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The Battle Family 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.

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Philanthropy$11MHealth$2.4MEducation$999kRecreation & Sports$190kArts & Culture$100kReligion$34kFood & Nutrition$23kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,573,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$916k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BATTLE LEGACY FOUNDATION$4,000,000
ALICE ANN AND W PATRICK BATTLE FAMI$2,573,000
SHANNON LEIGH BATTLE FAMILY FOUNDAT$2,000,000
MICHAEL C BATTLE FAMILY FOUNDATION$2,000,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BIG OAK RANCH: $3k → 13%BIG OAK RANCH: $3k → 13%BIG OAK RANCH: $3k → 13%BIG OAK RANCH: $3k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 13 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
13

Total granted

$2.5M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+102%

Still filing today

46%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesScience & TechPhilanthropyOther

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

  • AS
    ALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME
    5× · 2018–2023 · $15k · revenue +18%
  • SC
    SHEPHERD CENTER INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $15k · revenue +48%
  • BO
    BIG OAK RANCH INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $10k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • UF
    UAB - FBO MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • UF
    UAB - FBO SINGLE CELL CYTOMETRY EQU
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PERFORMING AR
    one grant, 2021 · $100k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame
Arts & Culture
2
Alabama Sports Hall of Fame Foundation

To operate exclusively for charitable, literary and educational purposes.

Recreation & Sports
3
Wt Stanford Foundation
Philanthropy
4
University of South Alabama Foundation

The university of south alabama foundation was established to support the functions and activities of the university of south alabama. contributions are made directly to the university for and in support of student scholarships, faculty…

Education
5
Stanbridge University Foundation
Education
6
Mississippi Sports Foundation Inc

The organization's mission is to protect, promote and preserve mississippi's rich sports history while operating the mississippi sports hall of fame & museum.

Arts & Culture
7
The University Foundation

The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.

8
Birmingham-Southern College Foundation

The foundation's purpose is philanthropic in nature. at the time of its formation, its scope was limited to the support of the birmingham-southern college through the allocation of funds comprised of donor contributions and income produced…

Education
9
The Birmingham Foundation
10
The Stanford & Joan Alexander Foundation
11
St Anthony Scholarship Foundation

Scholarships to be awarded at The University of Mississippi

Education
12
Alabama Sports Foundation Inc

Alabama sports foundation exists to optimize the athlete experience through performance, education, innovation, and implementation. alabama sports foundation does this with each individual by partnering with teams, clubs, and…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Michael C Battle Family Foundation. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 31 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BATTLE LEGACY FOUNDATION — $4,000,000 · OtherBATTLE LEGACY FOUNDATIONALICE ANN AND W PATRICK BATTLE FAMI — $2,573,000 · OtherALICE ANN AND W PATRICK BATTLE FAMISHANNON LEIGH BATTLE FAMILY FOUNDAT — $2,000,000 · OtherSHANNON LEIGH BATTLE FAMILY FOUNDATMICHAEL C BATTLE FAMILY FOUNDATION — $2,000,000 · OtherMICHAEL C BATTLE FAMILY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA — $1,750,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMAUAB - FBO MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH — $500,000 · OtherUAB - FBO SINGLE CELL CYTOMETRY EQU — $500,000 · Other+14 more — $741,000 · Other5TH QUARTER COACHING INC — $115,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $60,000 · EducationSTUBBS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $11,500 · Education+1 more — $2,500 · EducationPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · HealthSHEPHERD CENTER INC — $15,000 · HealthALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME — $15,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropySABAN CENTER FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Public BenefitBIG OAK RANCH INC — $10,000 · Human Services
Other$14,064,000Education$189,000Health$30,000Arts & Culture$15,000Philanthropy$10,000Public Benefit$10,000Human Services$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMICHAEL C BATTLE FAMILY FOUNDATION — $2,000,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetBIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE — $405,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budget5TH QUARTER COACHING INC — $115,000 over 3y, 54% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME — $15,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC — $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTUBBS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $11,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSABAN CENTER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBIG OAK RANCH INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mike Slive Foundation for Prostate Cancer Research — $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 MICHAEL C BATTLE FAMILY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE
  • Who funds 5TH QUARTER COACHING INC
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME
  • Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC
  • Who funds STUBBS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC
  • Who funds SABAN CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BIG OAK RANCH INC
  • Who funds The Mike Slive Foundation for Prostate Cancer Research
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
  • Who funds TENNESSEE SPORTS HALL OF FAME 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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA7.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 The Battle Family Foundation 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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