· Public charity
Battier Take Charge Foundation
BATTIER TAKE CHARGE FOUNDATION ("btcf") helps promising young people from miami, houston, detroit and camden, nj, take charge of their lives and reach their full potenital through college scholarships, mentorsip, networking, and leadership training.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $340,955 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $406,795 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $65,840 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $164k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF AMERICA | $125,991 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $36,726 |
| ROWAN UNIVERSITY | $33,967 |
| STOCKTON UNIVERSITY | $21,450 |
| GRAND CANYON UNIVERISTY | $18,204 |
| FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY | $15,521 |
| TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY | $14,001 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY | $12,256 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| RIDER UNIVERSITY | $9,419 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $9,066 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $7,842 |
| CAMDEN COUNTY COLLEGE | $5,640 |
| FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY | $5,490 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BBBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America5× · 2019–2025 · $943k · revenue +311%
- FIFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +57%
- UOUniversity of Miami3× · 2019–2022 · $32k · revenue +67%
Funded once
THE HOWARD UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +2%- SCSpelman Collegeone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -15%
- MBMIAMI BOARDING SCHOOL INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +11%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Barry university is a catholic institution of higher education founded by the adrian dominican sisters. with a liberal arts tradition, barry university is a scholarly community committed to the highest academic standards in undergraduate,…
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Florida Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Campus Charities Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rowan University Alumni Association ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KIDSANCTUARY CAMPUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CAMPUS CHARITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIDER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
- Who funds MIAMI BOARDING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY FOUNDATIONS OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Battier Take Charge Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Morgan State University Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Rider University — 1% of income from government
- Chapman Partnership Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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