Illinois · Private foundation
Ts & Juanita Ballance Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $638k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Ts & Juanita Ballance Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $628k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $574k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $608k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $660k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $567k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $562k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $546k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $563k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Millikin University | $955,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Richland Community College Foundation | $902,651 | 9 | 8% |
| The Salvation Army | $358,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Webster-Cantrell Hall | $251,100 | 6 | 1% |
| McKendree University | $215,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Decatur Public Schools Foundation | $186,200 | 5 | 8% |
| United Way of Decatur and Mid Il | $183,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Good Samaritan Inn | $171,000 | 6 | 6% |
| God's Shelter of Love | $153,279 | 5 | 7% |
| Northeast Community Fund | $141,230 | 5 | 2% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($694k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ts & Juanita Ballance 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: The Community Foundation of Macon County · United Way of Decatur and Mid Il · Andreas Foundation · John Ullrich Foundation Trust Busey Trust Co - Trustee · James Millikin Trust A · The Erwin and Linda Arends Foundation · Amherst F Hardy Foundation · Henry M Staley Declaration of Charit Tr D/B/A Staley Family Foundation · Howard G Buffett Foundation · Edward Whinnery Trust · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · The National Association for the Exchange of Industrial Resources Inc
How this is measured
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About Ts & Juanita Ballance Foundation
- How much does Ts & Juanita Ballance Foundation give?
- Ts & Juanita Ballance Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $638,064 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ts & Juanita Ballance Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Human Services (26%), Food & Nutrition (7%).
- Who are Ts & Juanita Ballance Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Millikin University ($955k), Richland Community College Foundation ($903k), The Salvation Army ($358k).
- Does Ts & Juanita Ballance Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ts & Juanita Ballance Foundation 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 Ts & Juanita Ballance Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Macon County, United Way of Decatur and Mid Il, Andreas Foundation.
- Where is Ts & Juanita Ballance Foundation based?
- Ts & Juanita Ballance Foundation is based in IL.
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