How much does Frank and Margaret Bitar Foundation give?

Frank and Margaret Bitar Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $76,500 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2020.

What does Frank and Margaret Bitar Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (90%), Health (3%), Education (1%).

Who are Frank and Margaret Bitar Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2022: Edwards Center Inc ($28k), Dress for Success Oregon ($15k), Providence Children's Health Foundation ($11k).

Does Frank and Margaret Bitar Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2020, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Frank and Margaret Bitar Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Frank and Margaret Bitar Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation, The Reser Family Foundation.

Where is Frank and Margaret Bitar Foundation based?

Frank and Margaret Bitar Foundation is based in OR.

Frank and Margaret Bitar Foundation

Frank and Margaret Bitar Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$77k

Granted FY2020

Grants FY2020

States reached

$10k

Largest

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

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.

Philanthropy$2.3MHealth$82kEducation$33kCommunity Improvement$30kPublic Benefit$20kHuman Services$19kEmployment$15kInternational$12kOther$0

02FY2020 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

Under $10k38 grants · $67k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

$2.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
ROSEMARY ANDERSON HIGH SCHOOL	$2,500
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL	$2,500
EDWARDS CENTER INC	$2,500
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OREGON	$2,000
PARKINSON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION	$2,000
PROJECT MEXICO & ST INNOCENT ORPHANAGE	$2,000
SERENDIPITY	$2,000
CAPPELLA ROMANA	$1,500
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION	$1,500
OHSU KNIGHT CANCER INSTITUTE	$1,500

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 (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 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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$252k · 40 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against -13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$252k

$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

-13%

Still filing today

53%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationInternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentEmploymentOther

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

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EDWARDS CENTER INC
3× · 2018–2020 · $28k · revenue +21%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
3× · 2018–2020 · $8k · revenue +125%
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PROJECT MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
3× · 2018–2020 · $6k · revenue +71%

Funded once

THE BOYS & GIRLS AID SOCIETY OF OREGON
one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -31%
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VOICES IN CARE OF CAROL STADY
one grant, 2018 · $1k
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ASHA - INC
one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -98%

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.

Oak Hill School

The mission of oak hill school is to provide the best pre-kindergarten through 8th grade education, creating caring and responsible critical thinkers.

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Oregon Research Institute

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…

Social Science

LArche Portland

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…

Human Services

Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center

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…

Health

Oregon Medical Association

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…

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Our Children Oregon

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…

Philanthropy

Doernbecher Children's Hospital Foundation

Doernbecher children's hospital foundation is a nonprofit organization established in 1924 that exists to secure private philanthropic support for doernbecher children's hospital.

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Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc

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.

Arts & Culture

Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center

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,…

Health

Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association

Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.

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Cascades Academy of Central Oregon

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.

Education

Oregon Primary Care Association

Leading the transformation of primary care to achieve health equity for all.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oregon; 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.

04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)

26/27

Grantees still filing

18/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$2,340,876Other$170,796Employment$27,500Health$22,500Human Services$17,000International$11,000Education$10,500

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 Oregon Community FoundationOR31.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Frank and Margaret Bitar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank and Margaret Bitar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home