Colorado · Private foundation
The Ball Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $52,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $29M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The Ball Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $1.6M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $1.8M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $2.9M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $912k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $980k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can'd Aid | $1,220,000 | 5 | 21% |
| Everfi Inc | $1,200,000 | 3 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $450,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Colorado Foundation | $416,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Childrens Museum of Denver Inc | $226,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Denver Scholarship Foundation | $200,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Jason Learning | $200,000 | 1 | 11% |
| River Network | $170,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Mile High United Way Inc | $125,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Girls Incorporated of Metro Denver | $110,000 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ball Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Daniels Fund · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Adolph Coors Foundation · Rose Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Ball Foundation
- How much does The Ball Foundation give?
- The Ball Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $1,607,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Ball Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (25%), Human Services (14%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are The Ball Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Can'd Aid ($1.2M), Everfi Inc ($1.2M), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($450k).
- Does The Ball Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ball Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ball Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Rose Community Foundation.
- Where is The Ball Foundation based?
- The Ball Foundation is based in CO.
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