· Private foundation
The George S Bissell Charitable 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 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 $10k4 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $96k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $663k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANATOLIA COLLEGE | $206,666 |
| HIRAM COLLEGE | $105,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $100,000 |
| CAMFED USA | $100,000 |
| BRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL | $93,334 |
| TENACRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $58,334 |
| GLOBAL GIVING | $23,654 |
| PARTNERS IN ISLAND EDUCATION | $22,475 |
| WELLESLEY VILLAGE CHURCH | $20,000 |
| AFRICAN COLLABORATION | $10,000 |
| PROJECT OF EASTON INC | $10,000 |
| ONEGOAL | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,291 |
| CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION HAMMERSTONE SCHOOL | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF ANATOLIA COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $464k · revenue +74%
- CUCAMFED USA FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $271k · revenue +653%
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $219k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $34k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $7k
- ROREACH OUT & READ PHILADELPHIAone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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.
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…
To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 31 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 THE TRUSTEES OF ANATOLIA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CAMFED USA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HIRAM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TENACRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Partners In Island Education Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds BLAIR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI AND SPORTS ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds KARL STIRNER ARTS TRAIL ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The George S Bissell Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The George S Bissell Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports: 11% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Blair Academy: 0% of income from government
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