· Private foundation
George P Bishop Foundation Inc
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 $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $505k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry | $75,000 |
| First Parish Church of Newbury Food | $50,000 |
| Soc of St Vincent de Paul Bassette | $50,000 |
| The Pettengill House | $50,000 |
| St Vincent de Paul Newburyport | $50,000 |
| Lazarus House | $50,000 |
| Community Service of Newburyport | $40,000 |
| St Vincent de Paul Divine Mercy Parish | $30,000 |
| Emmus Inc | $30,000 |
| Link House | $25,000 |
| Beverly Bootstraps Community Servic | $25,000 |
| Norish the North Shore | $25,000 |
| Ipswich Caring | $25,000 |
| Plummer Youth Promise | $25,000 |
| Our Neighbors Table | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
36 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 10 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k 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
- ONOur Neighbors' Table Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $270k · revenue +25%
- TPThe Pettengill House Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +33%
- CSCommunity Service of Newburyport Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- SOSoc of Vincent de Paul Holy Familyone grant, 2022 · $50k
- SVSoc Vincent de Paul Sacred Heartone grant, 2022 · $30k
- SPSARAHS PLACE INCone grant, 2023 · $30k
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.
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
Assist people with disabilities
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
To promote improved social and economic conditions of families who are or who have recently been homeless; to promote, develop, and manage affordable housing for families and to assist in carrying out the charitable purposes of house of…
The Organization's mission is to build pathways that help individuals pursue their goals through employment, career development, and community support programs.
We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.
To provide services and residential support to individuals with disabilities
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bread & Roses Housing Inc and the most unlike its peers is General Charitable Society of Newburyport. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 70 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 OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Our Neighbors' Table Inc ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The Pettengill House Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Service of Newburyport Inc ↗
- Who funds IPSWICH CARING INC ↗
- Who funds PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds Opportunity Works Inc ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds LUCY'S LOVE BUS CHARITABLE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds TALKING INFORMATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CENTER FOR COMMUNICATION INC BEVERLY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY GIVING TREE INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD & ROSES HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds ROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PORTLAND FOOD CUPBOARD ↗
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: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Rogers Family Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Horne Family Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · The Saab Family Foundation · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable 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 George P Bishop Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Opportunity Works Inc — 77% of income from government
- Talking Information Center Inc — 71% of income from government
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- Worcester Youth Center Inc — 64% of income from government
- Plummer Youth Promise Inc — 64% of income from government
- Community Action Inc — 52% of income from government
- Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- New England Homes for the Deaf Inc — 36% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Kids in Tech Inc — 15% of income from government
- Care Dimensions Inc — 14% of income from government
- Sojourner House Inc — 11% of income from government
- Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
- Lawrence Communityworks Inc — 9% of income from government
- Our Neighbors' Table Inc — 8% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Rogerson Communities Inc — 6% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- Women's Money Matters Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Project Just Because Inc — 0% of income from government
- Childrens Center for Communication Inc Beverly School for the Deaf — 0% 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.
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