Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Bishop Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $524k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Bishop Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $524k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $490k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $397k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $430k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $592k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $454k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $458k | 6% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $368k | 6% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lebanon Valley College | $1,250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lebanon Community Library | $405,000 | 8 | 12% |
| Lebanon Rescue Mission Inc | $341,000 | 8 | 5% |
| United Way of Lebanon County Inc | $208,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Girl Scouts in the Heart of Pa | $173,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Developmental & Disability Services of Lebanon Valley | $100,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Annville Free Library Association | $100,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $70,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Volunteers in Medicine | $28,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Wildlife in Crisis Inc | $24,200 | 9 | 2% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Bishop Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Francis J Dixon Foundation · The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Laurie & Dave Foundation · United Way of Lebanon County Inc · Wenger Foundation Inc · Wellspan Health · United Way of the Capital Region · Lancaster County Community Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About The Bishop Foundation
- How much does The Bishop Foundation give?
- The Bishop Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $523,653 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Bishop Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Youth Development (20%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
- Who are The Bishop Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lebanon Valley College ($1.3M), Lebanon Community Library ($405k), Lebanon Rescue Mission Inc ($341k).
- Does The Bishop Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bishop Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bishop Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Francis J Dixon Foundation, The Foundation for Enhancing Communities, Laurie & Dave Foundation.
- Where is The Bishop Foundation based?
- The Bishop Foundation is based in PA.
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