· Private foundation
Bisco Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $167k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TSURUMI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENISTRY | $250,000 |
| KOREAN CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO | $200,000 |
| KOREAN-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO | $25,000 |
| SEVERANCE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| FIRST KOREAN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| DA-IL COMMUNITY OF USA | $20,000 |
| COMPREHENSIVE KOREAN SELF HELP COMMUNITY CENTER | $12,000 |
| LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF CHICAGOLAND KOREAN-NORTHBROOK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| SEJONG CULTURAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST COMMITTEE ON RELIEF | $10,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $308k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Bisco Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +35% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $283k 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
- KCKOREAN CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +306% · 38% of their budget
- KAKOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO4× · 2020–2024 · $185k · revenue +3% · 26% of their budget
- DCDUREH COMMUNITY CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $96k · revenue +219% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
- IFINTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR SKK UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2017 · $110k · revenue -38% · 46% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOR PEDIATRIC DENTISTRYone grant, 2018 · $100k
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -21%
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.
Comparative studies and research concerning the political, economic, social, and cultural barriers and ties among the usa,south korea and north korea.
To promote and strengthen our diverse community by educating present and future generations in the evolving korean-american experience in hawaii.
To provide educational and charitable support to community and korea university
Kacf provides grants and capacity building assistance to organizations working to address the most pressing needs in the korean american community and beyond. to the supporters, kacf provides a way to magnify the impact of their giving and…
The korean american community foundation of san francisco uplifts and connects the korean-american community through philanthropy.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
To expand cultural exchange through exhibitions, performances, fashion shows,culinary events, distribution of publications, and other artistic endeavors between korea and the united states
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Korean Cultural Center of Chicago and the most unlike its peers is International Foundation for Skk University Inc. 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 48 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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 49 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 KOREAN CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DAIL COMMUNITY OF USA INC ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR SKK UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds DUREH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF CHICAGOLAND KOREAN-NORTHBROOK CHARITABLE PROJECTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SEJONG CULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEVERANCE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Associated Colleges of Illinois Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Eugene Bell Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HANUL FAMILY ALLIANCE F/K/A THE KOREAN-AMERICAN SR CTR ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER OF CONCERN ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
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 Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Bisco Charitable 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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