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The Bisconti Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$901k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$154k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$6.7MYouth Development$867kHealth$533kRecreation & Sports$492kCommunity Improvement$210kScience & Tech$200kCivil Rights$125kHousing & Shelter$108kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $101k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $794k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARTIS CAMP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$154,100
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PENINSULA$100,000
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY$100,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$100,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC$90,000
COLLEGE TRACK$50,000
USA WATER POLO INC$50,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$50,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$50,000
AMBITION ANGELS$50,000
NEW STORY INC$30,000
THE FIT KIDS FOUNDATION INC$25,000
EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC$21,000
CONEY ISLAND PREP BUILDERS INC$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $474k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $500 → 11%NEW STORY INC: $30k → 13%REALIZE IMPACT: $150k → 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $500 → 11%MATRICULATE INC: $50k → 17%NEW STORY INC: $30k → 13%REALIZE IMPACT: $50k → 10%MATRICULATE INC: $15k → 17%NEW STORY INC: $30k → 13%NEW STORY INC: $18k → 13%MATRICULATE INC: $50k → 20%MATRICULATE INC: $50k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MN
NY
MA
CA
CO
MD
DC
GA
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 23% of The Bisconti Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Bisconti Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.0M · 20 repeat orgs$401k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +90% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
16

Total granted

$7.0M
$346k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%
+24%

Still filing today

90%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther

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

  • EC
    EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +205%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +189%
  • MS
    MENLO SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2021 · $871k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • FM
    FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +22%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -18%
  • AA
    ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO
    one grant, 2022 · $27k · revenue -21%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

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
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
4
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
5
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
6
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
7
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
8
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
9
San Francisco University High School

At san franicisco university high school, we engage our community of diverse voices in a transformational experience that embraces the spirited pursuit of learning and empowers purpose larger than self.

Education
10
The College Preparatory School

At college prep we believe in the foundational importance of scholarship, the value of dialogue, and the need for academically curious young people to belong to a kind, creative, diverse and joyful community. we challenge our students to…

Education
11
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Basic Fund and the most unlike its peers is Earthjustice. 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 29 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr18%30%20–35yr12%9%35–55yr11%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr18%35%20–35yr12%2%35–55yr11%49%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/37
the rest of the field
14%
19,919/145,234

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.

05the grantee network

37 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. 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
29/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $1,231,000 · EducationEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INCPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,128,500 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $1,021,928 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATIONPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $446,250 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGEUCLA FOUNDATION — $300,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $242,500 · EducationTHE BASIC FUND — $180,000 · EducationCOLLEGE TRACK — $175,000 · Education+9 more — $321,500 · Education+9 moreMENLO SCHOOL — $870,780 · OtherMENLO SCHOOLHARVARD COLLEGE — $475,000 · OtherHARVARD COLLEGEPRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE - HARVARD — $360,000 · OtherPRESIDENT AND FELLOWS O…FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION — $125,000 · OtherFEMINIST MAJORITY FOUND…+10 more — $139,250 · Other+10 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA — $704,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…THE FIT KIDS FOUNDATION INC — $112,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE FIT K…PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC — $475,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $50,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthRealize Impact — $200,000 · Human ServicesMATRICULATE INC — $165,000 · Human ServicesNEW STORY INC — $108,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesUSA WATER POLO INC — $225,000 · Recreation & SportsEAST PALO ALTO TENNIS & TUTORING — $40,000 · Recreation & SportsMARTIS CAMP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA MARTIS CAMP FOUNDATION — $254,500 · Community Improvement
Education$5,046,678Other$1,970,030Youth Development$816,000Health$526,000Human Services$474,000Recreation & Sports$265,000Community Improvement$254,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $1,231,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,128,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $1,021,928 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMENLO SCHOOL — $870,780 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA — $704,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC — $475,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $446,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARTIS CAMP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA MARTIS CAMP FOUNDATION — $254,500 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $242,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUSA WATER POLO INC — $225,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetRealize Impact — $200,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetTHE BASIC FUND — $180,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK — $175,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMATRICULATE INC — $165,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetFEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUASPIRE INC — $120,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FIT KIDS FOUNDATION INC — $112,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetNEW STORY INC — $108,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCONEY ISLAND PREP BUILDERS INC — $80,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMBITION ANGELS — $50,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetEAST PALO ALTO TENNIS & TUTORING — $40,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $26,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREACH UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILLBROOK SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPENINSULA BRIDGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetSTRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GIRLS' MIDDLE SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Michael and Paula…Marin Community Found…National Philanthropi…Tomlinson Family Foun…The San Francisco Fou…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA22.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Michael and Paula Rantz Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Tomlinson Family Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 The Bisconti Family Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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