· Private foundation
Hazel & Walter Bales Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $453k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $520k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNTITY FOUNDATION OF SI | $125,000 |
| FAMILY ARK | $75,000 |
| EASTSIDE PRAISE CHURCH | $70,000 |
| CATALYST RESCUE MISSION | $50,000 |
| CLARK COUNTY MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| HOMELESS COALITION OF SI | $50,000 |
| GENESIS HOUSE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CLARK FLOYD | $30,000 |
| CHOICES LIFE RESOURCE CENTER | $30,000 |
| CLARK FLOYD SYSTEM OF CARE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| RECENTER MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $516k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
78 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $346k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CICHILDPLACE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $135k · revenue +71%
- FAFAMILY ARK INC5× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +132%
- CFCENTER FOR LAY MINISTRIES INC7× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +156%
Funded once
- RHRIVER HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +673%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $250k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SIone grant, 2018 · $120k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.
Casi's mission is to guide and empower families and communities to reach self-sufficiency and improved well-being, by addressing the root causes of poverty.
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…
Hoosier Families is a non-profit organization that provides Community Based programs for Indiana children and families. Hoosier Families is committed to utilizing evidence-based practices to strengthen, rebuild and reunite the individuals…
To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.
Inspiring life journeys
To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…
The construction and renovation of homes for low income families.
Provides community service(family counseling & day care) to the inner of louisville.
Indiana family to family (inf2f) is a unique statewide family-led organization that provides information, training, and peer support to caregivers of children and youth with special health care needs (cyshcn) and the professionals who…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To empower individuals with disabilities and their families to lead fulfilled and productive lives. harbor house empowers individuals through employment, education, and community building opportunities.
How this is measured
50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 182 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds RIVER HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDPLACE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ARK INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LAY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FALLS OF THE OHIO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON STREET BAPTIST CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds Harrison County Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
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: Horseshoe Foundation of Floyd County Inc · Community Foundation of Southern Indiana Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · Floyd Memorial Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Lift a Life Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hazel & Walter Bales Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hazel & Walter Bales Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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