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Myers-Ball Foundation Inc co Barbara Myers

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$26k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Religion$111kArts & Culture$33kAnimals$9kHealth$1kInternational$150Public Benefit$10
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
$1,250
Median grant
2
States reached
$368k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Church of the Resurrection$16,075
Threshhold Dance Projects$6,000
Clarion Music Society$1,250
Bar Harbor Music Festival$1,250
American Cancer Society$1,000
St Ann's Church$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Grey2K USA Worldwide: $50 → 8%The Ginny Fund: $200 → 6%Consuner Reports Inc: $10 → 9%Montgomery County SPCA: $5k → 14%Animal Care Centers of NYC: $50 → 17%American Near East Refugee Aid ANER: $100 → 14%American Cancer Society: $1k → 13%Montgomery County SPCA: $2k → 14%Church of the Resurrection: $34k → 17%Project Hope: $50 → 14%Montgomery County SPCA: $2k → 14%Church of the Resurrection: $19k → 17%St Ann's Church: $500 → 14%Church of the Resurrection: $18k → 17%St Anns Episcopal Church: $100 → 14%Church of the Resurrection: $17k → 17%Church of the Resurrection: $16k → 17%Church of the Resurrection: $6k → 17%Clarion Music Society: $1k → 17%Bar Harbor Music Festival: $2k → 17%Bar Harbor Music Festival: $2k → 17%Bar Harbor Music Festival: $1k → 17%Bar Harbor Music Festival: $940 → 17%Bar Harbor Music Festival: $700 → 17%Bar Harbor Music Festival: $690 → 17%American Ballet Theatre Foundation: $100 → 17%St Thomas Church: $150 → 17%St Thomas Church: $100 → 17%Threshhold Dance Projects: $6k → 17%Threshhold Dance Projects: $5k → 17%Threshhold Dance Projects: $5k → 17%Threshhold Dance Projects: $3k → 17%Threshhold Dance Projects: $3k → 17%Threshhold Dance Projects: $3k → 17%Animal Care Centers of New York Cit: $50 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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
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.
$151k · 5 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$151k
$710

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+14%

Still filing today

40%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsArts & CulturePublic BenefitHealthInternationalOther

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

  • CO
    CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $110k
  • TD
    Threshold Dance Projects Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +30%
  • MC
    MONTGOMERY COUNTY SPCA
    3× · 2020–2023 · $9k · revenue -34%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GINNY FUNDINCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $200 · revenue +88%
  • SA
    St Anns Episcopal Church
    one grant, 2022 · $100
  • BT
    BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100 · revenue +14%

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

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
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
2
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
3
Animal Cancer Foundation

Animal cancer foundation is dedicated to finding new treatments and eventual cures for cancer by funding research in and increasing public awareness of comparative oncology, the study of naturally occurring, similar cancers in people and…

Health
4
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
5
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
6
Alliance for Contraception in Cats & Dogs

ACC&D's mission is to advance non-surgical sterilants and contraceptives for cats and dogs and to promote their global accessibility. We envision a world in which dog and cat populations are effectively and humanely managed, improving the…

Animals
7
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
8
Global Canine and Feline Rescue Association Inc

We rescue cats and dogs suffered on the street and in endangered locations in both new york and china. the mission of our no-kill shelter is to provide stray cats with safe haven and veterinary care before placing them in forever loving…

Animals
9
Alley Cat Rescue Inc

ACRs programs promote better care for community cats through trap-neuter-return. Local programs include placing unwanted cats in new homes, running a low-cost spay/neuter clinic, and providing support for local feral cat caretakers.…

Animals
10
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc

Protection of animal rights

Animals
11
American Alliance for Protection of Animals Aapa Inc

American Alliance for Protection of Animals is a not for profit charity organization based in New York City, that protects animals and promotes animal welfare. We educate and spread awareness about animal cruelty and neglect and puppy…

Animals
12
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Animal Care and Control of New York City Inc and the most unlike its peers is Threshold Dance Projects Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION — $110,260 · OtherCHURCH OF THE RESURRECTIONBar Harbor Music Festival — $7,205 · OtherBar Harbor Music Festival+5 more — $1,000 · OtherThreshold Dance Projects Inc — $24,500 · Arts & CultureThreshold Dance Pr…CLARION MUSIC SOCIETY — $1,250 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $100 · Arts & CultureMONTGOMERY COUNTY SPCA — $9,000 · Animals+3 more — $300 · AnimalsAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,000 · HealthPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $50 · InternationalCONSUMER REPORTS INC — $10 · Public Benefit
Other$118,465Arts & Culture$25,850Animals$9,300Health$1,000International$50Public Benefit$10

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 budgetThreshold Dance Projects Inc — $24,500 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY SPCA — $9,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCLARION MUSIC SOCIETY — $1,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GINNY FUNDINCORPORATED — $200 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREY2K USA WORLDWIDE INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSUMER REPORTS INC — $10 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

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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 Myers-Ball Foundation Inc co Barbara Myers 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Myers-Ball Foundation Inc co Barbara Myers?

    Find your warmest path to Myers-Ball Foundation Inc co Barbara Myers 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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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