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Rita Patricia Ball Foundation

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.

$14k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
53%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$705
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 26
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$203k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 53% of the organizations Rita Patricia Ball Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$14k71%
FY202415$15k53%
FY202316$17k81%
FY202210$7k60%
FY202117$11k41%
FY202026$16kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$15kHealth$13kYouth Development$11kRecreation & Sports$11kInternational$8kAnimals$4kArts & Culture$4kEnvironment$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
ND
WI
NY
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
OK
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees
All grantees of Rita Patricia Ball Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hello Future Inc$5,0001n/a
A Love for Life Inc$4,79961%
Guatemala Service Projects Inc$3,25121%
The Newtown Library Company$2,29332%
Fanconi Cancer Foundation$1,00020%
Ulman Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation$1,00010%
SOL International Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Soccer Without Borders$61810%
Art For The Journey$50010%
Navy Seal Foundation Inc$5001n/a
Feed More Inc$50010%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$50010%
Special Olympics Maryland Inc$25020%
Natural Lands Trust Inc$20010%
Melanoma Research Foundation$20010%
World TEAM Sports$20010%
Bucks County Heroes Scholarship Fund$10710%
Hopes and Dreams Foundation Incorporated$1001n/a
Crossroads Inc$10010%
Bishop Oconnell High School$1001n/a
Pennenvironment Inc$10010%
Newtown Fire Association Inc$3510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($56k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rita Patricia Ball Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetA Love for Life Inc: $4,799 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetGuatemala Service Projects Inc: $3,251 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Newtown Library Company: $2,293 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetFanconi Cancer Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUlman Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVirginia Breast Cancer Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOL International Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSoccer Without Borders: $618 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArt For The Journey: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeed More Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Maryland Inc: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Lands Trust Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMelanoma Research Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld TEAM Sports: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBucks County Heroes Scholarship Fund: $107 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCrossroads Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPennenvironment Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNewtown Fire Association Inc: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC9.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Rita Patricia 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.

About Rita Patricia Ball Foundation

How much does Rita Patricia Ball Foundation give?
Rita Patricia Ball Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $13,751 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 26 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Rita Patricia Ball Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Health (17%), Youth Development (14%).
Who are Rita Patricia Ball Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Hello Future Inc ($5k), A Love for Life Inc ($5k), Guatemala Service Projects Inc ($3k).
Does Rita Patricia Ball Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Rita Patricia Ball Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rita Patricia Ball Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund.
Where is Rita Patricia Ball Foundation based?
Rita Patricia Ball Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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