Oregon · Nonprofit
B-Word Worldwide Inc Bitch Media
B-Word Worldwide Inc Bitch Media (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,238 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($52,700). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2020
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $225k
- Net assets
- $78k
What B-Word Worldwide Inc Bitch Media does
Mission
To provide and encourage an engaged, thoughtful feminist response to mainstream and popular culture.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
Bitch Media effects positive change in portrayals of women and feminism in themedia. This is achieved through education and encouragement of critical thinking about messages put forth by commercial culture (movies, t.v., magazines, advertising, etc.). The vehicle for this education is a publication entitled "Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture," www.bitchmedia.org, Bitch Medias Popaganda and Backtalk Podcasts, the Bitch on Campus program that provides curriculum and speakers for colleges across North America, and finally the Bitch Media Fellowships for writers, a series of three month intensive writing fellowships whose goal is to develop, support and amplify emerging, diverse voices in feminist, activist, and pop culture media. These vehicles provide a range of voices that analyze the negative images of women and gender roles that are commonly propagated by the media and culture and also spotlight healthy alternatives. No attempt is made to present one unified position, but rather seek to help people think about the messages they are receiving and what may be wrong with them.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $180k to $177k (−2%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $53k → $18k.
8 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of B-Word Worldwide Inc Bitch Media’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
B-Word Worldwide Inc Bitch Media has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
88% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund B-Word Worldwide Inc Bitch Media.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 60% · 2019 63% · 2020 35% · 2021 73% · 2022 72% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
38% of B-Word Worldwide Inc Bitch Media's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2022, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
86% of B-Word Worldwide Inc Bitch Media's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $32k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $193k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like B-Word Worldwide Inc Bitch Media
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for B-Word Worldwide Inc Bitch Media: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds B-Word Worldwide Inc Bitch Media?
- B-Word Worldwide Inc Bitch Media (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,238 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($52,700). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does B-Word Worldwide Inc Bitch Media have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $225,238 in grants to B-Word Worldwide Inc Bitch Media, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of B-Word Worldwide Inc Bitch Media?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $52,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like B-Word Worldwide Inc Bitch Media find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 14 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing