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Robert and Perri Bishop Foundationinc Fka Swordspoint Foundation Inc at a glance

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Robert and Perri Bishop Foundationinc Fka Swordspoint Foundation Inc

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.

$848k
Granted FY2023
19
Grants FY2023
8
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

72% of Robert and Perri Bishop Foundationinc Fka Swordspoint Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to University Of Southern California, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Robert and Perri Bishop Foundationinc Fka Swordspoint Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $848k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’17
10
’19
18
’21
12
’22
13
’23
15
’24
6
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$4.9MAnimals$1.1MArts & Culture$968kInternational$803kHealth$708kRecreation & Sports$658kYouth Development$305kPublic Safety & Disaster$266kOther$0
02FY2023 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $214k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $629k
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MCPHERSON COLLEGE$200,000
OXBRIDGE ACADEMY$129,000
PEBBLE BEACH COMPANY FOUNDATION$100,000
PALM BEACH POLICE & FIRE FOUNDATION$80,000
BALDWIN WALLACE UNIVERSITY$70,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$50,000
SAINT EDWARD CHURCH$35,000
PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY$34,220
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
BEREA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$24,000
BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE$21,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$15,000
HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION$15,000
ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS$10,000
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 (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 11%SPEAK UP FOR KIDS OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $1k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
KY
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 29% of Robert and Perri Bishop Foundationinc Fka Swordspoint Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Robert and Perri Bishop Foundationinc Fka Swordspoint Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 27 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2023, 14 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
44

Total granted

$4.7M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+19%

Still filing today

70%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • O
    OhioGuidestone
    3× · 2017–2021 · $450k · revenue +62%
  • BD
    BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $309k · revenue +229%
  • PB
    Pebble Beach Company Foundation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • Northwestern Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $653k · revenue +41%
  • SL
    ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +15%
  • W
    WHOI
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
University of New Haven

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…

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
Point Park University

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…

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8
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

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9
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
10
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Canaan Country School Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Grand Teton National Park Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 88 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
39/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $2,905,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIATHE NIGERIAN SCHOOL PROJECT: $495,000 · EducationTHE NIGERIAN SCHOOL PROJECTMCPHERSON COLLEGE: $400,000 · EducationMCPHERSON COLLEGEBaldwin Wallace University: $245,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $225,000 · Education+10 more: $412,720 · Education+10 morePATRONS OF THE ARTS IN THE VATICAN MUSEUM: $490,000 · OtherPATRONS OF THE ARTS IN THE V…AFRICAN WILDLIFE PRESERVATION TRUST: $445,000 · OtherAFRICAN WILDLIFE PRESERVATIO…HOUSE OF VICTORY FOUNDATION: $300,000 · OtherHOUSE OF VICTORY FOUNDATIONUSC COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS AND SCIENCES: $150,000 · OtherUSC COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS …OXBRIDGE ACADEMY: $129,000 · OtherThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $266,000 · OtherThe Palm Beach Police and Fi…THE NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $220,000 · OtherTHE NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL SO…+43 more: $520,410 · Other+43 moreNorthwestern University: $652,500 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsOhioGuidestone: $450,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $91,000 · HealthHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $70,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $25,000 · Health+2 more: $15,000 · HealthBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC: $309,000 · AnimalsVanderpump Dog Foundation: $258,500 · AnimalsWILDLIFE IN CRISIS INC: $37,500 · Animals+5 more: $29,840 · AnimalsUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $402,514 · InternationalTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF POLICY EXCH: $100,000 · InternationalPebble Beach Company Foundation: $300,000 · PhilanthropyTHE HOMETOWN FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $10,500 · Philanthropy
Education$4,682,720Other$2,520,410Recreation & Sports$660,000Health$651,000Animals$634,840International$502,514Philanthropy$410,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $2,905,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $652,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NIGERIAN SCHOOL PROJECT: $495,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetOhioGuidestone: $450,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $402,514 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMCPHERSON COLLEGE: $400,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC: $309,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPebble Beach Company Foundation: $300,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $266,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetVanderpump Dog Foundation: $258,500 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetBaldwin Wallace University: $245,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $225,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $220,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetPALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC: $109,220 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF POLICY EXCH: $100,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetTHE HOMETOWN FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $91,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetST LUKE'S FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTETON LITERACY CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budget1065 INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $46,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE IN CRISIS INC: $37,500 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPIGLET INTERNATIONAL INC: $35,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetLUND UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHEATRE ASPEN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PISTON FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetSPCA OF WESTCHESTER INC: $10,340 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOCA CT INC: $9,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCITY CRITTERS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHACKLEY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOUND RIDGE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN SECTION PGA FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Acadia: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSEAL HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSTREETSQUASH INC: $2,500 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.

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.

The New York Communit…Ibm International Fou…Huckleberry Foundatio…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Community Foundation …The Bessemer Giving F…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Ayco Charitable F…The Chicago Community…
The New York Community TrustNY17.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Ibm International Foundation · Huckleberry Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Bessemer Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust

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 Robert and Perri Bishop Foundationinc Fka Swordspoint Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert and Perri Bishop Foundationinc Fka Swordspoint Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Horizons Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Westport Historical Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
  • St Luke's Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Palm Beach Day Academy Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

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Find your warmest path to Robert and Perri Bishop Foundationinc Fka Swordspoint 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 88 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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