· Private foundation
The Bishop Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| LEBANON RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| JUBILEE MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 46 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 FRIENDS OF COLEMAN MEMORIAL PARK ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER-LEBANON EDUCATION FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds LEBANON VALLEY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MUSIC IN THE PARK ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF LEBANON COUNTY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bishop Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bishop Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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