Hazel & Walter Bales Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
351783030
IRS 990-PF coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-PF 2025
Location
Jeffersonville, IN, USA
Phone
8122822586
Rating
59
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,490,154
Expenses
$1,150,849

Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Overview

Mission

Hazel & Walter Bales Foundation is a nonprofit. Location: Jeffersonville, IN. EIN 351783030. Tax year 2025 Form 990-PF reports $1.5M revenue and $1.2M expenses.

What it reported funding in 2025

The foundation reported 45 grants totaling $1,028,500. The stated grant purposes included general, build a bed, and camp honor bright.

Operating model

Revenue model
Investment-supported. 100% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from recurring investment income.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 100% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
  • Includes asset-sale income: Asset-sale income is shown separately from recurring resources when classifying the revenue model.

The verdict

MIXED - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and a large share of spending goes to grants. Assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants.

Rating breakdown

  • Grant Deployment: 98
  • Cost Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency: NotEnoughData
  • Compliance: 50
  • Endowment Health: 18

Detailed rating inputs

Grant Deployment

  • Grant deployment ratio: 97.5%; rating input score 98; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Cost Efficiency

  • Grant expense ratio: 89.4%; rating input score 89; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency

  • Grant recipient disclosure: Limited

Compliance

  • Part VII-B activity disclosures: Limited
  • Filing consistency checks: 9; rating input score 100

Endowment Health

  • Endowment-health comparison: 10.74; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Grants: Filed grants detail
  • Payout: 97.5% grant deployment rate
  • Trustees: Filed trustees detail
  • Self-dealing: Filed self-dealing detail
  • Investments: 18th percentile for endowment coverage
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 45 filed money-flow records
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Endowment Health: Endowment-health comparison scored 18/100.