· Private foundation
Bisco Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| DA-IL COMMUNITY OF USA | $20,000 |
| SEVERANCE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| FIRST KOREAN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| COMPREHENSIVE KOREAN SELF HELP COMMUNITY CENTER | $12,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF CHICAGOLAND KOREAN-NORTHBROOK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $10,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST COMMITTEE ON RELIEF | $10,000 |
| LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| SEJONG CULTURAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of Bisco Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against -21% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 Associated Colleges of Illinois Inc ↗
- Who funds SEVERANCE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 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 WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bisco Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bisco Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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