· Private foundation
Bishop Fund Fd No 2
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTL | $15,000 |
| BANG ON A CAN | $9,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $8,000 |
| COPPER CANYON PRESS | $6,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $4,000 |
| JACK STRAW CULTURAL CENTER | $3,000 |
| EARLY MUSIC GUILD | $2,000 |
| CENTRUM FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SPACE CITY | $2,000 |
| SEATTLE PEACE CHORUS | $2,000 |
| SEATTLE JAZZED | $2,000 |
| NORTHWEST FOLKLIFE | $2,000 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $1,500 |
| BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC | $1,500 |
| WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $1,200 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 53% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- ICINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +65%
- TTTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $49k · revenue +106%
- BOBANG ON A CAN5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- TWTHIRD WAYone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +17%
- NANorthwest Architectural Leagueone grant, 2021 · $10k
- AAALZHEIMER ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Seattle Chamber Music Festival fosters the appreciation of chamber music in our region by presenting performances featuring world-class musicians in accessible and inviting formats, with an emphasis on developing a broad-based sustainable…
Tacoma Art Museum transforms our communities by sharing art that inspires broader perspectives and cultivates a compassionate future
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.
To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.
Musical and other cultural performances and music education for youth
With a commitment to new and innovative storytelling, Ripple Productions seeks to push the boundaries of collaboration by integrating the performing, visual, and culinary arts.
Emerald City Music refreshes the chamber music experience by creating a platform of excellence where artists and audience transform one another. Our core pillars are: 1.Audience: We believe that everyone has the right and capacity to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Modern Art and the most unlike its peers is Port Townsend Meditation CENTERCamas Meditation Hall. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 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. 29 of the 43 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 INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BANG ON A CAN ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Claremont McKenna College ↗
- Who funds COPPER CANYON PRESS ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds The Early Music Guild of Seattle ↗
- Who funds THIRD WAY ↗
- Who funds Northwest Architectural League ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds Spectrum Dance Theater ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST FOLKLIFE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PEACE CHORUS ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds KUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds Velocity Dance Center ↗
- Who funds ON THE BOARDS ↗
- Who funds South Hudson Music Project ↗
- Who funds PORT TOWNSEND MEDITATION CENTERCamas Meditation Hall ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds New Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
- Who funds Seattle JazzED ↗
- Who funds CENTRUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BUSH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SO PERCUSSION INC ↗
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: Artsfund · Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Raynier Institute & Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Tides Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Fund Fd No 2 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.
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.