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The Donald F & Edna G Bishop Scholarship Foundation at a glance

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The Donald F & Edna G Bishop Scholarship Foundation

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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$69k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$6.4MHealth$293kScience & Tech$17k
02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $682k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $239k
$17,784
Median grant
10
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIENA COLLEGE$68,800
HARTWICK COLLEGE$65,571
RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE$52,750
SUNY NEW PALTZ$51,505
NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE$40,000
UTICA UNIVERSITY$38,366
ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND$36,151
VASSAR COLLEGE$36,000
MARIST COLLEGE$32,750
BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY$32,750
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$29,732
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT$28,750
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA$24,133
ITHACA COLLEGE$24,000
VIRGINIA TECH$23,877
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $35k → 22%NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE: $40k → 9%RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $53k → 11%HARTWICK COLLEGE: $251k → 13%NEW YORK CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE: $35k → 14%SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY: $70k → 14%UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY: $56k → 14%UTICA UNIVERSITY: $63k → 16%SUNY NEW PALTZ: $59k → 16%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $37k → 14%RUSH UNIVERSITY: $35k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $39k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND: $35k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $35k → 22%RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $44k → 11%HARTWICK COLLEGE: $91k → 13%NEW YORK CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE: $35k → 14%SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY: $60k → 14%UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY: $55k → 14%UTICA UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%SUNY NEW PALTZ: $39k → 16%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $35k → 14%RUSH UNIVERSITY: $35k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $38k → 10%HARTWICK COLLEGE: $67k → 13%SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY: $53k → 14%UTICA COLLEGE: $50k → 16%HARTWICK COLLEGE: $67k → 13%SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY: $43k → 14%UTICA COLLEGE: $43k → 16%HARTWICK COLLEGE: $66k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $50k → 14%UTICA COLLEGE: $43k → 16%VASSAR COLLEGE: $36k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $44k → 14%UTICA UNIVERSITY: $38k → 16%UNIVERSITITY AT BUFFALO: $50k → 13%UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO: $84k → 13%UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO: $83k → 13%UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO: $83k → 13%UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO: $68k → 13%UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO: $63k → 13%UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO: $61k → 13%UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO: $58k → 13%SIENA COLLEGE: $69k → 14%SIENA COLLEGE: $63k → 14%SIENA COLLEGE: $45k → 14%SIENA COLLEGE: $42k → 14%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
VT
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 69 repeat orgs$336k to everyone else

69 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
38

Total granted

$6.1M
$226k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+48%

Still filing today

61%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthOther
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

  • HC
    Hartwick College
    6× · 2017–2025 · $552k · revenue +8%
  • SU
    SIENA UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $236k · revenue +17%
  • RS
    RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE
    7× · 2017–2025 · $201k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • HC
    HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -21%
  • GU
    GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2022 · $18k
  • V
    VCOM
    one grant, 2017 · $18k
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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
Manhattanville University

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

Education
4
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
5
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
6
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
7
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
8
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
9
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
10
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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11
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

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 Sacred Heart University Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 121 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
47/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Hartwick College: $552,461 · EducationHartwick CollegeUTICA UNIVERSITY: $378,368 · EducationUTICA UNIVERSITYSIENA UNIVERSITY: $236,375 · EducationSIENA UNIVERSITYRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $201,250 · EducationRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGEPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $140,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $140,000 · EducationD'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY: $129,468 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $125,595 · Education+42 more: $1,811,157 · Education+42 moreUNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO: $498,144 · OtherUNIVERSITY AT BUFFALOSUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY: $295,000 · OtherSUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITYSUNY NEW PALTZ: $277,895 · OtherSUNY NEW PALTZUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY: $218,661 · OtherUNIVERSITY AT ALBANYBINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY: $188,855 · OtherBINGHAMTON UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $156,456 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONTVASSAR COLLEGE: $100,673 · Other+62 more: $1,113,748 · Other+62 moreRush University Medical Center: $140,000 · HealthBROWN UNIVERSITY: $8,750 · Community Improvement
Education$3,714,674Other$2,849,432Health$140,000Community Improvement$8,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHartwick College: $552,461 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUTICA UNIVERSITY: $378,368 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSIENA UNIVERSITY: $236,375 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $201,250 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $140,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $140,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $140,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetD'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY: $129,468 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $125,595 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $122,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $119,358 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $116,667 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY: $116,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $100,673 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMount Saint Mary College: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES: $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetITHACA COLLEGE: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $57,660 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMarywood University: $56,671 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $56,538 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $52,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $52,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $52,004 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $44,886 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $38,467 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $37,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $35,831 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDAILLE UNIVERSITY: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $34,706 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $34,593 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $26,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $26,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $26,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEUKA COLLEGE: $26,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCedarville University: $26,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $26,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $19,973 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $19,957 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $17,253 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Hartwick College ↗
  • Who funds UTICA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SIENA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds D'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds MARIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Mount Saint Mary College ↗
  • Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds University of New England ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ITHACA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds Marywood University ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GETTYSBURG COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

JM McDonald Foundatio…The Pfizer Foundation…Ehlermann-Fedderke De…Gazin Norbert L Educa…Verizon FoundationJessie H Baker Educat…The Community Foundat…National Collegiate A…Central New York Comm…Ge Aerospace Foundati…American Heart Associ…Ibm International Fou…
JM McDonald Foundation IncDE17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ehlermann-Fedderke Descendants Foundation · Gazin Norbert L Education Pfdn 101-0628960 · Verizon Foundation · Jessie H Baker Educational Fund · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Heart Association Inc · Ibm International Foundation

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 The Donald F & Edna G Bishop Scholarship Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Donald F & Edna G Bishop Scholarship Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 11% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 11% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 5% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 2% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • Mcphs University: 1% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 121 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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