How much does Bitner H M & Evelyn-Char Tr give?

Bitner H M & Evelyn-Char Tr reported 73 grants totaling $81,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 73 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Bitner H M & Evelyn-Char Tr fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Environment (11%), Arts & Culture (9%).

Who are Bitner H M & Evelyn-Char Tr's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: West Virginia Wesleyan College ($43k), San Domenico School ($26k), Northwestern University ($14k).

Does Bitner H M & Evelyn-Char Tr fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Bitner H M & Evelyn-Char Tr accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Bitner H M & Evelyn-Char Tr?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Eqt Foundation, Hillman Family Foundations.

Where is Bitner H M & Evelyn-Char Tr based?

Bitner H M & Evelyn-Char Tr is based in PA.

Bitner H M & Evelyn-Char Tr

Bitner H M & Evelyn-Char Tr at a glance

· Private foundation

Bitner H M & Evelyn-Char Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$81k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$168kEnvironment$53kArts & Culture$42kHealth$42kAnimals$41kHuman Services$29kFood & Nutrition$20kRecreation & Sports$18kOther$0

02FY2025 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SAN DOMENICO SCHOOL	$5,000
CHATHAM UNIVERSITY	$3,500
PBS FOUNDATION	$2,500
LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION	$2,500
KQED	$2,000
MONTESSORI DAY SCHOOL OF CH PRNTS SUPP G	$2,000
WESA 905	$2,000
TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC	$2,000
ALEX'S LEMONADE STAND FDN	$2,000
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK	$2,000
COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL FUND	$2,000
THE HEAL PROJECT	$2,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PENNSYLVAN	$2,000
MAINSPRING CONSERVATION TRUST INC	$2,000
BATES COLLEGE	$2,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$380k · 91 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$380k

$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

+21%

Still filing today

73%

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureHealthOther

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

SD
SAN DOMENICO SCHOOL
6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +29%
Northwestern University
6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +33%
IH
ILLINOIS HORSE RESCUE OF WILL COUNTY INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +85%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2021 · $4k
TC
THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY
one grant, 2020 · $4k
TM
THE MONTESSORI DAY SCHOOL
one grant, 2021 · $3k

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.

The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education

Point Park University

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…

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Furman University

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.

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—

Zoological Society of Pittsburgh

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,…

Animals

University of New Haven

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…

Education

Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

University of Pittsburgh

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…

Education

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

100 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. 100 of the 164 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

100/100

Grantees still filing

71/100

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$195,000Education$127,000Environment$53,000Human Services$30,000Animals$29,500Arts & Culture$27,250Recreation & Sports$17,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

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.

The Pittsburgh FoundationPA17.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bitner H M & Evelyn-Char Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bitner H M & Evelyn-Char Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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