· Private foundation
Victor & Clara C Battin Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $220k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| READ ALLIANCE | $250,000 |
| THE VALERIE FUND | $105,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
| THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER | $55,000 |
| STGEORGE THEATRE RESTORATION | $40,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $30,000 |
| ANGELMAN SYNDROME FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CTR FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTER | $20,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHONA SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $7,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSN OF NYC | $5,000 |
| PUBLIC CITIZEN | $2,500 |
| BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY | $2,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NY | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $457k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +21% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 4 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- RAREAD ALLIANCE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +99%
- TVTHE VALERIE FUND7× · 2017–2025 · $488k · revenue +76%
- TCTHE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC6× · 2019–2025 · $455k · revenue +504%
Funded once
- UFUSA FOR UNHCRone grant, 2019 · $25k
- NYNew York Lawyers for the Public Interest Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +59%
- VLVOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +26%
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.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
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 national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 107 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 READ ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE VALERIE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE THEATRE RESTORATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELMAN SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗
- Who funds AIRBNBORG INC ↗
- Who funds THE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESOLUTION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Carnegie Hall Society Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
- Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN 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: 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
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 Victor & Clara C Battin 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Global Empowerment Mission 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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