Find Nonprofit and Small Business Grants

Requirements:
- The proposal must clearly demonstrate linkages to the organization’s strategic plan
- The focus must be on one of the Ball Brothers Foundation’s interest areas
- The proposal has potential for immediate leveraging of other funds to support the project or initiative and demonstrates the likelihood of gaining further support from other sources once the original grants ends
- The proposal must include a definitive process for measuring or assessing results
- Organizations/institutions must have tax exempt status as defined by IRS Codes

BBF only provides funding to organizations operating in Indiana. Historically, the vast majority of BBF funding has been targeted to organizations in East Central Indiana with a particular emphasis in the Muncie/Delaware County area. Other counties included in the geographical footprint are: Blackford County, Grant County, Henry county, Jay County, Madison County, and Randolph County. Some limited exceptions are occasionally made outside these areas. While organizations outside the Muncie/East Central Indiana area are welcome to apply for support, please be aware that funding for organizations outside this footprint is rare.

The Foundation will not support:
- Direct assistance to individuals or scholarships
- Applications coming from outside of Indiana
- Booster organizations
- On-going salary requests of staff personnel to support an organization
- Services that the community-at-large should normally underwrite (i.e. roads, bus transportation, etc.)
- Capital building projects
- Research projects (except for philanthropic studies)
- Unsolicited proposals; all general grant requests must begin with a Preliminary Application

General Grants requests must begin with a Preliminary Application submitted by the stated deadline dates. A full proposal will only be considered if the Preliminary Application has received the approval of the President/COO of the Foundation. The Foundation reserves the right to waive the Preliminary Application requirement.

All applications for General Grants must be submitted no later than 4:00 PM eastern standard time on the deadline date. Deadlines that fall on a holiday or weekend still apply.

Round 1:
- February 15: Preliminary Application
- April 1*: Selected General Grant Proposals

Round 2:
- July 15: Preliminary Application
- September 1*: Selected General Grant Proposals

Grant requests will be considered at the spring and fall board meetings; organizations that submitted proposals will be notified of board decisions within one week of the board meeting (typically the third week of May and October).

Where and What the Foundation Supports:
http://www.ballfdn.org/grant-info/what-we-fund/

Focus Areas:
http://www.ballfdn.org/grant-info/grant-areas-of-focus/

Deadlines:
http://www.ballfdn.org/grant-application/grant-deadlines/

Apply for a Grant:
http://www.ballfdn.org/grant-application/applying-for-a-grant/