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Tom and Hetty Ball Private Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$117k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
58%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$35,500
Organizations funded a year
4 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$645k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 58% of the organizations Tom and Hetty Ball Private Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureAnimalsHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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
FY2024still arriving12$117k25%
FY202312$91k58%
FY20226$101k17%
FY20217$102k43%
FY20206$56k17%
FY20199$75k44%
FY20185$81k40%
FY20174$64kn/a
84% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$342kHealth$203kEducation$33kPublic Benefit$25kAnimals$16kRecreation & Sports$15kArts & Culture$8kPhilanthropy$7kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
OH
CA
CO
MD
OK
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Texas Children's Hospital$180,50080%
Bob Hoover Academy$30,00064%
The Jimmy Graham Foundation$25,000117%
Children's Museum Inc$7,50040%
Bernick Charitable Foundation$7,0001n/a
Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports$5,00010%
Childrens Transplant Initiative$3,00020%
Charger Pride Scholarship Foundation$2,00021%
The Houston Food Bank$1,00010%
Houston Zoo Inc$1,00020%
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All grantees of Tom and Hetty Ball Private Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Texas Children's Hospital$180,50080%
Bob Hoover Academy$30,00064%
The Jimmy Graham Foundation$25,000117%
Children's Museum Inc$7,50040%
Bernick Charitable Foundation$7,0001n/a
Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports$5,00010%
Childrens Transplant Initiative$3,00020%
Charger Pride Scholarship Foundation$2,00021%
The Houston Food Bank$1,00010%
Houston Zoo Inc$1,00020%
Blue Angels Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Sky High for Kids Inc$1,00010%
Mason Volunteer Fire Department$1,0001n/a
The University of Toledo Foundation$1,00010%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($422k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tom and Hetty Ball Private Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $180,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBob Hoover Academy: $30,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetThe Jimmy Graham Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetChildren's Museum Inc: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSteamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChildrens Transplant Initiative: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCharger Pride Scholarship Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Zoo Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Angels Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSky High for Kids Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Toledo Foundation: $1,000 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 12.

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.

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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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About Tom and Hetty Ball Private Foundation Inc

How much does Tom and Hetty Ball Private Foundation Inc give?
Tom and Hetty Ball Private Foundation Inc reported 12 grants totaling $117,320 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Tom and Hetty Ball Private Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (50%), Health (30%), Education (5%).
Who are Tom and Hetty Ball Private Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Texas Children's Hospital ($181k), Bob Hoover Academy ($30k), The Jimmy Graham Foundation ($25k).
Does Tom and Hetty Ball Private Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tom and Hetty Ball Private Foundation Inc 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 Tom and Hetty Ball Private Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Tom and Hetty Ball Private Foundation Inc based?
Tom and Hetty Ball Private Foundation Inc is based in TX.

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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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