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The Bishop Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $107k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $382k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA | $150,000 |
| LEBANON VALLEY EXPO CENTER | $100,000 |
| DDS | $77,000 |
| LEBANON COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $55,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF LEBANON COUNTY | $35,000 |
| VISION CORP FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $12,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| CASA | $10,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL PA | $10,000 |
| SUSQUEHANNA SERVICE DOGS | $10,000 |
| HISTORIC PRESERVATION TRUST OF LEBANON VALLEY | $6,153 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS CAPITAL REGION | $5,000 |
| WILDLIFE IN CRISIS | $5,000 |
| LEBANON RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $199k 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
- LVLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE5× · 2017–2021 · $1.3M · revenue +26%
- LCLEBANON COMMUNITY LIBRARY8× · 2017–2025 · $405k · revenue +61%
- LRLEBANON RESCUE MISSION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $341k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- BPBSA PA DUTCH COUNCILone grant, 2024 · $150k
- DDDEVELOPMENTAL & DISABILITY SERVICES OF LEBANON VALLEYone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +5%
- AFANNVILLE FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -24%
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.
Our mission is to serve the health and wellness needs of the uninsured who live in lebanon county, pa.
The historical society of mount lebanon serves and promotes the community by collecting, preserving, interpreting, and sharing its history in ways designed to inspire our present and guide our future.
Continuing study of economic development, site identification and development, and industrial solicitation in a continuing effort to revitalize the local business sector.
Lebanon county library system provides the means by which the six libraries in lebanon county share resources. resources include the online catalog system, technology support, and e-book lending. it also serves as the conduit for state and…
We are lebanon valley's leading business organization providing education, networking, services, and advocacy to support and develop our members and business community.
The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…
Promotion of lebanon valley
Operation of three senior citizens centers with approximately 450 seniors citizens thru the Westmoreland County Area Agency on Aging.
Promote civic, commercial, recreational, historical, environmental and general interest in the ligonier valley of westmoreland county pennsylvania
Our mission is success through lifelong learning and learning for life. our vision is for adults to have the skills to transform their lives, sustain their families and strengthen their communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lebanon Valley Council On the Arts and the most unlike its peers is Iglesia Pentecostal Casa de Oracio. 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 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 8% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 46 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 LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LEBANON COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds LEBANON RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LEBANON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL & DISABILITY SERVICES OF LEBANON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ANNVILLE FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CAPITAL REGION ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC PRESERVATION TRUST OF ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SIXTH STREET PLAYGROUND ASSOC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER-LEBANON EDUCATION FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF COLEMAN MEMORIAL PARK ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LEBANON VALLEY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MUSIC IN THE PARK ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF LEBANON COUNTY ↗
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: 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
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 Bishop 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.
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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