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The Bigger Than Ball Foundation

Through sport and other passionate pursuits, THE BIGGER THAN BALL FOUNDATION exists to help more young people win in life. Mike bobo won in life and was deeply moved by helping others try to do the same.

$31k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2025
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Itemized, FY2025
$20k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$299k

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lawrence Pop Warner Football & Cheerleading Inc$20,000119%

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About The Bigger Than Ball Foundation

How much does The Bigger Than Ball Foundation give?
The Bigger Than Ball Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $20,000, out of $31,029 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.
Who are The Bigger Than Ball Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2025 to FY2025: Lawrence Pop Warner Football & Cheerleading Inc ($20k).
Where is The Bigger Than Ball Foundation based?
The Bigger Than Ball Foundation is based in MA.

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 1 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 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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