New York · Nonprofit
Business Training Institute Inc
Business Training Institute Inc (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $27,900 to it, the largest being BANK OF UTICA FOUNDATION INC ($27,900). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $28k
- Net assets
- $257k
What Business Training Institute Inc does
Mission
The mission of BTI is to function as a not-for-profit organization that is recognized as a community leader in educational services aimed at positive results through changing individuals' behaviors. (Continued on Schedule O)BTI is a community based organization that provides innovative and quality programs and services to promote self-help for youth, parents, families, and the community at large. BTI helps people meet the most basic and critical needs while improving their ability to become self-supporting.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
21st Century Community Learning Center - This program provides after-school activities for low performing students and their families in the Utica City School District at JFK and Donovan Middle Schools and Proctor High School. Some of the activities provided include tutoring, family learning series, career exploration, entrepreneurship, college bound, financial management, health and wellness, theater, drama and Performing Arts. This program is funded by government contributions that amounted to $948,881.
$872,120 spent72% of program spendingExtended Day - This program provides after-school programming to increase student achievement, provide enrichment activities and decrease school violence for The Utica City School District at Proctor High School. Some after school activities that BTI provides are The Please Stand Up! Anti-Violence Programs, Tutoring, Mentoring, Character Education/Service Learning and Career Education Programs. This program is funded by government contributions that amounted to $366,052.
$333,021 spent28% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,205,141.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $259k to $400k (+54%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 99% · 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% · 2024 99% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Dr Patricia Laino
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of Business Training Institute Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Business Training Institute Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding Business Training Institute Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $450k on record.
- Small Business Administration$450k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Business Training Institute Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Business Training Institute Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Business Training Institute Inc?
- Business Training Institute Inc (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $27,900 to it, the largest being BANK OF UTICA FOUNDATION INC ($27,900). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Business Training Institute Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $27,900 in grants to Business Training Institute Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Business Training Institute Inc?
- BANK OF UTICA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $27,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Business Training Institute Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing