Indiana · Private foundation
George and Frances Ball Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2024
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,110,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 60
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $90M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations George and Frances Ball Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $244k 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 | 48 | $4.9M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $5.6M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $5.3M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $5.4M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 60 | $5.4M | 32% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $5.3M | 24% |
| FY2018 | 43 | $5.2M | 33% |
| FY2017 | 39 | $5.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Each grant at its grantee’s address, over the share of households in hardship around it.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnetrista Cultural Foundationinc | $9,095,000 | 8 | 27% |
| Ball State University Foundation Inc | $7,331,304 | 8 | 6% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Muncie Indiana Inc | $2,356,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Ivy Tech Foundation Inc | $2,101,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Muncie Community Schools | $1,993,864 | 8 | n/a |
| Muncie Boys and Girls Club Inc | $1,141,600 | 8 | 18% |
| Heart of Indiana United Way Inc | $1,028,700 | 4 | 13% |
| Cornerstone Center for the Arts Inc | $910,743 | 8 | 26% |
| Muncie Civic Theatre | $848,497 | 8 | 13% |
| Hillcroft Services Inc | $830,000 | 4 | 3% |
Show all 68 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
George and Frances Ball Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 54 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: 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
How this is measured
Compare George and Frances Ball Foundation with peer funders
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About George and Frances Ball Foundation
- How much does George and Frances Ball Foundation give?
- George and Frances Ball Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $5,010,497 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 60 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does George and Frances Ball Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (34%), Arts & Culture (29%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are George and Frances Ball Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Minnetrista Cultural Foundationinc ($9.1M), Ball State University Foundation Inc ($7.3M), Young Men's Christian Association of Muncie Indiana Inc ($2.4M).
- Does George and Frances Ball Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as George and Frances Ball Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ball Brothers Foundation, The Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County Inc, Mutualbank Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is George and Frances Ball Foundation based?
- George and Frances Ball Foundation is based in MUNCIE, IN.
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