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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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $128k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEATTLE AQUARIUM | $78,334 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF WASHINGTON | $50,000 |
| SEATTLE TIMES FUND FOR THOSE IN NEED | $25,000 |
| REEF | $25,000 |
| QUEEN ANNE FOOD BANK | $10,010 |
| LOPEZ ISLAND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| YWCA PHILIS WHEATLEY BRANCH | $10,000 |
| THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MOUNT HOPE CEMETARY | $5,000 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND QUILT MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| CROHN'S AND COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| EASTSIDE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- TSTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY7× · 2019–2025 · $608k · revenue +70%
- LILOPEZ ISLAND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER7× · 2018–2025 · $58k · revenue +170%
- CCCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- HLHousing Lopezgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +651%
- AQAMERICAN QUILT STUDY GROUPone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -14%
- TSTHE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +60%
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.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Bainbridge island museum of art (bima) inspires curiosity, wonder and understanding by connecting people with the contemporary art and craft of the puget sound region.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The seattle public library foundation inspires the community's philanthropic support, advocacy for, and pride in the library.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The mission of the chesapeake bay maritime museum cbmm is to preserve and explore the history, environment, and people of the chesapeake bay. the vision of the chesapeake bay maritime museum is to be the premier see sched o
The Friends of the Seattle Public Library's mission is to elevate the Library and inspire the love of reading in our communities.
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.
Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Quilt Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Housing Lopez. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 19 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 THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LOPEZ ISLAND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Housing Lopez ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND QUILT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN QUILT STUDY GROUP ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN QUILT MUSEUM ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Bishop Family 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.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- New England Quilt Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
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.