The major source of funding for the Casey Lee Ball Foundation has been the Casey Lee Ball Golf Classic, an annual charity golf tournament held with celebrity guests including Bill Murray, Jack Nicholson, Joe Pesci, Andy Garcia, John Brodie, Robert Urich, Wayne Gretzky, Chris Guest, Scott Hamilton, Cheech Marin, Chris Myers, Meatloaf, Steve Vai, Steve Lukather, Alice Cooper, Dweezil Zappa, George Clooney, and more. The event is now in it's eight year.

Another source of income comes from auctions held on Ebay. In the past, with the kind generosity of Steve Vai and Christopher Guest (a.k.a. Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap), substantial amounts have been raised. For more information please click here.

Future auctions will feature "one-of-a-kind" and autographed guitars and related items including a signed Keith Richards Music Man Silhouette like the ones he used on the Steel Wheels album and tour. If you have an item you would like to donate please select the "I want to donate and item" button on the left hand side of this page.

In the last six years over three million dollars has been raised for the Casey Lee Ball Foundation. This is a true charity. No one will make any money from these auctions except pediatric kidney disease researchers dressed in white coats! Again, every dollar raised goes directly to research. There are no administrative fees, no overhead, and all management, accounting, and legal fees are done pro bono.

Our fundraising efforts help to pay for much needed research. As a result of this research, several new medicines have made it to market in record time and are now helping to reduce the side effects of kidney transplant anti-rejection medicines. At present, a transplant is only a treatment, not a cure for kidney disease.

When you go to UCLA for Kidney disease treatment, you go to the the Casey Lee Ball Kidney Research Center, where we endowed a chair. This represents a million dollar contribution and one of only sic chairs at UCLA that are endowed, ensuring kidney research will go on in perpetuity.