Skip to content
Battram Community Fund Inc at a glance

· 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.

$124k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$108kPublic Safety & Disaster$32kRecreation & Sports$29kHuman Services$29kYouth Development$20kFood & Nutrition$15kHealth$12kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
$4,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$56k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SELINSGROVE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT$30,000
SELINSGROVE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE$10,000
MIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY PROJECTS INC$10,000
THADDEUS STEVENS CLG TECH SCHOLRSHP$10,000
RELIANCE HOSE COMPANY NO 1$5,139
WILLIAM CAMERON ENGINE COMPANY$5,000
SELINSGROVE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS$5,000
MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP$5,000
FREEBURG BOROUGH$5,000
GREAT SUSQ VLY YMCAMIDDLECREEK$5,000
SUN AREA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE$5,000
T1D CAMPERS HIP FUND$4,500
WQSU SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
EXPECTATIONS WOMENS CENTER$3,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE GETTING AHEAD FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%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.
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$182k · 17 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +2% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
9

Total granted

$182k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
0%

Still filing today

71%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsReligionPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesOther
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

  • RH
    RELIANCE HOSE COMPANY #1
    3× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +24%
  • SU
    SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue +11%
  • TS
    THADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • MS
    MIDD-WEST SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
  • WS
    WEST SNYDER RECREATION ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -77%
  • NI
    NORTHWAY INDUSTRIES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
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
Summerhill Township Volunteer Fire Co

To provide fire and emergency services to community

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Wilpen Fire Co of Ligonier Township

Provide fire protection and rescue services to the community

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Reamstown Fire Company

Fire fighting & prevention, and emergency medical serivices

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Reynoldsville Public Library

Public library

—
5
Reliance Fire Company No 1

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

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Seelyville Fire Company

Provides volunteer fire protection and rescue services to the seelyville, pa and surrounding area.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Monessen Public Library

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.

—
8
Summit Station Fire Company

Provide trained personnel and equipment to protect life and property in wayne township and the surrounding area against the ravages of fire

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Williamsburg Volunteer Fire Co 1

Fire protection and emergency services for williamsburg, pa and supporting the surrounding communities. promote the value of fire and water safety in schools, etc

—
10
Reliance Fire Co No 1 of Berwick Pennsylvania

Volunteer fire company

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Simsbury Free Library
Education
12
Shenango Area Fire District

Responds nbsp;to nbsp;fire nbsp;calls nbsp;vehicle nbsp;accidents nbsp;water nbsp;rescue nbsp;and nbsp;other nbsp;human nbsp;disasters nbsp;trains nbsp;and nbsp;educates nbsp;both nbsp;volunteer nbsp;firemen nbsp;and nbsp;the nbsp;general…

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Snyder Recreation Association; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
9/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SELINSGROVE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $30,000 · OtherSELINSGROVE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICTRELIANCE HOSE COMPANY #1: $20,281 · OtherRELIANCE HOSE COMPANY #1SELINSGROVE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE: $15,000 · OtherSELINSGROVE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENEGreater Susquehanna Valley YMCA: $13,500 · OtherGreater Susquehanna Valley YMCAMILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 · OtherMILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAEAST SNYDER REGIONAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · OtherEAST SNYDER REGIONAL RECREATION ASSOCIATIONMIDD-WEST SCHOOL DISTRICT: $7,000 · OtherWEST SNYDER RECREATION ASSOCIATION: $6,000 · Other+15 more: $60,782 · Other+15 moreSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY: $17,600 · EducationSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERS…THADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationTHADDEUS STEVENS FO…SUN AREA CAREER & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationSUN AREA CAREER & T…MIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY PROJECTS INCORPORATED: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsMIDDLEBURG COM…SUMMER SEALS DAY CAMP: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsSUMMER SEALS D…EXPECTATIONS WOMENS CENTER: $6,000 · HealthSETEBAID SERVICES INC: $4,500 · HealthFREMONT FIRE DEPARTMENT: $7,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSELINSGROVE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $5,000 · ReligionTHE GETTING AHEAD FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Human Services
Other$172,563Education$47,600Recreation & Sports$36,000Health$10,500Public Safety & Disaster$7,000Religion$5,000Human Services$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY PROJECTS INCORPORATED: $30,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetRELIANCE HOSE COMPANY #1: $20,281 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY: $17,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSUN AREA CAREER & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetGreater Susquehanna Valley YMCA: $13,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFREMONT FIRE DEPARTMENT: $7,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWEST SNYDER RECREATION ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSUMMER SEALS DAY CAMP: $6,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetEXPECTATIONS WOMENS CENTER: $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSELINSGROVE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetBRIGHTER FINANCIAL FUTURES: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRICHFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSETEBAID SERVICES INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT OF SUNBURY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetLEWISBURG CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $3,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJANE AND ANNETTE M HERR MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE GETTING AHEAD FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

Community Giving Foun…Degenstein Charitable…First Community Found…The 1994 Charles B De…Ppl FoundationDegenstein Charles B …Fern & Gladys Moyer M…Sunbury Northumberlan…2006 Edward S Rosenbl…The Middleswarth Foun…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Giving FoundationPA26× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Battram Community Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Battram Community Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Battram Community Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Battram Community Fund Inc 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.

    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 33 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Battram’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home