· Private foundation
Frank and Margaret Bitar Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Frank and Margaret Bitar Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to The Oregon Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Frank and Margaret Bitar Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 24 organizations, $77k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k38 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL EAST ROTARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| OMMP | $5,000 |
| DRESS FOR SUCCESS | $5,000 |
| PROVIDENCE CHILD CENTER FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| DE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| EDWARDS CENTER INC | $2,500 |
| ROSEMARY ANDERSON HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OREGON | $2,000 |
| PARKINSON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SERENDIPITY | $2,000 |
| PROJECT MEXICO & ST INNOCENT ORPHANAGE | $2,000 |
| CAPPELLA ROMANA | $1,500 |
| AGIA SOPHIA SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS-OREGON | $1,500 |
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 (FY18–20, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against -26% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ECEDWARDS CENTER INC3× · 2018–2020 · $28k · revenue +21%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC3× · 2018–2020 · $8k · revenue +125%- PMPROJECT MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH3× · 2018–2020 · $6k · revenue +71%
Funded once
THE BOYS & GIRLS AID SOCIETY OF OREGONone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -26%- VIVOICES IN CARE OF CAROL STADYone grant, 2018 · $1k
- AIASHA - INCone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -98%
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.
The mission of oak hill school is to provide the best pre-kindergarten through 8th grade education, creating caring and responsible critical thinkers.
Oregon research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…
At l'arche portland people with and without developmental disabilities create home and build community together. we nurture long-term mutual relationships that reveal the gifts of people with developmental disabilities. in doing so we…
Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center (LGSHMC), founded in 1875 is one of the earliest hospitals in the Pacific Northwest. LGSHMC provides acute and tertiary care in Portland, OR with 539 licensed beds. LGSHMC provides a…
The mission of the oma is to speak as the unified voice of medicine in oregon; advocate for a sustainable, equitable, and accessible healthcare environment; and energize physicians and physician assistants by building and supporting their…
Our children oregon's mission is to be a voice and force for the common good for all oregon children, ensuring all children have the resources and opportunities they need to reach their full potential. we elevate data and the voices of…
Doernbecher children's hospital foundation is a nonprofit organization established in 1924 that exists to secure private philanthropic support for doernbecher children's hospital.
The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.
Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center (LMHMC) was founded in 1922 and is a community hospital in Gresham, Oregon with 115 licensed beds. LMHMC offers a wide range of services including family birth, diagnostic services, cancer treatment,…
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.
Leading the transformation of primary care to achieve health equity for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oregon and the most unlike its peers is Voices Unlimited. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 48 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 THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDWARDS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Dress for Success Oregon ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Oregon Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPPELLA ROMANA ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Halprin Landscape Conservancy ↗
- Who funds American-Hellenic Educational Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of Sabeel-North America ↗
- Who funds BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOUGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Cancer Association ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLHOUSE SUPPLIES INC ↗
- Who funds LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Victory Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS AID SOCIETY OF OREGON ↗
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 Oregon Community Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · Juan Young Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · The Jackson Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Wentworth Foundation · Wheeler 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 Frank and Margaret Bitar 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Edwards Center Inc — 79% of income from government
- Cappella Romana — 4% of income from government
- The Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon — 3% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- The Dougy Center Inc — 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.