· Private foundation
Bay City Capital Foundation
Its FY2020 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 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k10 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCE | $20,000 |
| BOARD OF TRUSTEE OF THE GLIDE FOUNDATION | $4,550 |
| SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| NORTH MARIN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $2,500 |
| MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $1,500 |
| JUMA VENTURES INC | $1,500 |
| MAKING WAVES FOUNDATION INC | $1,500 |
| COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES | $1,300 |
| STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE AT BROCKPORT FOUNDATION INC | $78 |
| LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $50 |
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 (FY18–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 36% of Bay City Capital Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 52% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 57%.
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 +71% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RDRED DOOR COMMUNITY INC2× · 2017–2018 · $24k · revenue +71%
- HIHUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY3× · 2017–2019 · $24k · revenue +2%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK4× · 2017–2020 · $7k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- ALAmerican Liver Foundationone grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue -77%
- NCNORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +19%
- SISEND ITgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +324%
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.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Please see schedule o
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 22 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 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RED DOOR COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds American Liver Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GLIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Novato Human Needs Center ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds North Marin Community Services ↗
- Who funds MAKING WAVES FOUNDATION INC AKA MAKING WAVES EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUMA VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SEND IT ↗
- Who funds HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Root Division ↗
- Who funds THE MOSAIC PROJECT ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE AT BROCKPORT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
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 San Francisco Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bay City Capital Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bay City Capital Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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