GrantmakersPennsylvania

Battram Community Fund Inc

Middleburg, PA · EIN 88-2215820. Reported 32 grants totalling $158,024 to 26 organizations across tax years 2023-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

26organizations funded
$5,000median reported grant
$158,024granted, 2023-2024
55%of grantees funded again the next year
13%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 26 distinct organizations, with 13% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 55% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $5,000. Half of what it reported fell between $3,000 and $5,648; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $10,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
Under $5,000
9 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
20 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Middleburg Community Projects IncMiddleburg, PA$20,000222024
Reliance Hose Co 1Middleburg, PA$15,142222024
Susquehanna UniversitySelinsgrove, PA$13,600222024
East Snyder Regional Recreation AssociationSelinsgrove, PA$10,000222024
Sun Area Career & Technology Education FoundationNew Berlin, PA$10,000222024
Greater Susquehanna Valley YMCASunbury, PA$7,000112024
Middwest School DistrictMiddleburg, PA$7,000112024
Middlecreek Area Community CenterBeaver Springs, PA$6,000112023
Northway Industries IncMiddleburg, PA$5,648112024
Middleburg Revitalization CommitteeMiddleburg, PA$5,434112023
Brighter Financial Futures Inc Pennsylvania Council of FinancialWinfield, PA$5,000112024
Fremont Fire Department and Quick Response SquadMt Pleasant M, PA$5,000112024
Middlecreek TownshipMiddleburg, PA$5,000112023
Millersville University of PennsylvaniaMillersville, PA$5,000112024
Richfield Community CenterRichfield, PA$5,000112024
Selinsgrove Church of the NazareneSelinsgrove, PA$5,000112024
Summer Seals Day CampSelinsgrove, PA$5,000112023
Thaddeus Stevens FoundationLancaster, PA$5,000112024
Expectations Womens CenterLewisburg, PA$3,000112024
Getting Ahead FoundationLewisburg, PA$3,000112024
Mifflinburg Area School DistrictMifflinburg, PA$2,700112024
Birthright of Sunbury IncSunbury, PA$2,000222024
Harvest House Christian FellowshipLewisburg, PA$2,000112024
Jane and Annette M Herr Memorial LibraryMifflinburg, PA$2,000112024
Lewisburg Childrens MuseumLewisburg, PA$2,000112023
John R Kauffman JR Public LibrarySunbury, PA$1,500112024

6 of 26 (23%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 1 group of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 12 of 26 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Education
4 orgs
Recreation & Sports
3 orgs
Community Improvement
1 org
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
1 org
Health Care
1 org
Human Services
1 org
Religion
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202311$54,576$5,000
202421$103,448$5,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

Middleburg, PA
$58K
Selinsgrove, PA
$34K
Sunbury, PA
$10K
New Berlin, PA
$10K
Lewisburg, PA
$10K
Beaver Springs, PA
$6K
Winfield, PA
$5K
Mt Pleasant M, PA
$5K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

First Community Foundation Partnership7 shared recipientsCommunity Giving Foundation6 shared recipientsDegenstein Charitable Foundation5 shared recipientsPpl Foundation5 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund4 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc4 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $5,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Battram Community Fund Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2022-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 434 Paxtonville Road Po Box 277, Middleburg, PA, 17842.

EIN 88-2215820 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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