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Battle Family Foundation at a glance

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Battle Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$220k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$6.7MHuman Services$631kFood & Nutrition$356kSocial Science$75kArts & Culture$54kCrime & Legal$50kPhilanthropy$35kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
$60,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY$100,000
PONAGANSET EDUCATION FOUNDATION$60,000
BERKELEY COMMUNITY SCHOLARS$50,000
FUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $512) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOMELESS CHILDRENS PLAYTIME PROJECT: $512 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
PA
RI
CA
UT
SC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 13 repeat orgs$352k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +61% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
12

Total granted

$2.2M
$342k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+61%

Still filing today

77%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionArts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PE
    PONAGANSET EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $440k · revenue +55% · 68% of their budget
  • RM
    ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $400k · revenue +6%
  • BC
    Berkeley Community Scholars DBA Berkeley Community Fund
    7× · 2017–2024 · $336k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • EI
    EDESIA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +64%
  • TR
    The Reset Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • WOFFORD COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $14k · revenue +49%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
4
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
5
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
6
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
7
Dominican University of California

Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.

Education
8
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
9
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
10
Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
11
Uc Berkeley Center for Executive Education

UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education ("CEE") is a nonprofit public benefit corporation dedicated to promoting and advancing education through its executive education programs for corporate and institutional clients seeking continuing…

Education
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Trustees of Dartmouth College: $5,417,930 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth CollegePONAGANSET EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $440,000 · EducationPONAGANSET EDUCATION FOUNDATION+2 more: $3,673 · EducationYMCA OF THE EAST BAY: $400,000 · OtherYMCA OF THE EAST …ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY: $400,000 · OtherROBERT MORRIS UNI…SENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES: $150,000 · OtherSENECA FAMILY OF …UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CAL…SAFE & SOUND: $80,000 · OtherSAFE & SOUNDThe Reset Foundation: $50,000 · Other+9 more: $64,928 · OtherBerkeley Community Scholars DBA Berkeley Community Fund: $335,750 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyEDESIA INC: $250,000 · Food & NutritionSonoma County Grape Growers Foundation: $100,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $5,525 · Food & NutritionTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $75,000 · Social ScienceBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE: $51,750 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $775 · Arts & CultureONE MIND: $10,000 · HealthHEALTHCARE FOUNDATION NORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY: $1,040 · Health
Education$5,861,603Other$1,244,928Philanthropy$360,750Food & Nutrition$355,525Social Science$75,000Arts & Culture$52,525Health$11,040

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $5,417,930 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPONAGANSET EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $440,000 over 8y, 68% of budgetROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY: $400,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBerkeley Community Scholars DBA Berkeley Community Fund: $335,750 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetEDESIA INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSonoma County Grape Growers Foundation: $100,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetSAFE & SOUND: $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE: $51,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Reset Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE: $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE MIND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $5,525 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNuzzles & Co: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $1,673 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHCARE FOUNDATION NORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY: $1,040 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Aurora Theatre Company: $675 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $512 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

East Bay Community Fo…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Luna Foundation IncThe James Irvine Foun…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …Paypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
East Bay Community FoundationCA19× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Luna Foundation Inc · The James Irvine Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Battle Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Battle Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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