152,000 · Arts & CultureMUNCIE ARTS & CULTURE COUNCIL INC — $105,000 · Arts & CultureORCHESTRA INDIANA INC — $80,000 · Arts & CultureHILLCROFT SERVICES INC — $830,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH OPPORTUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $562,265 · Human Services+2 more — $47,690 · Human ServicesINNOVATION CONNECTOR INC — $574,686 · Community ImprovementWHITELY COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC — $529,000 · Community ImprovementMUNCIE DOWNTOWN DEV PARTNERSHIP — $60,000 · Community Improvement+3 more — $38,000 · Community ImprovementHEART OF INDIANA UNITED WAY INC — $1,028,700 · PhilanthropyIndiana Philanthropy Alliance Inc — $50,760 · PhilanthropyCARDINAL GREENWAY INC — $810,000 · Recreation & SportsCOMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT PROJECTS INC — $114,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$25,762,401Education$10,210,321Arts & Culture$1,872,601Human Services$1,439,955Community Improvement$1,201,686Philanthropy$1,079,460Recreation & Sports$924,000

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 budgetMINNETRISTA CULTURAL FOUNDATIONINC — $9,095,000 over 8y, 27% of budgetBall State University Foundation Inc — $7,331,304 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MUNCIE INDIANA INC — $2,356,000 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC — $2,101,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetMUNCIE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC — $1,141,600 over 8y, 18% of budgetHEART OF INDIANA UNITED WAY INC — $1,028,700 over 4y, 13% of budgetCORNERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $910,743 over 8y, 26% of budgetMUNCIE CIVIC THEATRE — $848,497 over 8y, 13% of budgetHILLCROFT SERVICES INC — $830,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetCARDINAL GREENWAY INC — $810,000 over 7y, 31% of budgetGREATER MUNCIE INDIANA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $642,000 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetDELAWARE ADVANCEMENT CORPORATION — $617,000 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetINNOVATION CONNECTOR INC — $574,686 over 7y, 17% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $562,265 over 6y, 27% of budgetWHITELY COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC — $529,000 over 6y, 35% of budgetRED-TAIL LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $515,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetMUNCIE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $502,104 over 5y, 49% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC — $332,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTEENWORKS INC — $315,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetUNITED DAY CARE CENTER — $311,942 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetROSS COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $248,992 over 7y, 19% of budgetINSIDE OUT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $241,750 over 7y, 17% of budgetMOTIVATE OUR MINDS INC — $230,525 over 6y, 18% of budgetCHRISTIAN MINISTRIES OF DELAWARE — $226,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $210,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMusic For All Inc — $185,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetHoosier Environmental Council Inc — $175,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetDELAWARE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $152,000 over 4y, 54% of budgetPROJECT LEADERSHIP INC — $136,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT PROJECTS INC — $114,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetOpen Door Health Services Inc — $112,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMUNCIE ARTS & CULTURE COUNCIL INC — $105,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetCOLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INC — $87,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetORCHESTRA INDIANA INC — $80,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetLEAD-ECI — $70,445 over 3y, 21% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $65,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNONPROFIT SUPPORT NETWORK INC — $60,000 over 2y, 67% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA — $60,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetMUNCIE DOWNTOWN DEV PARTNERSHIP — $60,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetBRIDGES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $56,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetIndiana Philanthropy Alliance Inc — $50,760 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetKEUKA COLLEGE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUNCIE ACTION PLAN INC — $25,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMASTERWORKS CHORALE INC — $25,000 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetMUNCIE MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $18,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCLASSROOM CONNECTIONS OF ECI INC — $18,400 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetVISIT MUNCIE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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 MINNETRISTA CULTURAL FOUNDATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds Ball State University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MUNCIE INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MUNCIE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds HEART OF INDIANA UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds MUNCIE CIVIC THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds HILLCROFT SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CARDINAL GREENWAY INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MUNCIE INDIANA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE ADVANCEMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds INNOVATION CONNECTOR INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WHITELY COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds RED-TAIL LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds MUNCIE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds TEENWORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED DAY CARE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ROSS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds INSIDE OUT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds MOTIVATE OUR MINDS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Music For All Inc ↗
  • Who funds Hoosier Environmental Council Inc ↗
42 internal · 14 shared anchors

Your portfolio is already a network

Muncie Children's Museum partners with TeenWorks to provide summer employment and work experience for local teens who assist with cleaning, activities, and field trip programs at the museum. It’s one of 42 direct ties among 46 of your grantees, who also cluster around 14 shared regional anchors.

Ties are read from news and organization websites, so they’re directional, not exhaustive; each links to its source.

46
Grantees connected
42
Grantee↔grantee ties
14
Shared anchors (2+ grantees)
128
External links

Tap any organization to trace its collaborations — shared anchors pull toward the center

42 shown · 51 ties
URBAN LIGHT COMMUNITY CHURCH — $300k granted · 4 linksSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC — $332k granted · 3 linksMUNCIE MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $19k granted · 3 linksTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $210k granted · 4 linksMUNCIE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC — $1.1M granted · 9 linksMUNCIE BOYS AND GIRLS CLU…HEART OF INDIANA UNITED WAY INC — $1.0M granted · 7 linksDELAWARE ADVANCEMENT CORPORATION — $617k granted · 3 linksNONPROFIT SUPPORT NETWORK INC — $60k granted · 4 linksCARDINAL GREENWAY INC — $810k granted · 7 linksORCHESTRA INDIANA INC — $80k granted · 4 linksBRIDGES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $56k granted · 5 linksMASTERWORKS CHORALE INC — $25k granted · 4 linksMINNETRISTA CULTURAL FOUNDATIONINC — $9.1M granted · 4 linksMINNETRISTA CULTURAL FOUN…MUNCIE DOWNTOWN DEV PARTNERSHIP — $60k granted · 3 linksINNOVATION CONNECTOR INC — $575k granted · 3 linksTEENWORKS INC — $315k granted · 5 linksDELAWARE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $152k granted · 9 linksMOTIVATE OUR MINDS INC — $231k granted · 5 linksYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MUNCIE INDIANA INC — $2.4M granted · 6 linksYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASS…GREATER MUNCIE INDIANA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $642k granted · 7 linksUNITED DAY CARE CENTER — $312k granted · 4 linksIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC — $2.1M granted · 5 linksIVY TECH FOUNDATION INCCOMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT PROJECTS INC — $114k granted · 3 linksMUNCIE ACTION PLAN INC — $25k granted · 4 linksMUNCIE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS — $2.0M granted · 5 linksMUNCIE COMMUNITY SCHOOLSMUNCIE CIVIC THEATRE — $848k granted · 5 linksWHITELY COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC — $529k granted · 6 linksROSS COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $249k granted · 7 linksMUNCIE ARTS & CULTURE COUNCIL INC — $105k granted · 5 linksOpen Door Health Services Inc — $112k granted · 10 linksCOLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INC — $88k granted · 6 linksYOUTH OPPORTUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $562k granted · 4 linksFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $65k granted · 3 linksRED-TAIL LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $515k granted · 4 linksMUNCIE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $502k granted · 7 linksMUNCIE PUBLIC LIBRARY — $10k granted · 4 linksBall State University Foundation Inc — $7.3M granted · 11 linksBall State University Fou…CORNERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $911k granted · 6 linksEast Central Indiana Regional Partnership — named by 3 granteesEast Central Indiana Regi…George and Frances Ball Foundation — named by 3 granteesGeorge and Frances Ball F…8twelve Coalition — named by 4 grantees8twelve CoalitionCity of Muncie — named by 3 granteesCity of Muncie
grantee you fund external partner named by both stated inferred

Tap any organization in the graph to trace its collaborations — or start with the strongest ties below.

Strongest grantee↔grantee ties

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    corroborated Coalition · Joint program
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    corroborated Affiliation · Joint program
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    corroborated Affiliation · Coalition
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    corroborated Coalition · Joint program

Anchors several grantees share

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Joint program 113Coalition 22Affiliation 19Funding 9Merger / affiliation 6Referral network 3Shared facility 3Collaboration 2

Partnerships are LLM-extracted from news and organization websites, not from tax filings — directional, not exhaustive. Each edge links to its source; corroborated edges were named independently by both organizations.

Cause groups: Arts & Culture, Community Improvement, Education, Employment, Environment, Food & Nutrition, Health, Housing & Shelter, Human Services, Other, Philanthropy, Recreation & Sports, Youth Development

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.

Ball Brothers Foundat…The Community Foundat…Mutualbank Charitable…Hamer D & Phyllis C S…Sherman and Marjorie …Heart of Indiana Unit…American Electric Pow…Lilly Endowment IncMuncie Endurathon IncCenterpoint Energy Fo…Indiana University He…The Patricia Schaefer…
Ball Brothers FoundationIN105.4× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ball Brothers Foundation · The Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County Inc · Mutualbank Charitable Foundation Inc · Hamer D & Phyllis C Shafer Foundation Charitable Trust · Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler Foundation Inc · Heart of Indiana United Way Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Muncie Endurathon Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital Inc · The Patricia Schaefer Foundation Tr

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 George and Frances Ball 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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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    How do I get to George and Frances Ball Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to George and Frances Ball Foundation 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 105 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 (period ending 2024-12-31), released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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