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Battison Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$115k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
60%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 20
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$2.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Battison Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
EducationAnimalsHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving28$115k36%
FY202420$62k60%
FY202314$48k79%
FY20225$11k80%
FY20218$21kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$116kAnimals$41kHealth$37kRecreation & Sports$26kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kHuman Services$10kArts & Culture$9kScience & Tech$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 24 grantees
All grantees of Battison Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Quarter Horse Foundation$30,00030%
The Children's Hospital Foundation at Saint Francis$21,85031%
Francis Tuttle Foundation Inc$20,00023%
Oklahoma City Community College Foundati$20,00021%
Car Dealers Care Foundation$15,50046%
Folds of Honor Foundation$14,00030%
Reining Horse Foundation Inc$9,80031%
Wildcare Foundation$8,50030%
Underdog Warriors$6,00029%
Two Ravens Foundation$5,0001n/a
Grand Gentlemen$4,0002n/a
McClain County Operation Christmas Inc$3,5002n/a
Deadcenter Film Festival Inc$2,50010%
Fields & Futures Foundation$2,50010%
Energy Assist Foundation$2,50019%
Community Christian School Inc$2,00020%
Washington Cheer Booster Club$2,0002n/a
Children's Medical Research Inc$1,85010%
Connors Development Foundation Inc$1,20010%
A to Z Productions Inc$1,00011%
Southern Nazarene University$1,00010%
Care Center-Child Abuse Response and Evaluation Inc DBA The CARE Center$1,00010%
Putnam City Public Schools Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Knight Ridge Elementary PTO$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($80k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Battison Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Quarter Horse Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Hospital Foundation at Saint Francis: $21,850 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFrancis Tuttle Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetOklahoma City Community College Foundati: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCar Dealers Care Foundation: $15,500 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetFolds of Honor Foundation: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetReining Horse Foundation Inc: $9,800 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWildcare Foundation: $8,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUnderdog Warriors: $6,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetDeadcenter Film Festival Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFields & Futures Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEnergy Assist Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetCommunity Christian School Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Medical Research Inc: $1,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConnors Development Foundation Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetA to Z Productions Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSouthern Nazarene University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCare Center-Child Abuse Response and Evaluation Inc DBA The CARE Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPutnam City Public Schools Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Inasmuch FoundationOK23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Inasmuch Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Harris Foundation Inc · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · The Kerr Foundation Inc · Ad Astra Foundation · Oge Energy Corp Foundation Inc · Love Meyer Family Foundation · Cresap Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Battison Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Battison Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Battison Foundation

How much does Battison Foundation give?
Battison Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $115,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 20 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Battison Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Animals (16%), Health (14%).
Who are Battison Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: American Quarter Horse Foundation ($30k), The Children's Hospital Foundation at Saint Francis ($22k), Francis Tuttle Foundation Inc ($20k).
Does Battison Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Battison Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Battison Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Inasmuch Foundation, Communities Foundation of Oklahoma, Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc.
Where is Battison Foundation based?
Battison Foundation is based in OK.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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