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Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr at a glance

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Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$300k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$618kPhilanthropy$358kEducation$352kPublic Benefit$194kReligion$183kHealth$168kCrime & Legal$135kFood & Nutrition$133kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $170k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $130k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$25,000
FOUNDATION FOR SPRINGFIELD PUBLIC$20,000
GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH LLC$15,000
FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT INC$10,000
BRIDGE OF FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH$10,000
FRIENDS OF ABILITIES FIRST$10,000
CARE TO LEARN$10,000
CASA OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI$10,000
SPRINGFIELD WORKSHOP$10,000
BARNABUS FOUNDATION$10,000
SPRINGFIELD GREENE COUNTY PUBLIC LI$8,750
GIFT OF HOPE INC$7,950
THE VICTIM CENTER$7,500
OZARKS LITERARY COUNCIL$7,500
CHRISTIAN COUNTY BUSINESS DEVELOPME$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $439k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%DOGWOOD RANCH CORPORATION: $25k → 8%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH LLC: $50k → 18%LEAST OF THESE: $15k → 8%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH LLC: $20k → 18%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH: $19k → 18%PPS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN IN NEED: $10k → 8%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH LLC: $15k → 18%LEAST OF THESE: $10k → 8%FRIENDS OF ABILITIES FIRST INC: $13k → 15%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH LLC: $15k → 18%LEAST OF THESE: $10k → 8%CARE TO LEARN: $10k → 15%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH LLC: $15k → 18%GIFT OF HOPE INC: $8k → 14%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH: $15k → 18%LEAST OF THESE: $8k → 8%GIFT OF HOPE INC: $8k → 14%HARMONY HOUSE: $9k → 15%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH LLC: $7k → 18%LEAST OF THESE: $8k → 8%GIFT OF HOPE INC: $7k → 14%GIFT OF HOPE INC: $7k → 14%THE HARMONY HOUSE: $5k → 15%LEAST OF THESE: $8k → 8%GIFT OF HOPE INC: $7k → 14%GIFT OF HOPE INC: $6k → 14%GIFT OF HOPE INC: $5k → 14%LOST & FOUND GRIEF CENTER: $3k → 15%LOST & FOUND GRIEF CENTER: $3k → 15%CHRISTIAN COUNTY CARES: $5k → 8%FRIENDS OF ABILITIES FIRST: $10k → 15%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT INC: $20k → 15%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT INC: $10k → 15%PPS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN IN NEED: $10k → 15%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT INC: $10k → 15%THE KITCHEN INC: $8k → 15%THE KITCHEN INC: $5k → 15%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT INC: $5k → 15%PPS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN IN NEED: $5k → 15%THE KITCHEN INC: $5k → 15%OZARKS AREA COMMUNITY ACTION: $4k → 15%OZARKS AREA COMMUNITY ACTION: $4k → 15%OZARKS AREA COMMUNITY ACTION: $3k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 48 repeat orgs$441k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
31

Total granted

$1.7M
$365k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+20%

Still filing today

63%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GS
    Good Samaritan Boys Ranch
    8× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +73%
  • SS
    Springfield Symphony Association
    7× · 2018–2025 · $63k · revenue +61%
  • OL
    OZARKS LITERACY COUNCIL
    7× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SPRINGFIELD GREENE COUNTY
    one grant, 2019 · $108k
  • KF
    KIWANIS FOUNDATION OF SPRINGFIELD S
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • DR
    DOGWOOD RANCH CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +90%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Ozark Opportunities Inc

To render constructive civic service, including the sponsorship of social, educational, and economic projects for the promotion of the welfare of the community and the citizens of the ozarks situated in baxter, boone, marion, newton,…

Community Improvement
2
Ozark Regional Share and Care

Provide basic human services such as food, clothing, shelter, medical, etc. for local people in need

Human Services
3
Child Safe of Central Missouri Inc

Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…

Crime & Legal
4
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
5
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
6
Family Health Center of Boone County

To provide access to primary medical, dental and mental health services for community members, with emphasis on the medically underserved, to improve the health of the community and to train future health care providers.

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7
Central Ozarks Private Industry Council

Central Ozarks Private Industry Council, Incorporated (COPIC) strives to provide all customers with access to professional, high-quality workforce development services, resulting in sustainable employment and contributing to positive…

Employment
8
Clark Community Mental Health Center

Reduce the stigma and promote awareness surrounding mental health within the communities we serve, promote wellness, and provide individualized care with an integrated approach.

Health
9
Womens Crisis Center of Taney County Inc

The Crisis Center provides shelter and services to victims and their children of domestic and sexual violence.

Human Services
10
Recovery Center of the Ozarks

To provide substance abuse counceling and services

Health
11
Child Advocacy Center of Central Ok Inc

The purpose of the organization is to provide hope-centered, trauma-informed, child-first services that unite law enforcement, child protective services (state and tribal), prosecutors, mental health professionals, and medical…

Human Services
12
Ozarks New Hope Inc

Provide integrated, patient-centered health services designed to meet the needs of all patients, regardless of ability to pay; help the healthcare industry better serve patients & community by promoting public health; supporting…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc; the most unlike its peers is Christian County Cares. 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

51 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. 51 of the 93 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
30/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SPRINGFIELD GREENE COUNTY: $108,000 · OtherTHE SPRINGFIELD GREENE COUNTYCOUNCIL OF CHURCHES OF THE OZARKS INC: $95,000 · OtherCOUNCIL OF CHURCHES OF THE OZARKS INCFOUNDATION FOR SPRINGFIELD PUBLIC S: $77,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR SPRINGFIELD PUBLIC SBRIDGE OF FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH: $63,000 · OtherSpringfield Symphony Association: $62,500 · OtherOZARKS LITERACY COUNCIL: $59,500 · OtherCASA - COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVO: $55,000 · OtherOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC: $42,500 · Other+57 more: $679,646 · Other+57 moreGood Samaritan Boys Ranch: $154,830 · Human ServicesGood Samaritan Boys Ran…CENTS OF PRIDE: $67,500 · Human ServicesCENTS OF PRIDELEAST OF THESE INC: $57,500 · Human ServicesLEAST OF THESE INCGIFT OF HOPE INC: $47,375 · Human ServicesGIFT OF HOPE INCFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INCPPS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN IN NEED: $25,000 · Human ServicesDOGWOOD RANCH CORPORATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF ABILITIES FIRST: $23,000 · Human ServicesTHE KITCHEN INC: $17,500 · Human Services+6 more: $49,000 · Human Services+6 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC: $310,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOU…Taneyhills Library Inc DBA Friends of the Library: $169,450 · EducationDrury University: $18,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationFoundation for Springfield Public Schools: $44,000 · HealthCHILDRENS SMILE CENTER CSC: $40,210 · HealthTHE VICTIM CENTER: $24,000 · HealthFaith Community Health DBA Hope Counseling Center: $7,500 · Health+1 more: $2,110 · HealthTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $53,500 · Crime & LegalCRISIS NURSERY OF THE OZARKS INC: $20,000 · Crime & LegalIPOURLIFE INC: $50,000 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPE: $15,000 · International
Other$1,242,146Human Services$511,705Philanthropy$310,000Education$192,450Health$117,820Crime & Legal$73,500International$65,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC: $310,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTaneyhills Library Inc DBA Friends of the Library: $169,450 over 7y, 11% of budgetGood Samaritan Boys Ranch: $154,830 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCENTS OF PRIDE: $67,500 over 7y, 67% of budgetSpringfield Symphony Association: $62,500 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetOZARKS LITERACY COUNCIL: $59,500 over 7y, 12% of budgetLEAST OF THESE INC: $57,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $53,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetIPOURLIFE INC: $50,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetGIFT OF HOPE INC: $47,375 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Springfield Public Schools: $44,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC: $42,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARC OF THE OZARKS: $40,211 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS SMILE CENTER CSC: $40,210 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE OZARKS: $37,800 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetDISCOVERY CENTER OF SPRINGFIELD INC: $30,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPPS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN IN NEED: $25,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHE VICTIM CENTER: $24,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ABILITIES FIRST: $23,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC: $20,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCRISIS NURSERY OF THE OZARKS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLIFE360 COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDrury University: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KITCHEN INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRebound Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetFAMILY VIOLENCE CENTER: $13,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREAT CIRCLE: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSWI Industrial Solutions Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOzarks Area Community Action Corporation: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INC: $10,200 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SPRINGFIELD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCare to Learn: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChristian Action Ministries: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHistory Museum on the Square Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHRISTIAN COUNTY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $7,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR AUXILIARY OF TANEY COUNTY MISSOURI INC: $5,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetLOST & FOUND: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHRISTIAN COUNTY CARES: $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetOZARKS TEEN CHALLENGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIAPER BANK OF THE OZARKS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE MISSOURI HEARTLAND INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JAMES RIVER BASIN PARTNERSHIP: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF ST LOUIS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSKAGGS FOUNDATION: $2,110 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
  • Who funds Taneyhills Library Inc DBA Friends of the Library ↗
  • Who funds Good Samaritan Boys Ranch ↗
  • Who funds CENTS OF PRIDE ↗
  • Who funds Springfield Symphony Association ↗
  • Who funds OZARKS LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds LEAST OF THESE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds IPOURLIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds GIFT OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for Springfield Public Schools ↗
  • Who funds OZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds ARC OF THE OZARKS ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS SMILE CENTER CSC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE OZARKS ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY CENTER OF SPRINGFIELD INC ↗
  • Who funds PPS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN IN NEED ↗
  • Who funds DOGWOOD RANCH CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE VICTIM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ABILITIES FIRST ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
  • Who funds CRISIS NURSERY OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFE360 COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Drury University ↗
  • Who funds THE KITCHEN 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.

Community Foundation …The Charlie & Mary Be…Musgrave FoundationOzarks Health Advocac…Stephen & Helen G Sed…The Hulston Family Fo…Arvest FoundationRoy W Slusher Charita…Rick and Marsha Floyd…Larry P O'Reilly and …United Way of the Oza…Robert M - Bobby - Al…
Community Foundation of the Ozarks IncMO69.5× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family Foundation · Musgrave Foundation · Ozarks Health Advocacy Foundation · Stephen & Helen G Sedora Charitable Trust · The Hulston Family Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Roy W Slusher Charitable Foundation · Rick and Marsha Floyd Foundation · Larry P O'Reilly and Family Foundation · United Way of the Ozarks Inc · Robert M - Bobby - Allison Charitable Tr

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 93 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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