Bitar Foundation Inc
New York, NY · EIN 26-3263340. Reported 67 grants totalling $571,500 to 41 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Bitar Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $14,000; the smallest was $410 and the largest $31,325. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social & Economic Action for Lebanon Inc | New York, NY | $95,060 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Lycee Francais De New York | New York, NY | $82,900 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Search and Care Inc | New York, NY | $45,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York | New York, NY | $41,980 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Action Against Hunger | New York, NY | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Worldwide Orphans | South Orange, NJ | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rise Alliance for Childrenwwof | New York, NY | $24,600 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Worldwide Orphans Foundation | New York, NY | $21,900 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Convent of the Sacred Heart | New York, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Steep Rock Association Inc | Washington, CT | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Rise Alliance for Children | New York, NY | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Worldwide Orphans | New York, NY | $15,100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Social & Economic Action for Lebanonic | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Right to Play | New York, NY | $14,300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gunn Memorial Library Inc | Washington, CT | $11,850 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| American University of Beirut | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Saint Joseph University | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Life Generation USA Inc | New York, NY | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cancer Research & Treatment Fund Lnc | New York, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Washington Ambulance Association Inc | Washington, CT | $6,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Every Mother Counts | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Steep Rock Association Inc | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jamhour Alumni US Incorporated | Holmdel, NJ | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Sherkow Center | New York, NY | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Gunn Memorial Library Inc | Washington, DC | $3,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Farmers Table | Cornwall Bridge, CT | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Irish Arts Center | New York, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Dance Institute | New York, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Teach for Lebanon | New York, NY | $2,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Farmon Foundation | Copake, NY | $2,300 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lake Waramaug Friends Inc | New Preston Marble Dal, CT | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Earth Ranger | New York, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Washington Ambulance Association Inc | Washington, DC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tfl-US Incorporated | New York, NY | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Friends of Sesobel Inc | Fairhope, AL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bantam Cinema & Arts Center | Litchfield, CT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Lebanese Franciscan Sisters of the Cross | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Givengain Foundation USA | Boston, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Alliance on Mental Illness Miami-Dade County Inc | Miami, FL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Washington Fire Dept | Zanesville, OH | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| World Wildlife Fund | Washington, DC | $410 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
12 of 41 (29%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 39%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 39 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 12 | $99,710 | $3,750 |
| 2022 | 8 | $98,225 | $7,500 |
| 2023 | 12 | $127,310 | $9,000 |
| 2024 | 16 | $98,975 | $3,050 |
| 2025 | 19 | $147,280 | $5,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
84% of its giving went to organizations in New York. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Bitar Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 135 East 91ST Street, New York, NY, 10128. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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