· Public charity
Battram Community Fund Inc
To promote social welfare in the central susquehanna valley region and to further the common good and general welfare of the people of the community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SELINSGROVE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $30,000 |
| SELINSGROVE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE | $10,000 |
| THADDEUS STEVENS CLG TECH SCHOLRSHP | $10,000 |
| MIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY PROJECTS INC | $10,000 |
| RELIANCE HOSE COMPANY NO 1 | $5,139 |
| SELINSGROVE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS | $5,000 |
| WILLIAM CAMERON ENGINE COMPANY | $5,000 |
| GREAT SUSQ VLY YMCAMIDDLECREEK | $5,000 |
| SUN AREA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| FREEBURG BOROUGH | $5,000 |
| MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP | $5,000 |
| T1D CAMPERS HIP FUND | $4,500 |
| WQSU SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| HARVEST HOUSE CF FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 +2% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- RHRELIANCE HOSE COMPANY #13× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +24%
- SUSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue +11%
- SASUN AREA CAREER & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- MSMIDD-WEST SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2024 · $7k
- WSWEST SNYDER RECREATION ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -77%
- NINORTHWAY INDUSTRIES INCone grant, 2024 · $6k
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.
To provide fire and emergency services to community
Provide fire protection and rescue services to the community
Fire fighting & prevention, and emergency medical serivices
Public library
The reliance fire company no 1 is a volunteer fire company providing fire protecting to all citizens of the philipsburg, pa and the surrounding areas and provides assistance to other volunteer fire companies as needed
Provides volunteer fire protection and rescue services to the seelyville, pa and surrounding area.
Monessen Public Library provides collection facilities and services to the people of the Monessen community, which assists them in fulfilling their need for information, research sources, and cultural enrichment.
Provide trained personnel and equipment to protect life and property in wayne township and the surrounding area against the ravages of fire
Fire protection and emergency services for williamsburg, pa and supporting the surrounding communities. promote the value of fire and water safety in schools, etc
Volunteer fire company
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Snyder Recreation Association and the most unlike its peers is Richfield Community Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 33 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
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 MIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY PROJECTS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds RELIANCE HOSE COMPANY #1 ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SUN AREA CAREER & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Susquehanna Valley YMCA ↗
- Who funds FREMONT FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEALS DAY CAMP ↗
- Who funds WEST SNYDER RECREATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EXPECTATIONS WOMENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SELINSGROVE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTER FINANCIAL FUTURES ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM CAMERON ENGINE COMPANY OF LEWISBURG PA ↗
- Who funds RICHFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SETEBAID SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE GETTING AHEAD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT OF SUNBURY INC ↗
- Who funds JANE AND ANNETTE M HERR MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds JOHN R KAUFFMAN JR PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds LEWISBURG CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Giving Foundation · Degenstein Charitable Foundation · First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania · The 1994 Charles B Degenstein Fdn · Ppl Foundation · Degenstein Charles B Fdn-Char Tr · Fern & Gladys Moyer Memorial Trust · Sunbury Northumberland Commtr · 2006 Edward S Rosenblum Foundation · The Middleswarth Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Battram Community Fund Inc 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.
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.
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