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Battelle Memorial Institute
BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ("bmi") is organized exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes, including the utilization of science, the scientific method and research for the benefit and education of mankind.
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72% of Battelle Memorial Institute’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Columbus Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 153 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 162 grants below total $17,386,396 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $18,533,260 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,146,864 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k59 grants · $407k
- $10k–50k86 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+5 grants · $14M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $12,190,494 |
| REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $726,509 |
| LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY FOUNDATION | $706,067 |
| OAK RIDGE SCHOOLS | $275,000 |
| OAK RIDGE FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO | $219,218 |
| COLLEGE OF EASTERN IDAHO FOUNDATION | $204,650 |
| EMORY VALLEY CENTER | $151,000 |
| EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION | $147,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF BONNEVILLE | $118,000 |
| TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE FOR SURVIVORS | $106,097 |
| IDAHO ADVANCED ENERGY | $94,000 |
| NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $71,900 |
| FREDERICK COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $65,139 |
| TNFIRST | $60,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $958k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
184 repeat relationships — 113 still active in FY2024, 71 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $602k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MEMETRO EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL4× · 2017–2021 · $7.6M · revenue +56% · 71% of their budget
- LALOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +95%
- RDREGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION6× · 2019–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +8% · 68% of their budget
Funded once
- NINEUROTECH INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2021 · $5.0M · revenue -97%
- SRSNAKE RIVER BASIN INNOVATION DISTRICT INCone grant, 2023 · $55k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $51k · revenue +178%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Association of Chinese-American Engineers and Scientists of New Mexico. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
367 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 367 of the 433 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METRO EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEUROTECH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OAK RIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO SERVING LOS ALAMOS & RIO ARRIBA CO ↗
- Who funds IDAHO STEM ACTION CENTER FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds OAK RIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF EASTERN IDAHO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF EASTERN IDAHO ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD ↗
- Who funds THE NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds ROANE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LONG ISLAND ↗
- Who funds TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds PELLISSIPPI STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC ↗
- Who funds EMORY VALLEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REDI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO ADVANCED ENERGY CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF AIKEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds STEM Santa Fe ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds NMC INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NEW MEXICO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Idaho Foundation Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · L Brands Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent · Columbus Foundation · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Battelle Memorial Institute funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- The Morgan State University Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- Frederick Health Hospital Inc — 2% of income from government
- Mount Saint Mary's University Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.