Illinois · Private foundation
Bisco Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $658k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Bisco Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 26 | $648k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $352k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $385k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $392k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $337k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $335k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $304k | 22% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $191k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Korean Cultural Center of Chicago | $1,221,000 | 8 | 38% |
| Dail Community of USA Inc | $200,000 | 7 | 19% |
| Korean American Association of Chicago | $185,000 | 4 | 26% |
| International Foundation for Skk University Inc | $110,000 | 1 | 46% |
| Dureh Community Center | $96,000 | 8 | 26% |
| Rotary Club of Chicagoland Korean-Northbrook Charitable Projects Foundation | $88,000 | 8 | 66% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $65,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Sejong Cultural Society | $40,000 | 4 | 17% |
| Lyric Opera of Chicago | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($630k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bisco Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Bisco Charitable Foundation
- How much does Bisco Charitable Foundation give?
- Bisco Charitable Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $658,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Bisco Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (41%), Education (22%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Bisco Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Korean Cultural Center of Chicago ($1.2M), Dail Community of USA Inc ($200k), Korean American Association of Chicago ($185k).
- Does Bisco Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bisco Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bisco Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
- Where is Bisco Charitable Foundation based?
- Bisco Charitable Foundation is based in IL.
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