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The Dn Batten Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$12MAnimals$10MEducation$3.6MHealth$3.0MYouth Development$2.3MHousing & Shelter$1.5MEmployment$700kPhilanthropy$510kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+8 grants · $3.5M
$90,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY$1,000,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL VIRG$450,000
CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY SCHOOLS$400,000
NETWORK2WORK USA$400,000
AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$362,840
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$350,000
FOREST TRENDS$300,000
THE SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST$250,000
APPALACHIAN VOICES$200,000
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$150,000
THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE$125,000
BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA$120,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION$100,000
CAF AMERICA$90,000
COMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE$75,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 39% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $1.1M → 28%AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $250k → 14%RARE INC: $2.0M → 7%HOLLINS UNIVERSITY: $255k → 8%AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY FUND: $500k → 8%SHENANDOAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $210k → 12%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $350k → 19%UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDAT: $620k → 6%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $1.0M → 28%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $250k → 14%RARE INC: $2.0M → 7%AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY FUND: $500k → 8%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $1.0M → 28%AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $250k → 14%RARE INC: $2.0M → 7%AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY FUND: $500k → 8%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $1.0M → 28%RARE INC: $2.0M → 7%PVCC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $300k → 8%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $1.0M → 28%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $3.1M → 14%THE SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST: $250k → 8%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $685k → 14%APPALACHIAN VOICES: $200k → 8%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $534k → 14%APPALACHIAN VOICES: $200k → 8%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $416k → 14%APPALACHIAN VOICES: $200k → 8%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $363k → 14%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $150k → 8%FOREST TRENDS: $300k → 14%PVCC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $150k → 8%FOREST TRENDS: $200k → 14%FOREST TRENDS: $200k → 14%EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL: $150k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA EQUITY CENTE: $1.0M → 8%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL VIRG: $950k → 8%FOCUSED ULTRASOUND SURGERY FOUNDATI: $500k → 8%FOCUSED ULTRASOUND SURGERY FOUNDATI: $500k → 8%FOCUSED ULTRASOUND SURGERY FOUNDATI: $500k → 8%FOCUSED ULTRASOUND SURGERY FOUNDATI: $500k → 8%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL VIRG: $450k → 8%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL VIRG: $450k → 8%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL VIRG: $450k → 8%NETWORK2WORK USA: $400k → 8%CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY SCHOOLS: $400k → 8%NETWORK2WORK USA: $250k → 8%CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY SCHOOL: $200k → 8%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32M · 31 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
6

Total granted

$32M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+184%

Still filing today

68%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $875k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationAnimalsCivil RightsCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • R
    RARE
    4× · 2019–2023 · $8.0M · revenue +14%
  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Society
    5× · 2019–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +52%
  • AW
    AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA EQUITY CENTE
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +21%
  • DM
    DEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +416%
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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
4
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
5
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
6
The Nature Conservancy

The mission of the nature conservancy is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends.

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7
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
8
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
9
United States Endowment for Forestry

The endowment works collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic, transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation's working forests and forest reliant communities.

Environment
10
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
11
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
12
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is The Affordable Housing Opportunity Fund. 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

30 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. 30 of the 45 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
25/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RARE: $8,000,000 · EnvironmentRAREAPPALACHIAN VOICES: $700,000 · EnvironmentAPPALACHIAN VOICESAMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $500,000 · Environment+5 more: $1,170,000 · Environment+5 moreWildlife Conservation Society: $5,150,000 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation SocietyAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $5,097,663 · AnimalsAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $120,000 · AnimalsBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL VIRG: $2,300,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRA…FOCUSED ULTRASOUND SURGERY FOUNDATI: $2,000,000 · OtherFOCUSED ULTRASOUND SURGERY FO…UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA EQUITY CENTE: $1,000,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA EQUITY…FOREST TRENDS: $816,000 · OtherFOREST TRENDSPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $510,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $450,000 · OtherCHARLOTTESVILLE CITY SCHOOLS: $400,000 · OtherTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $425,000 · Other+13 more: $1,181,250 · Other+13 moreTHE AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY FUND: $1,500,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $270,000 · PhilanthropySHENANDOAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $210,000 · PhilanthropyUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $700,000 · EducationPIEDMONT VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $450,000 · EducationHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $285,000 · EducationTHE MONROE INSTITUTE: $110,000 · Education+3 more: $85,000 · EducationNETWORK2WORK USA: $700,000 · EmploymentEARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $400,000 · Civil RightsDEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Civil Rights
Environment$10,370,000Animals$10,367,663Other$9,082,250Philanthropy$1,980,000Education$1,630,000Employment$700,000Civil Rights$500,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRARE: $8,000,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $5,150,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $5,097,663 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetTHE AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY FUND: $1,500,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $700,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetNETWORK2WORK USA: $700,000 over 3y, 83% of budgetAPPALACHIAN VOICES: $700,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $500,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetPIEDMONT VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $450,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $425,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetEARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $400,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $325,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE: $315,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $285,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $270,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST: $250,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHENANDOAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $210,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT COLLABORATIVE: $150,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA: $120,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE MONROE INSTITUTE: $110,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetDEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPEABODY SCHOOL: $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNTAIN FUND: $30,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE NORFOLK ACADEMY: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CLIMATE PARTNERS: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTectonic Theater Project Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

  • Who funds RARE ↗
  • Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY FUND ↗
  • Who funds US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NETWORK2WORK USA ↗
  • Who funds APPALACHIAN VOICES ↗
  • Who funds AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PIEDMONT VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds SHENANDOAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY INVESTMENT COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA ↗
  • Who funds THE MONROE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds DEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PEABODY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNTAIN FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE NORFOLK ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CLIMATE PARTNERS ↗

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.

Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA29.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Genan Foundation · Sentara Health · The Hartfield Fdn Inc 0739-80-42 · Cassiopeia Foundation Inc · Westwind Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · The Oak Hill Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · The Farkas Family Foundation · Quantitative Foundation · Praxis Foundation (The)

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 The Dn Batten Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dn Batten Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Dn Batten Foundation 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 45 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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