Ball Charities Inc

Analysis

Ball Charities Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Kansas City, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1989, 37 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending April 2024, Ball Charities Inc reported income of $397k and spending of $417k, spending 105% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2020 to April 2024, income grew from $218k to $397k (+82%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 219%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Ball Charities Inc sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile, and in the 67th percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Jeff C Kwok and Gladys W Kwok Fam Foundatioin ($397k), Vandegrift Lacrosse Club Booster Organization ($397k) and Georgia Legislative Black Caucus Inc ($397k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending April 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 135% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $16k. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.2m.