Virginia · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF WILDERNESS BATTLEFIELD INC
FRIENDS OF WILDERNESS BATTLEFIELD INC (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $300 to it, the largest being SILVER FOUNDATION INC ($250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2018
- $44k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $300
- Net assets
- $68k
What Friends of Wilderness Battlefield Inc does
Mission
The purpose of the Friends of Wilderness Battlefield is to assist the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park in its efforts to preserve the Wilderness Battlefield in Spotsylvania and Orange counties, Virginia. The organization provides advocacy, educational programs, and funding for service and restoration projects on the battlefield.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Friends of Wilderness Battlefield (FOWB) has worked to assist the National Park Service preserve, protect and educate the public about the Wilderness battlefield by working to restore and staff Ellwood Manor on the battlefield with volunteers. Approximately 5000 people visited Ellwood in 2018. Archeology work was done in 2018 to allow for a new well and drain field that will enable toilets to be added to the site.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 2017 to 2018, from $65k to $68k (+4%).
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 FRIENDS OF WILDERNESS BATTLEFIELD INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $50 → $250.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF WILDERNESS BATTLEFIELD INC’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
FRIENDS OF WILDERNESS BATTLEFIELD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 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
FRIENDS OF WILDERNESS BATTLEFIELD INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.
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
FRIENDS OF WILDERNESS BATTLEFIELD INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,675 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,675 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2018
Organizations like FRIENDS OF WILDERNESS BATTLEFIELD INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF WILDERNESS BATTLEFIELD INC: 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 FRIENDS OF WILDERNESS BATTLEFIELD INC?
- FRIENDS OF WILDERNESS BATTLEFIELD INC (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $300 to it, the largest being SILVER FOUNDATION INC ($250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF WILDERNESS BATTLEFIELD INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $300 in grants to FRIENDS OF WILDERNESS BATTLEFIELD INC.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF WILDERNESS BATTLEFIELD INC?
- SILVER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF WILDERNESS BATTLEFIELD INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 2 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