Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Americans For Battlefield Preservation
Americans For Battlefield Preservation (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,350 to it, the largest being American Battlefield Trust ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $22k
What Americans For Battlefield Preservation does
Mission
The mission of Americans for Battlefield Preservation (AFBP) is to promote awareness of our nation's endangered historic battlegrounds and related sites. It is a strictly non-partisan organization that seeks to build support for battlefield preservation among lawmakers on all levels of government. In addition, AFBP supports public funding for battlefield preservation and trains local advocates to successfully conduct community grassroots organizing, fundraising, and media relations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
America's preserved battlefields serve as outdoor classrooms that educate the public about the military conflicts that transformed our history and define us as a nation. It is a strictly non-partisan organization that seeks to build support for battlefield preservation among lawmakers on all levels of government. The organization educates lawmakers about issues and legislation related to battlefield preservation.
$9,900 spent37% of program spendingAFBP coordinates with lawmakers on all levels of government to allocate public funds and to provide other means of support for battlefield preservation.
$17,133 spent63% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $27,033.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $164k to $57k (−65%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of Americans For Battlefield Preservation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $100.
From the IRS filings of Americans For Battlefield Preservation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Americans For Battlefield Preservation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Americans For Battlefield Preservation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Americans For Battlefield Preservation's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Americans For Battlefield Preservation's revenue fell 59% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 14 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Americans For Battlefield Preservation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Americans For Battlefield Preservation?
- Americans For Battlefield Preservation (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,350 to it, the largest being American Battlefield Trust ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Americans For Battlefield Preservation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $100,350 in grants to Americans For Battlefield Preservation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Americans For Battlefield Preservation?
- American Battlefield Trust is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Americans For Battlefield Preservation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing