· Private foundation
The Battles Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Pan Mass Challenge | $10,000 |
| MSAA | $10,000 |
| Greater Lowell Community Foundation | $5,000 |
| Runway for Recovery | $5,000 |
| Community Teamwork | $5,000 |
| Altrusa International Inc | $5,000 |
| House of Hope | $5,000 |
| Project Learn | $5,000 |
| Boys Girls Club of Greater Lowell | $4,000 |
| UTEC | $4,000 |
| Lowell Catholic High School | $3,500 |
| Dignity Matters | $3,000 |
| Lowell Association For the Blind | $3,000 |
| Merrimack Valley Food Bank | $3,000 |
| Elevate New England | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 9 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HOHOUSE OF HOPE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +31%
- RFRUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $29k · revenue ×17
- PLPROJECT LEARN INC8× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +437%
Funded once
- IFIronstone Farmone grant, 2022 · $5k
- LSLura Smith Family Resiliense Scholaone grant, 2024 · $5k
- FNFRIENDS NEVER FORGETone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
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.
To sustain a strategic alliance of community organizations that improves the overall health and wellness of those living in the greater lowell region. by raising awareness and providing resources for our communities, schools, civic and…
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.
Our mission, vision and values are our guiding light. together, we bring them to life with our care, our actions, our learning and our commitment to excellence.at tufts medicine, we know the power of community. it's that feeling of being…
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
The massachusetts legal assistance corporation provides leadership and support to improve civil legal services to low-income people in massachusetts through collaboration with the legal services community, the legislature, the public, the…
To provide safe, affordable housing for the people who are most vulnerable in our society - low-income and single parent families, the mentally and physically disabled, the homeless, and people with hiv and aids
Lowell makes is a collection of open workshops and laboratories where members and students can collaborate to learn, share, and hone crafts of all kinds. the focus is on providing a space for education, entrepreneurship, and engagement…
Lowell telecommunication corporation's mission is to strengthen the city of lowell as a community media and education center that empowers, connects, and informs all residents, businesses, and organizations in the city. ltc provides…
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 62 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEARN INC ↗
- Who funds UTEC Inc ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOWELL TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOWELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Community Teamwork Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER LOWELL ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC ↗
- Who funds Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds Dignity Matters Inc ↗
- Who funds Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WISH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGE UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds LOWELL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Theodore Edson Parker Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund · Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable Foundation · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · The Saab Family Foundation · We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · Demoulas Foundation · Trustees of the Ayer Home · Greater Lowell Health Alliance Chna 10 Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Battles Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Battles Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Health Law Advocates Inc: 52% of income from government
- Lowell Association for the Blind Inc: 49% of income from government
- Utec Inc: 46% of income from government
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
- Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc: 40% of income from government
- Lowell Community Health Center Inc: 34% of income from government
- Community Teamwork Inc: 23% of income from government
- Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc: 18% of income from government
- The Lowell General Hospital: 5% of income from government
- Project Learn Inc: 5% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc: 4% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc: 3% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Greater Lowell: 3% of income from government
- Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc: 2% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- House of Hope Inc: 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc: 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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