Ohio · Nonprofit
BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Ohio) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,106,371 to it, the largest being THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ($3,165,121). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 42 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 42 science & tech nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Scripps Research Instituteshared fundersportfolio match
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared funders
- Windsor Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 81% · 2018 82% · 2019 88% · 2020 88% · 2021 88% · 2022 89% · 2023 89% · 2024 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (38% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $607k → $3.8M.
5 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. 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
BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
75% 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 BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 31% · 2019 21% · 2020 35% · 2021 29% · 2022 38% · 2023 28% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
33% of BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 38 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Scripps Research Instituteshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 92 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 146 organizations that share your funders
- Windsor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kent Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James M Stoneman Charitable Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sunita and Brian Pereira Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fidelity Non-Profit Management Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James & Virginia Welch Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arthur S & Marilyn Penn Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- President and Fellows of Harvard Collegeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Multiple Sclerosis Societyshared fundersNY · backs 116 organizations that share your funders
- The V Foundationshared fundersNC · backs 92 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.6B on record — $18.6B federal, $174k state.
- Department of Energy$12.8B
- Department of Defense$3.1B
- National Science Foundation$1.0B
- Department of Health and Human Services$945.9M
- Department of Homeland Security$273.4M
- General Services Administration$138.8M
- FL$135k
- OK$39k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 12 states
Part of a family of 19 related entities
- Battelle National Biodefense Institute LLC · disregarded
- Battelle Energy Alliance LLC · disregarded
- Battelle Savannah River Alliance LLC · disregarded
- Battelle Education · exempt
- National Ecological Observatory Network Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE?
- BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Ohio) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,106,371 to it, the largest being THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ($3,165,121). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $19,106,371 in grants to BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE?
- THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK is the largest funder on record, with $3,165,121 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 38funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing