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Bitker Gould Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$305k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of BITKER GOULD FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
$250
Median grant
14
States reached
$996k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$200,000
THE LIVING DESERT$50,000
FLOOR COVERING INDUSTRY FOUNDATION$10,000
RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS' FESTIVAL$10,000
MAYO CLINIC FOUNDATION$10,000
EISENHOWER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
REACH OUT & READ$8,000
TEMPLE EMANUEL$2,200
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$500
Individual grant recipient$250
USO$250
ALS ASSOCIATION$250
US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$250
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE FOOD DEPOT: $2k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%THE FOOD DEPOT: $500 → 12%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $250 → 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $250 → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
MO
VA
AZ
NM
KS
NC
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 59 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

59 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
43

Total granted

$1.1M
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+11%

Still filing today

39%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationInternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • SL
    ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $323k · revenue +401%
  • LD
    LIVING DESERT THE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +84%
  • FC
    FLOOR COVERING INDUSTRY FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • IF
    IMMUNOTHERAPY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -89%
  • CD
    CHILDRENS DISCOVERY INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • TC
    THE CHASE-DAP HEALTH
    one grant, 2023 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
2
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
3
New York University

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.

Education
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

7
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
8
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

9
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
10
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
11
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
12
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pets Going Places. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Health CentersLand Conservation Organizat…Jewish Community FederationsGovernment Accountability R…Veteran Support ServicesPublic School District Foun…Animal Rescue and AdoptionFood Pantries & AssistanceIndependent K-8 SchoolsDevelopmental Disabilities …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Elementary Literacy TutoringCancer Support Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%54%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/48
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,517

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 108 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/43
Grantees still filing
28/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC - OROPHARYNGEAL RESEARCH — $125,000 · OtherMAYO CLINIC - OROPHARYNGEAL RESEARCHST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL — $55,000 · OtherST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITALFLOOR COVERING INDUSTRY FOUNDATION INC — $52,500 · OtherFLOOR COVERING INDUSTRY FOUNDATION INCEISENHOWER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $47,500 · OtherEISENHOWER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION+79 more — $193,820 · Other+79 moreST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $322,690 · HealthST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUN…+8 more — $20,200 · Health+8 moreLIVING DESERT THE — $205,000 · EnvironmentLIVING DESERT THEAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION — $17,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN FRIENDS OF C…+2 more — $250 · EnvironmentREACH OUT AND READ INC — $48,500 · EducationRANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL — $30,500 · EducationJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL — $3,000 · Education+2 more — $2,100 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $7,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOOD DEPOT — $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION — $500 · Human Services+1 more — $100 · Human ServicesHOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC — $5,600 · PhilanthropyTHE KYLE PEASE FOUNDATION INC — $500 · PhilanthropySafe Parking LA — $5,750 · Housing & Shelter
Other$473,820Health$342,890Environment$222,250Education$84,100Human Services$10,100Philanthropy$6,100Housing & Shelter$5,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $322,690 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE — $205,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFLOOR COVERING INDUSTRY FOUNDATION INC — $52,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC — $48,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL — $30,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION — $17,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetIMMUNOTHERAPY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Parking LA — $5,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC — $5,600 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLIVING OPPORTUNITIES INC — $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $4,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $3,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMELISSA'S HOUSE — $3,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $2,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOD DEPOT — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $2,050 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLadue Education Foundation — $1,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF THE DESERT — $595 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ARTS IN ACTION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KYLE PEASE FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $225 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LIVING DESERT THE
  • Who funds FLOOR COVERING INDUSTRY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC
  • Who funds RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION
  • Who funds IMMUNOTHERAPY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC
  • Who funds Safe Parking LA
  • Who funds HOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds LIVING OPPORTUNITIES INC
  • Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN
  • Who funds Northwestern University
  • Who funds JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL
  • Who funds MELISSA'S HOUSE
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Bitker Gould Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 9%
  • Living Opportunities Inc90% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc9% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc4% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 108 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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