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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.

$407k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$126k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$818kYouth Development$636kPhilanthropy$40kHousing & Shelter$33kHuman Services$10kFood & Nutrition$10kCommunity Improvement$7kHealth$5k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $340,955, the rows itemized in this filing. The $406,795 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $65,840 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $164k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $126k
$12,256
Median grant
8
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%chapman partnership inc: $5k → 15%Detroit Police Athletic Leaque: $10k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 12 repeat orgs$316k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
16

Total granted

$1.2M
$136k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+12%

Still filing today

75%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BB
    Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America
    5× · 2019–2025 · $943k · revenue +311%
  • FI
    FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +57%
  • UO
    University of Miami
    3× · 2019–2022 · $32k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +2%
  • SC
    Spelman College
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -15%
  • FS
    FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -30%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York University

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.

Education
2
University of Miami
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3
Lehigh University

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…

Education
4
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

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…

Education
5
Florida Southern College

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…

Education
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
7
Furman University

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.

Education
8
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Barry University Inc

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,…

Education
11
Fairleigh Dickinson University

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…

Education
12
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Florida Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
15/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America: $942,617 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters Of AmericaMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $40,923 · Other+19 more: $235,109 · Other+19 moreDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $36,726 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITYFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $34,957 · EducationFLORIDA INTERNATION…University of Miami: $31,575 · EducationUniversity of MiamiMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $30,854 · EducationMOREHOUSE COLLEGETHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $28,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UN…Grand Canyon University: $18,204 · EducationGrand Canyon Univer…THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF F…RIDER UNIVERSITY: $14,457 · EducationTHE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $13,382 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $12,813 · EducationSpelman College: $10,056 · EducationHAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationMIAMI BOARDING SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $7,842 · EducationAMERICAN CAMPUS CHARITIES FOUNDATION: $16,138 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $16,045 · PhilanthropyTHE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $8,029 · PhilanthropyDETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,250 · Human ServicesFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,218,649Education$274,866Philanthropy$40,212Human Services$15,250Food & Nutrition$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America: $942,617 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $36,726 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $34,957 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $31,575 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $30,854 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDSANCTUARY CAMPUS FOUNDATION INC: $28,000 over 3y, 69% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $18,204 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CAMPUS CHARITIES FOUNDATION: $16,138 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $16,045 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY: $14,457 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $13,382 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $12,813 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $10,056 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI BOARDING SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $8,029 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $7,842 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPKD Foundation: $5,155 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC6.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Battier Take Charge Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Battier Take Charge Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Battier Take Charge Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Battier Take Charge Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home