· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $875k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RRARE4× · 2019–2023 · $8.0M · revenue +14%
- WCWildlife Conservation Society5× · 2019–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +52%
- AWAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +27%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA EQUITY CENTEone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATEDone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +21%- DMDEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone 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.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
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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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
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.
The mission of the nature conservancy is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends.
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
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.
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…
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…
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.
How this is measured
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.
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 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.
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
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.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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