Indiana · Private foundation
Hazel & Walter Bales Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2025
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 46
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Hazel & Walter Bales Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $453k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 45 | $1.0M | 29% |
| FY2024 | 41 | $836k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $816k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $919k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $779k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $798k | 34% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $774k | 46% |
| FY2018 | 41 | $735k | 51% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| River Heritage Conservancy Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Oak Park Baptist Church | $150,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Childplace Inc | $135,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Family Ark Inc | $129,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Center for Lay Ministries Inc | $93,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Norton Healthcare Foundation Inc | $90,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Falls of the Ohio Foundation | $85,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Jefferson Street Baptist Center Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 2% |
| University of the Cumberlands Inc | $80,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Eastside Praise | $75,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 56 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 125 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Hazel & Walter Bales Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 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.
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How this is measured
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About Hazel & Walter Bales Foundation
- How much does Hazel & Walter Bales Foundation give?
- Hazel & Walter Bales Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $1,028,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Hazel & Walter Bales Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (12%), Human Services (11%), Health (10%).
- Who are Hazel & Walter Bales Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: River Heritage Conservancy Inc ($250k), Oak Park Baptist Church ($150k), Childplace Inc ($135k).
- Does Hazel & Walter Bales Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hazel & Walter Bales Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hazel & Walter Bales Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Horseshoe Foundation of Floyd County Inc, Community Foundation of Southern Indiana Inc, The Gheens Foundation Inc.
- Where is Hazel & Walter Bales Foundation based?
- Hazel & Walter Bales Foundation is based in IN.
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