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Bitton 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.

$184k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What it funds
0169% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$1.0MPhilanthropy$230kHuman Services$98kEducation$82kArts & Culture$51kHealth$33kHousing & Shelter$22kInternational$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $130k
$2,600
Median grant
5
States reached
$5k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIST OF CONTRIBUTIONS ATTACHED$129,688
Individual grant recipient$18,000
NEDIVIM FOUNDATION$8,400
Individual grant recipient$8,000
Individual grant recipient$4,444
R CHAIM KOLLELIM$3,000
TOAH IMAGES$2,600
Individual grant recipient$1,800
SHAREI CHINUCH DAY SCHOOL$1,800
EL AMI$1,800
CHICAGO CHESED FUND$1,000
CHABAD OF SOUTH BOWARD$1,000
HIDDEN GEMS$1,000
CONG BETH HILLEL$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE MAASER FUND CORP: $520 → 6%CHEVRA GEMACH: $260 → 6%MOSDOS NESIVAS SHALOM: $4k → 14%MOSDOS NESIVAS SHALOM: $2k → 14%CHAI 4EVER: $860 → 11%AHVAS TZEDOKOS: $793 → 11%MOSDOS NESIVAS SHALOM: $360 → 14%SOULUMADRAIGOS MIDWEST: $5k → 14%TIKVA LEDOROT: $720 → 20%LIBENU: $4k → 14%TIKVA LEDOROT: $300 → 20%LIBENU FOUNDATIONLEV RESPITE: $3k → 14%LIBENU FOUNDATIONLEV RESPITE: $1k → 14%LIBENU FOUNDATION: $260 → 14%CHICAGO CHESED FUND: $17k → 14%CHICAGO CHESED FUND: $8k → 14%CHICAGO CHESED FUND: $8k → 14%CHICAGO CHESED FUND: $3k → 14%CHICAGO CHESED FUND: $1k → 14%CHICAGO CHESED FUND: $1k → 14%JCC CHICAGO: $165 → 14%ISRAEL SELECT CHARITY FUND: $180 → 14%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

ME
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 193 repeat orgs$721k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

193 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 187 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

193
359

Total granted

$1.9M
$685k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+9%

Still filing today

20%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthOther
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

  • ZC
    ZOCHER CHASDAI OVOS
    3× · 2021–2023 · $108k · revenue +134% · 34% of their budget
  • CC
    CHICAGO CHESED FUND
    6× · 2019–2025 · $37k · revenue +83%
  • JO
    Just One Chesed Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $9k · revenue +487%

Funded once

  • DG
    DONATIONS GIVEN TO INDIVIDUALS UNDER 100000
    one grant, 2021 · $44k
  • AA
    ATERES AYALA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $36k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $18k
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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
3
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
4
Sherit Isroel
—
5
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
6
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
7
Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship
Religion
8
Friends of Yeshiva Tehilas Shlomo Inc

Provide support to further jewish education

Philanthropy
9
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
10
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Kollel Nefesh Hachaim Inc
Education
12
Yeshiva Beit Rafael

Religious & charitable- to provide funds to enable the study of torah.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Mosdot Goor; the most unlike its peers is Camp Extreme D/B/a Project Extreme. 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

98 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. 98 of the 562 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
95/98
Grantees still filing
63/98
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIST OF CONTRIBUTIONS ATTACHED: $383,769 · OtherLIST OF CONTRIBUTIONS ATTACHEDDONATIONS GIVEN TO INDIVIDUALS UNDE: $153,236 · OtherDONATIONS GIVEN TO INDIVIDUALS UNDEOHEL SHALOM TORAH CENTER: $112,715 · OtherOHEL SHALOM TORAH CENTERNEDIVIM FOUNDATION: $86,400 · Other+169 more: $1,327,708 · Other+169 moreZOCHER CHASDAI OVOS: $107,536 · ReligionAGUDATH ISRAEL OF ILLINOIS: $28,067 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DARCHE NOAM: $15,000 · ReligionMaccabim Hebrew School: $11,250 · Religion+7 more: $25,263 · ReligionCHICAGO CHESED FUND: $37,315 · Human ServicesLIBENU: $8,183 · Human ServicesMOSDOS NESIVAS SHALOM INC: $6,120 · Human ServicesSOULU: $5,000 · Human ServicesJust One Chesed Inc: $9,240 · PhilanthropyDONORS FUND INC: $6,010 · PhilanthropyHEBRON FUND INC: $4,670 · PhilanthropyCentral Fund of Israel: $16,216 · InternationalYESHIVAS KESSER YONAH: $6,521 · EducationTORAH ORE SEMINARY: $3,600 · EducationMISSOURI TORAH INSTITUTE: $2,081 · EducationYESHIVA GEDOLA OF THE MIDWEST: $2,000 · EducationHATZALAH CHICAGO: $6,740 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $3,600 · HealthCAMP MOSHAVA OF WILD ROSE INC: $5,660 · Recreation & SportsCAMP NAGEELA MIDWEST INC: $3,650 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,063,828Religion$187,116Human Services$56,618Philanthropy$19,920International$16,216Education$14,202Health$10,340Recreation & Sports$9,310

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetZOCHER CHASDAI OVOS: $107,536 over 3y, 34% of budgetCHICAGO CHESED FUND: $37,315 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF ILLINOIS: $28,067 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $16,216 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DARCHE NOAM: $15,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetMaccabim Hebrew School: $11,250 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetJust One Chesed Inc: $9,240 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLIBENU: $8,183 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHATZALAH CHICAGO: $6,740 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYESHIVAS KESSER YONAH: $6,521 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HINDA INSTITUTE: $6,200 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMOSDOS NESIVAS SHALOM INC: $6,120 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDONORS FUND INC: $6,010 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP MOSHAVA OF WILD ROSE INC: $5,660 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOULU: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MERCAZ HATORAH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTorah Images Inc: $4,900 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetHEBRON FUND INC: $4,670 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJET - JEWISH EDUCATION TEAM INC: $3,970 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP NAGEELA MIDWEST INC: $3,650 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTORAH ORE SEMINARY: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO MEZUZAH AND MITZVAH CAMPAIGN: $3,340 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKEREN HASHVIIS INC: $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMY MORASHA INC: $2,300 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPLAYTHINKS: $2,180 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMISSOURI TORAH INSTITUTE: $2,081 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA GEDOLA OF THE MIDWEST: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKOLLEL TORAH TEMIMAH INC: $1,953 over 3y, 0.7% 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 ZOCHER CHASDAI OVOS ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO CHESED FUND ↗
  • Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DARCHE NOAM ↗

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.

Aj & Sl Stern Family FoundationIL89× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aj & Sl Stern Family Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Ojc Fund · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · The Jmg Foundation · The Dennis Berman Family Foundation Inc · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Ahavas Avraham Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund

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 Bitton Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bitton Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Yeshivas Ohr Hatorah Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Mesivta Keren Orah: 10% of income from government
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Chai 4EVER Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 562 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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