· Public charity
American Battlefield Trust
The American Battlefield Trust preserves America's hallowed battlegrounds and educates the public about what happened there and why it matters.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of American Battlefield Trust’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $3,272,974 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,442,878 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $169,904 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $74k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $328k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Franklin's Charge Inc | $2,100,000 |
| Virginia Department of Historic Resources Board | $771,474 |
| Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation | $180,000 |
| North American Land Trust | $85,000 |
| Capital Region Land Conservancy | $62,500 |
| Land Conservancy of Adams Co Inc | $29,000 |
| Battle of Nashville Trust Inc | $25,000 |
| Americans for Battlefield Preservation | $20,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 91% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 68% of American Battlefield Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $859k 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
- FCFRANKLINS CHARGE INC3× · 2020–2025 · $2.5M · revenue ×313
- SBSC BATTLEGROUND PRESERVATION TRUST5× · 2020–2024 · $660k · revenue +108%
- SVSHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2025 · $389k · revenue +152%
Funded once
- COCommonwealth of Kentucky Kentucky Heritage Councilone grant, 2024 · $250k
- SCSTAFFORD COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $150k
- OROZARK REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC DBA OZARK LAND TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $138k · revenue +37%
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 protect american civil war battlefields and historic sites in the central virginia region through acquisitions and other strategies.
Were on a mission to keep history alive. since 2016, friends of honey hill has been dedicated to preserving the lowcountry of south carolinas most remarkable civil war battlefields. but were not just about protecting the landwere here to…
The preservation of the gettysburg battlefield as a national memorial and to stimulate interest in the gettysburg battlefield as a patriotic shrine.
To conserve the rural, natural, and cultural heritage of the new river region, protecting farms, forests, open spaces, and historic places.
The American Battlefield Trust preserves America's hallowed battlegrounds and educates the public about what happened there and why it matters. The purpose of the American Battlefield Trust is to inspire appreciation of America, its…
The organization acquires and preserves land adjacent to san jacinto battleground state historic site for conservation purposes and sponsors archeology studies and public education concerning the battle of san jacinto.
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
The purpose of the barrington land conservation trust is to protect and steward our local natural, scenic historic open spaces. blct will advocate on behalf of protection for these lands and work to educate the public about these resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Operation Nightingale Usa. 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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 13% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 40 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 FRANKLINS CHARGE INC ↗
- Who funds REFLECTION RIDING ARBORETUM AND NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SC BATTLEGROUND PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OZARK REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC DBA OZARK LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Americans For Battlefield Preservation ↗
- Who funds Natural Lands Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds LAND CONSERVANCY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL REGION LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON BATTLEFIELD SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAVE HISTORIC ANTIETAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FRANKLIN PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds BATTLE OF NASHVILLE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE WEST VIRGINIA LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Operation Nightingale USA ↗
- Who funds MINUTE MAN NATIONAL PARK ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds TREVILIAN STATION BATTLEFIELD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORIC GREEN SPRINGS 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation · Land Trust Alliance Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Pam Lewis Foundation · Appalachian Trail Conservancy · The Nature Conservancy · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 American Battlefield Trust 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.
- Minute Man National Park Assoc Inc — 1% 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.