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Tom and Hetty Ball Private Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0184% 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
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $82k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$645k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$35,500
The Jimmy Graham Foundation Inc$25,000
EAA$21,200
TEXAS CHILDREN'S CANCER HEMATOLOGY$9,000
Bernick Charitable Foundation$7,000
Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Spo$5,000
BOB HOOVER ACADEMY$5,000
CAMP WAPIYAPI$5,000
BEAR BE A RESOURCE$1,620
CHILDRENS TRANSPLANT INITIATIVE$1,500
CHARGER PRIDE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIO$1,000
HOUSTON ZOO INC$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%BOB HOOVER ACADEMY: $5k → 12%MASON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $1k → 13%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AM: $1k → 14%CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF HOUSTON: $3k → 16%CHARGER PRIDE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIO: $1k → 15%STALLION 51 FLIGHT OPERATIONS: $4k → 13%CARIBBEAN PROCUREMENT INC: $905 → 13%The Jimmy Graham Foundation Inc: $25k → 15%CAMP WAPIYAPI: $5k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $1k → 18%SEAPLANE CROSSINGS: $5k → 8%BOB HOOVER ACADEMY: $5k → 12%CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF HOUSTON: $3k → 16%CHARGER PRIDE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIO: $1k → 15%CAMP WAPIYAPI: $5k → 12%BOB HOOVER ACADEMY: $5k → 12%CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF HOUSTON: $1k → 16%BOB HOOVER ACADEMY: $5k → 12%CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF HOUSTON: $1k → 16%BOB HOOVER ACADEMY: $5k → 12%SKY HIGH: $1k → 16%BOB HOOVER ACADEMY: $5k → 12%Bernick Charitable Foundation: $7k → 16%TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $43k → 16%TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $36k → 16%TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $32k → 16%TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $23k → 16%TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $21k → 16%TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $17k → 16%TEXAS CHILDREN'S CANCER HEMATOLOGY: $9k → 16%TEXAS CHILDREN'S CANCER HEMATOLOGY: $9k → 16%TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $8k → 16%TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $4k → 16%HOUSTON ZOO INC: $500 → 16%HOUSTON ZOO INC: $500 → 16%EASTER SEALS AT GREATER HOUSTON: $5k → 16%EASTER SEALS AT GREATER HOUSTON: $5k → 16%EASTER SEALS AT GREATER HOUSTON: $5k → 16%HOUSTON FOOD BANK: $1k → 16%AFA: $6k → 16%AFA: $5k → 16%AFA: $4k → 16%CHILDRENS TRANSPLANT INITIATIVE: $2k → 16%AFA: $3k → 16%CHILDRENS TRANSPLANT INITIATIVE: $2k → 16%AFA: $3k → 16%BEAR BE A RESOURCE: $2k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
OH
CA
CO
MD
OK
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$634k · 12 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +88% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

$634k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%
+36%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationPhilanthropyPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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

  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospital
    8× · 2017–2024 · $181k · revenue +105%
  • BH
    BOB HOOVER ACADEMY
    6× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +384%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $8k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • S5
    STALLION 51 FLIGHT OPERATIONS
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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
Texas Children's Hospital Foundation

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.

Health
2
Texas Children's

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.

Health
3
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
4
Texas Children's Urgent Care

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.

Health
5
Houston Independent School District Foundation

The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…

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6
The Children's Hospital of Alabama

The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…

Health
7
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
8
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.

Community Improvement
9
Children's Hospital Ophthalmology Foundation Inc

The Foundation's mission is to provide ophthalmology services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the…

Health
10
Texas Children's Health Plan

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.

Health
11
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
12
Cook Children's Health Care System

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sky High for Kids Inc; the most unlike its peers is Charger Pride Scholarship Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EAA: $341,780 · OtherEAAAFA: $19,500 · OtherTEXAS CHILDREN'S CANCER HEMATOLOGY: $17,500 · OtherEASTER SEALS AT GREATER HOUSTON: $15,000 · Other+12 more: $41,175 · Other+12 moreTexas Children's Hospital: $180,500 · HealthTexas Children's Hospital+1 more: $1,000 · HealthBOB HOOVER ACADEMY: $30,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationTHE JIMMY GRAHAM FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Public BenefitCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureSteamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsCharger Pride Scholarship Foundation: $2,000 · PhilanthropyBLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$434,955Health$181,500Education$31,000Public Benefit$25,000Arts & Culture$7,500Recreation & Sports$5,000Philanthropy$3,000

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 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
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 Texas Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds BOB HOOVER ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE JIMMY GRAHAM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS TRANSPLANT INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Charger Pride Scholarship Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
  • Who funds BLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SKY HIGH FOR KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds MASON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA7.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tom and Hetty Ball Private Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tom and Hetty Ball Private Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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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