· Private foundation
Bishop Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GIDEONS INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| ODESSA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| ST JOHNS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF ODESSA INC | $6,000 |
| SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| BYNUM SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MIDLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF ODESSA INC | $5,000 |
| WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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
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 +91% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FLFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE3× · 2017–2019 · $53k · revenue +98%
- BSBYNUM SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +222%
- WTWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- ACANTIOCH CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $6k
- TRTHE ROCK ODESSA CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $6k
- EIEDM INCone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Christian pre-school from age 3-months to school-age, and school from
The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.
Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.
Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…
The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.
Tcs is an independent christian school that prepares young men and women for college and life by providing challenging opportunities to excel in the vital areas of faith, virtue and knowledge.
education
Truth academy works in partnership with families to integrate high-quality education with biblical truth and discipleship in order to train students, spiritually and academically, how to operate in their god-given purpose and live out a…
Partnering with parents in providing an excellent classical education founded upon a biblical worldview.
The Cambridge School of Dallas was formed in 2001 and is a college preparatory, non-denominational christian school established for the purpose of providing academic excellence in a christ-centered environment.
To provide students and families with access to an excellent, classical christian eduication that prepares them to live purposefully in service of god and man.
To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 26 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 FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BYNUM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds St John's Episcopal School of Odessa Inc ↗
- Who funds ODESSA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF ODESSA INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Scott & White Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Fields Edge ↗
- Who funds JESUS HOUSE ODESSA INC ↗
- Who funds Dr James Dobson Family Institute ↗
- Who funds SANDHILLS HEREFORD & QUARTERHORSE SHOW INC ↗
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: Permian Basin Area Foundation · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bishop Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bishop Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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