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Victor & Clara C Battin Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$628k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
25
Organizations funded FY2024
44%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 53
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$3.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Victor & Clara C Battin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalHealthEducationHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving19$628k21%
FY202425$617k44%
FY202315$547k27%
FY202219$551k63%
FY20218$600k25%
FY20206$100k67%
FY20197$120k86%
FY201853$93k9%
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.2MHealth$729kFood & Nutrition$505kArts & Culture$227kInternational$107kHousing & Shelter$35kCrime & Legal$30kRecreation & Sports$26kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 61 grantees
All grantees of Victor & Clara C Battin Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Read Alliance Inc$1,220,00077%
The Valerie Fund$488,00072%
The Campaign Against Hunger Inc$455,00061%
Angelman Syndrome Foundation Inc$75,00031%
St George Theatre Restoration Inc$75,00031%
International Rescue Committee INC$73,50030%
Center for Science in the Public Interest$47,50020%
Airbnborg Inc$35,00020%
The Paley Center for Media$30,00020%
American Cancer Society Inc$27,50050%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$22,00020%
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc$20,00010%
The Carnegie Hall Society Inc$10,00020%
The Resolution Project Inc$10,00011%
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Inc$10,00011%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$8,00040%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$6,50040%
World Central Kitchen Inc$6,27010%
Friends of the High Line Inc$6,00020%
New York Shakespeare Festival$5,00020%
Barrington Stage Company Inc$5,00020%
Rett Syndrome Research Trust Inc$5,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$4,75020%
The Carnegie Hall Corporation$4,50020%
Public Citizen Inc$3,50020%
Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Inc$3,00020%
Camp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc$2,50010%
The National Black Theatre Workshop$2,50010%
Outward Bound Inc$2,50010%
St Columcille United Gaelic Inc$2,0001n/a
New York City Center Inc$2,00020%
Museum of Arts and Design$2,00020%
Global Empowerment Mission Inc$1,69110%
United States Association for UNHCR$1,50010%
Ahrc New York City Foundation Inc$1,50010%
Visiting Neighbors Inc$1,32520%
New York Historical Society$1,25020%
Salmagundi Club$1,10020%
Ballet Hispanico of New York Inc$1,00020%
The Center for Jewish History Inc$1,00020%
Ice Theatre of New York$1,00010%
American Folk Art Museum$1,00020%
The Children's Aid Society$1,00020%
American Museum of Natural History$1,00010%
Whitney Museum of American Art$1,00010%
Police Athletic League Inc$1,00020%
Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Museum of Modern Art$1,00010%
Citymeals-On-Wheels$1,00020%
Ronald McDonald House of New York Inc$1,0001n/a
The Salvation Army$1,0001n/a
United States Fund for Unicef$78710%
Rubin Museum of Art Aka the Shelley & Donald Rubin Cultural Trust$65020%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$50010%
New York City Ballet Inc$50020%
Center for Italian Modern Art Inc$5001n/a
National Museum of Mathematics$2751n/a
Wave Hill Incorporated$25010%
New York Botanical Garden$22020%
New Museum of Contemporary Art$21020%
Poets House Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($650k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Victor & Clara C Battin Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRead Alliance Inc: $1,220,000 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetThe Valerie Fund: $488,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetThe Campaign Against Hunger Inc: $455,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetAngelman Syndrome Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSt George Theatre Restoration Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $73,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Science in the Public Interest: $47,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAirbnborg Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Paley Center for Media: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Society Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Resolution Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVolunteer Lawyers for the Arts Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $6,270 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the High Line Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Shakespeare Festival: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBarrington Stage Company Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRett Syndrome Research Trust Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $4,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Corporation: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Citizen Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlvin Ailey Dance Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe National Black Theatre Workshop: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOutward Bound Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York City Center Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Arts and Design: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Empowerment Mission Inc: $1,691 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAhrc New York City Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVisiting Neighbors Inc: $1,325 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSalmagundi Club: $1,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBallet Hispanico of New York Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Jewish History Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIce Theatre of New York: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Folk Art Museum: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Aid Society: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPolice Athletic League Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBallet Theatre Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 56.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY21.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · William Randolph Hearst Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Prospect Hill Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Ford 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.

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How do I get to Victor & Clara C Battin Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Victor & Clara C Battin 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.

About Victor & Clara C Battin Foundation

How much does Victor & Clara C Battin Foundation give?
Victor & Clara C Battin Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $627,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 53 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Victor & Clara C Battin Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Health (22%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
Who are Victor & Clara C Battin Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Read Alliance Inc ($1.2M), The Valerie Fund ($488k), The Campaign Against Hunger Inc ($455k).
Does Victor & Clara C Battin Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Victor & Clara C Battin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Victor & Clara C Battin Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008.
Where is Victor & Clara C Battin Foundation based?
Victor & Clara C Battin Foundation is based in NY.

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 107 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-PF 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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