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George P Bishop Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$840k
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$1.3MHuman Services$835kHousing & Shelter$650kHealth$400kYouth Development$380kEducation$188kEmployment$105kReligion$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $505k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $325k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry$75,000
First Parish Church of Newbury Food$50,000
Lazarus House$50,000
St Vincent de Paul Newburyport$50,000
The Pettengill House$50,000
Soc of St Vincent de Paul Bassette$50,000
Community Service of Newburyport$40,000
St Vincent de Paul Divine Mercy Parish$30,000
Emmus Inc$30,000
Norish the North Shore$25,000
Link House$25,000
Ipswich Caring$25,000
Plummer Youth Promise$25,000
Beverly Bootstraps Community Servic$25,000
Pelican Intervention Fund$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Rogerson Communities: $10k → 16%Rogerson Communities: $10k → 16%Horizons for Homeless Children: $10k → 10%Household Goods: $15k → 8%Rogerson Communities: $10k → 16%Ipswich Caring: $25k → 16%Ipswich Caring: $20k → 16%Horizon for Homeless Children: $10k → 16%Horizons for Homeless Children: $10k → 16%Budget Buddies: $10k → 8%Project Just Becasue: $5k → 8%Community Service of Newburyport: $40k → 10%Community Service of Newburyport: $40k → 10%Community Service of Newburyport: $40k → 10%Community Service of Newburyport: $40k → 10%Community Service of Newburyport: $20k → 10%Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center: $15k → 10%Ipswich Caring: $25k → 10%Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center: $15k → 10%Ipswich Caring: $25k → 10%Our Neighbors Table: $100k → 10%Our Neighbors Table: $50k → 10%Our Neighbors Table: $50k → 10%The Pettengill House: $50k → 10%The Pettengill House: $50k → 10%Our Neighbors Table: $50k → 10%The Pettengill House: $50k → 10%Pettengill House: $50k → 10%Our Neighbors Table: $20k → 10%Community Giving Tree: $10k → 10%Community Giving tree: $10k → 10%Community Giving Tree: $10k → 10%Community Giving Tree: $10k → 10%Plummer Youth Promise: $25k → 10%Plummer Youth Promise: $25k → 10%Plummer Youth Promise: $25k → 10%Plummer Youth Promise: $20k → 10%Plummer Youth Promise: $15k → 10%Ipswich Caring: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 36 repeat orgs$678k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
24

Total granted

$3.2M
$463k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+37%

Still filing today

69%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • ON
    Our Neighbors' Table Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $270k · revenue +23%
  • TP
    The Pettengill House Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +33%
  • CS
    Community Service of Newburyport Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • SO
    Soc of Vincent de Paul Holy Family
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • SV
    Soc Vincent de Paul Sacred Heart
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • SP
    SARAHS PLACE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
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.

1
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
2
Leander House Inc

Assist people with disabilities

Health
3
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
4
House of Hope Housing Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
5
Goodwill Industries of the Berkshires and Southern Vermont Inc

The Organization's mission is to build pathways that help individuals pursue their goals through employment, career development, and community support programs.

—
6
Center for Living & Working Inc

We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.

Human Services
7
The Shared Living Collaborative Inc

To provide services and residential support to individuals with disabilities

Human Services
8
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
9
Triangle Inc

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.

—
10
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

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.

Housing & Shelter
11
Community Cooks Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
12
Lifestream Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bread & Roses Housing Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
31/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC: $300,000 · OtherTHE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INCThe Salvation Army: $160,000 · OtherThe Salvation ArmySoc of St Vincent de Paul Bassette: $100,000 · OtherFirst Parish Church of Newbury Food: $100,000 · OtherYWCA: $80,000 · OtherBoys and Girls Club: $80,000 · OtherSociety of St Vincent de Paul HF: $80,000 · OtherTALKING INFORMATION CENTER INC: $70,000 · Other+38 more: $1,023,000 · Other+38 moreOur Neighbors' Table Inc: $270,000 · Human ServicesOur Neighbors' Table IncThe Pettengill House Inc: $200,000 · Human ServicesThe Pettengill House IncCommunity Service of Newburyport Inc: $180,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Service of Newburypor…IPSWICH CARING INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesIPSWICH CARING INCPLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesPLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INCCOMMUNITY GIVING TREE INC: $40,000 · Human Services+7 more: $140,000 · Human Services+7 moreLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $250,000 · Housing & ShelterLAZARUS H…ESSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterESSEX COU…+1 more: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterLUCY'S LOVE BUS CHARITABLE TRUST INC: $75,000 · HealthTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $65,000 · HealthMAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10,000 · HealthMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $100,000 · Food & NutritionSOUTH PORTLAND FOOD CUPBOARD: $25,000 · Food & NutritionLAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentOpportunity Works Inc: $105,000 · Employment
Other$1,993,000Human Services$1,060,000Housing & Shelter$315,000Health$150,000Food & Nutrition$125,000Youth Development$120,000Employment$105,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC: $300,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetOur Neighbors' Table Inc: $270,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $250,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetThe Pettengill House Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCommunity Service of Newburyport Inc: $180,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetIPSWICH CARING INC: $120,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetPLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC: $110,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOpportunity Works Inc: $105,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLUCY'S LOVE BUS CHARITABLE TRUST INC: $75,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetTALKING INFORMATION CENTER INC: $70,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetESSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $60,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCHILDRENS CENTER FOR COMMUNICATION INC BEVERLY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY GIVING TREE INC: $40,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetBREAD & ROSES HOUSING INC: $35,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH PORTLAND FOOD CUPBOARD: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCare Dimensions Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCatie's Closet Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew England Homes for the Deaf Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSEHOLD GOODS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGENERAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY OF NEWBURYPORT: $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetOPERATION DELTA DOG INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCommunity Action Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOME AGAIN: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAP for Education Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS IN TECH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetANGELS NET FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetWOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetThe Notre Dame Education Center-Lawrence Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSOJOURNER HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetProject Just Because Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Cummings Foundation G…Institution for Savin…Eastern Bank Foundati…Rogers Family Foundat…Salem Five Charitable…Essex County Communit…Boston Foundation IncThe Horne Family Foun…Agnes M Lindsay TrustThe Saab Family Found…People's United Commu…Rockland Trust Charit…
Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA49.2× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 George P Bishop Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George P Bishop Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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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How do I get to George P Bishop Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to George P Bishop Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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