· Private foundation
Bissell 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 $10k13 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KALMAZOO COLLEGE | $50,200 |
| LANTERN THEATER COMPANY | $25,000 |
| INHERITANCE OF HOPE | $6,500 |
| WHYY | $5,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA ZOO | $3,500 |
| THE BARNES FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| MARIETTA COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| CAPE REGIONAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENN | $2,500 |
| ISLAND ACAD INTL SCH | $2,000 |
| EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| THE BEE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART | $1,000 |
| STONE HARBOR RESCUE SQUAD | $100 |
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 (FY23–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +24% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KCKALAMAZOO COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $377k · revenue +41%
- LTLANTERN THEATER COMPANY5× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +10%
WHYY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- NPNATIONAL PROPANE GAS FDN SCHOLARone grant, 2024 · $45k
- NPNational Propane Gas Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +33%
- HCHEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +13%
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
The rosenbach museum & library is a community that engages with and celebrates the art of the written word using our collection of rare books and manuscripts.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)
To discover philadelphia's river of history and world of connections. serving a wide and diverse audience and holding its collections in trust for the community, the museum tells the stories of the people, historical events and…
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…
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 70 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 KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LANTERN THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds Marietta College ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds National Propane Gas Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BEE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Prison Dharma Network Inc ↗
- Who funds TINY DYNAMITE INC ↗
- Who funds INHERITANCE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds EAST LYNNE THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE WINDSOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WINDSOR CONN INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds THE HARBAUGH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AVALON RESCUE SQUAD 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: Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Lillian Lincoln Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bissell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bissell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- East Lynne Theater Company: 12% of income from government
- The American Visionary Art Museum Inc: 6% of income from government
- Health Care for the Homeless Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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