· Private foundation
Aj Bitker Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HONOR HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE | $13,450 |
| MUNICIPAL THEATER ASSOC OF ST LOUIS | $5,000 |
| ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| URBAN MONTESSORI INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ARIZONA | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| ELAINE | $1,000 |
| SOJOURNER CENTER | $1,000 |
| OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP | $600 |
| UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS | $500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $500 |
| CAUSE 4 PAWS PET FOOD BANK | $500 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $500 |
| LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI | $500 |
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 (FY17–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +50% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- MTMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS8× · 2017–2024 · $172k · revenue +95%
- HFHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue +31%
- SDSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY8× · 2017–2024 · $69k · revenue +195%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $1k
- SMST MARY'S PROTECTRESS UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $1k
- AHAMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELSgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +106%
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.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.
To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The mission of the aclu foundation of arizona is to defend and preserve, through litigation and public education, individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the constitution and the laws of the united states and arizona.
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
Greater phoenix chamber of commerce (the chamber) catalyzes regional prosperity with forward-thinking public policy, intentional economic growth, and diverse, prepared talent.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mckenzie Monks 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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 73 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 MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds New Life Center ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds LITTLE PINK HOUSES OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAUSE4PAWS PET FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MELISSA'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds AMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS ↗
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: Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · St Louis Community Foundation · John F Long Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Tw Lewis Foundation · The Kemper & Ethel Marley Fdn · Arizona Cardinals 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 Aj Bitker Charitable 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.
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.