· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of THE DONALD F & EDNA G BISHOP SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $682k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $239k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
- HCHartwick College6× · 2017–2025 · $552k · revenue +8%
- SUSIENA UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $236k · revenue +17%
- RSRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE7× · 2017–2025 · $201k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- HCHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEESone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -21%
- GUGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINEone grant, 2022 · $18k
Trustees of Tufts Collegegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +50%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacred Heart University Incorporated and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 81 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 121 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 Hartwick College ↗
- Who funds UTICA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SIENA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- 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 ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds University of New England ↗
- Who funds Mount Saint Mary College ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Donald F & Edna G Bishop Scholarship 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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.