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Bitner H M & Evelyn-Char Tr
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN DOMENICO SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CHATHAM UNIVERSITY | $3,500 |
| LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION | $2,500 |
| PBS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| MAINSPRING CONSERVATION TRUST INC | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PENNSYLVAN | $2,000 |
| MONTESSORI DAY SCHOOL OF CH PRNTS SUPP G | $2,000 |
| WESA 905 | $2,000 |
| BATES COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| THE HEAL PROJECT | $2,000 |
| COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL FUND | $2,000 |
| ALEX'S LEMONADE STAND FDN | $2,000 |
| TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% 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 +23% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
91 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 12 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- SDSAN DOMENICO SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +29%
Northwestern University6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +33%- IHILLINOIS HORSE RESCUE OF WILL COUNTY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $4k
- TCTHE CARNEGIE LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $4k
- TMTHE MONTESSORI DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Education and Research
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Carolina Poodle Rescue. 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 44 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 2% 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.
100 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. 100 of the 164 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 WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SAN DOMENICO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS HORSE RESCUE OF WILL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEAL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Chicago Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds WQED MULTIMEDIA ↗
- Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH ↗
- Who funds OLD TRAIL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds VIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds International Association for the Study of Dreams ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAMI San Mateo County ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds BENTLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Peter C Dozzi Family Foundation Aka Eugene Dozzi Charitable Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · Atkinson Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore 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 Bitner H M & Evelyn-Char Tr 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Bentley University — 1% 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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