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Bittel Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$15k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222025.

Education$1.2MCommunity Improvement$186kPhilanthropy$125kHealth$51kArts & Culture$15kReligion$14kCivil Rights$10kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNREPORTED STORY SOCIETY$15,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 89% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNREPORTED STORY SOCIETY: $15k → 14%HISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $50k → 17%FLORIDA ADVANCEMENT PROJECT: $100k → 15%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $200k → 7%DYNASTY PARTNERS: $172k → 17%TEMPLE BETH AM: $10k → 15%JEWISH BUSINESS NETWORK: $36k → 17%TEMPLE BETH AM: $4k → 15%DYNASTY PARTNERS: $36k → 17%FRIENDS OF MIAMI ANIMALS: $2k → 15%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $100k → 15%MOUNT SINAI: $20k → 15%THE MIAMI FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $1.0M → 15%MOUNT SINAI: $10k → 15%NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION LLC: $10k → 15%NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION LLC: $10k → 15%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.

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.

16%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$272k · 4 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$272k
$1.4M

Still filing today

0%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsArts & 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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $208k
  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI
    2× · 2022–2024 · $30k
  • NC
    NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION LLC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Miamigraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +29%
  • BC
    Bowdoin Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +27%
  • FA
    FLORIDA ADVANCEMENT PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +22%

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.

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University of Miami
2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
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
5
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
6
Miami Association of Realtors Inc

The miami association of realtors (miami) was chartered by the national association of realtors in 1920 and is celebrating 105 years of service to realtors, the buying and selling public, and the communities in south florida. comprised of…

7
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
8
University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education
9
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
10
The New School

The new school's mission is to prepare our students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, and thus make the world a better and more just place. (continued on schedule o)

Education
11
Sociedad Interamericana De Prensa Inc

Between 2024 and 2025, the committee on freedom of the press and information, together with its subcommittees on impunity and chapultepecsalta, participated in approximately nine activities. these included a panel discussion entitled…

Education
12
Council of the Americas Inc

Council of the americas is a business organization whose members share a common commitment to economic and social development, open markets, the rule of law, and democracy throughout the americas. the council's membership consists of…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Miami Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Unreported Story Society. 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

8 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. 8 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of Miami — $1,000,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiBowdoin College — $200,000 · EducationBowdoin CollegeIndividual grant recipient — $208,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipien…FLORIDA ADVANCEMENT PROJECT INC — $100,000 · OtherFLORIDA ADVANCEMENT PROJE…JEWISH BUSINESS NETWORK — $36,000 · OtherJEWISH BUSINESS NETWORKMOUNT SINAI — $30,000 · OtherMOUNT SINAINICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION LLC — $20,000 · OtherTEMPLE BETH AM — $14,345 · Other+2 more — $2,800 · OtherGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $50,000 · Community ImprovementUnreported Story Society — $15,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $10,000 · Civil Rights
Education$1,200,000Other$411,145Philanthropy$125,000Community Improvement$50,000Arts & Culture$15,000Civil Rights$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Miami — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA ADVANCEMENT PROJECT INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $10,000 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Bittel Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — 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 5%
  • University of Miami5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report 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, 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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Bittel Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Bittel Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 15 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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