How much does Bishop Family Foundation give?

Bishop Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $125,686 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Bishop Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (48%), Arts & Culture (14%), Recreation & Sports (14%).

Who are Bishop Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Trustees of Princeton University ($219k), Wayland Academy ($133k), Northwestern University ($106k).

Does Bishop Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Bishop Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Bishop Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, The Tobey Foundation, AbbVie Foundation.

Where is Bishop Family Foundation based?

Bishop Family Foundation is based in IL.

Bishop Family Foundation

Bishop Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Bishop Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$126k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$27k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$458kArts & Culture$137kRecreation & Sports$137kHealth$92kHuman Services$52kInternational$18kEnvironment$15kReligion$15kOther$0

02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $29k
$10k–50k6 grants · $97k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY	$27,100
LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$20,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY	$15,086
STRATFORD FESTIVAL OF AMERICA	$12,500
WAYLAND ACADEMY	$12,500
SESAME WORKSHOP	$10,000
FAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE	$7,500
WRITERS THEATRE	$5,000
CHICAGO BOTANICAL GARDENS	$5,000
FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES	$2,500
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE	$2,500
WFMT	$2,500
GLENCOE UNION CHURCH	$2,500
NORTH CHANNEL COMMUNITY ROWING	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$916k · 22 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$916k

$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%

+18%

Still filing today

68%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationAnimalsHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

The Trustees of Princeton University
8× · 2017–2024 · $219k · revenue +5%
WA
WAYLAND ACADEMY
6× · 2017–2024 · $133k · revenue +38%
Northwestern University
6× · 2017–2024 · $106k · revenue +41%

Funded once

EI
Erikson Institutegraduated
one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +42%
NT
NEW TRIER TOWNSHIP ANGEL FUND INC
one grant, 2020 · $5k
CF
CENTER FOR CHILDHOOD RESILIENCE
one grant, 2018 · $4k

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.

04Its field

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.

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education

Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education

Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education

Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Foundation; the most unlike its peers is North Channel Community Rowing. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 42 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/28

Grantees still filing

20/28

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$393,901Other$306,010Recreation & Sports$136,767Human Services$48,395Arts & Culture$38,500International$16,500Housing & Shelter$10,000

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.

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL19.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · The Tobey Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home