Endangered Battlefield Defense Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271035136
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2023671861
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David Duncan (President)
People named in this filing
- John L Nau III (Chairman)
- David Duncan (President)
- Noah Mehrkam (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To operate for the benefit of, to perform functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the American Battlefield Trust.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Endangered Battlefield Defense Fund (EBDF) is a 501(c)(3) organization affiliated with the American Battlefield Trust (the Trust) established to:- Assist the Trust in the exercise and enforcement of the Trust's contractual and legal rights and duties, including but not limited to the protection and preservation of all historic property owned by the Trust;- Enforce all easement rights granted to the Trust or to any other charitable or historic entity, including the National Park Service, in its or their efforts to maintain and preserve historical properties related to the American Civil War; and- Enforce all contractual rights and court decrees or judgments in favor of the Trust or any other charitable, historic, or public entity charged with the preservation of historical property relating to the Civil War.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 41
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 50%; rating input score 50; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -53.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -49.8% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.8% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.