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Aj Bitker Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Aj Bitker Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$80k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$179kHealth$128kPublic Benefit$69kCrime & Legal$20kReligion$17kEducation$16kHuman Services$15kFood & Nutrition$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$500
Median grant
7
States reached
$242k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ELAINE$1,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC$1,000
SOJOURNER CENTER$1,000
OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP$600
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$500
UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS$500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$500
CAUSE 4 PAWS PET FOOD BANK$500
LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $1k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $1k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $1k → 11%HOPE WOMEN'S CENTER: $50 → 11%ELAINE: $1k → 11%NEW LIFE CENTER: $1k → 11%NEW LIFE CENTER: $500 → 11%NEW LIFE CENTER: $500 → 11%NEW LIFE CENTER: $500 → 11%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

MN
WI
NY
IN
OH
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$463k · 49 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
19

Total granted

$463k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+27%

Still filing today

59%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalAnimalsOther
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

  • MT
    MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $172k · revenue +95%
  • HF
    HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue +31%
  • SD
    SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $69k · revenue +195%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • SM
    ST MARY'S PROTECTRESS UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • AH
    AMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +106%
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
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
2
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
3
Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

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4
100 Club of Arizona

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.

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5
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

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.

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6
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
7
Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Foundation

Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.

Health
8
Augustana College

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…

Education
9
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
10
Aclu Foundation of Arizona

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.

Civil Rights
11
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

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…

Membership Benefit
12
Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce

Greater phoenix chamber of commerce (the chamber) catalyzes regional prosperity with forward-thinking public policy, intentional economic growth, and diverse, prepared talent.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 73 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/43
Grantees still filing
37/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS: $172,000 · Arts & CultureMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS+4 more: $4,600 · Arts & CultureHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $86,750 · HealthHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION+7 more: $10,400 · Health+7 moreMAYO CLINIC FOUNDATION: $21,000 · OtherMAYO CLINIC FOUNDATIONST LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW: $9,000 · OtherST LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHO…OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP: $6,158 · OtherOUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HE…VILLA DUCHESNE - OAK HILL SCHOOL: $3,500 · OtherST LOUIS SCHOOL OF LAW: $3,500 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INC: $3,400 · OtherUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $5,500 · OtherUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INCPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $4,950 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,500 · Other+36 more: $39,725 · Other+36 moreSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: $68,500 · Community ImprovementSANDRA DAY O'CON…SOJOURNER CENTER: $7,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUIS: $3,000 · Human ServicesNew Life Center: $2,500 · Human ServicesElaine: $1,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $750 · Human Services+2 more: $175 · Human ServicesLEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC: $6,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $4,150 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $250 · Crime & LegalSAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE: $6,500 · EducationST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $1,500 · Education+2 more: $200 · Education
Arts & Culture$176,600Health$97,150Other$101,233Community Improvement$68,500Human Services$14,425Crime & Legal$10,400Education$8,200

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 budgetMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS: $172,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $86,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: $68,500 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetSOJOURNER CENTER: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE: $6,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC: $6,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $5,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $4,950 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $4,150 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $3,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $3,360 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUIS: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew Life Center: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELEVATE PHOENIX: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $1,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE PINK HOUSES OF HOPE: $1,700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMELISSA'S HOUSE: $1,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAUSE4PAWS PET FOOD BANK: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA EQUAL JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetElaine: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTTSDALE ARTS: $650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Humane Society: $650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCKENZIE MONKS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWISCONSIN EQUAL JUSTICE FUND INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION: $125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETA THETA PI FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BIRD SANCTUARY: $100 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.

  • 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 ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC ↗
  • Who funds New Life Center ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC ↗
  • Who funds ELEVATE PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE PINK HOUSES OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds MELISSA'S HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CAUSE4PAWS PET FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗

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.

Arizona Community Fou…Thunderbirds CharitiesVirginia G Piper Char…St Louis Community Fo…The Diane and Bruce H…The Foundation for Co…St Louis Community Fo…John F Long Foundatio…American Express Foun…Tw Lewis FoundationThe Kemper & Ethel Ma…Arizona Cardinals Fou…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ26.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Aj Bitker Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aj Bitker Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 73 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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