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Cm Bass Foundation
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $68
- $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $335k
- $250k+2 grants · $720k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC | $470,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA INC | $250,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $110,000 |
| ST LUKES SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| MIDDLESEX SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| THE MAD FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| LYNNE COHEN FOUNDATION FOR OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH | $25,000 |
| THE DAWN REDWOODS TRUST | $25,000 |
| EAT REAL CERTIFIED INC | $25,000 |
| UCSF FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE CHINATI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PASSED THROUGH FROM FW LKCM HEADWATER INVESTORS III LLC | $68 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k 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
- DCDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +61%
MIDDLESEX SCHOOL6× · 2018–2024 · $550k · revenue +26%
DUKE UNIVERSITY5× · 2019–2024 · $410k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- BOBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FUND-THE CHRISTOPHER M BASS FAMILY FUNDone grant, 2023 · $163k
- NFNeighbors for a Better San Franciscograduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +91%
- GGGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +61%
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.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…
The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Museum of Art and the most unlike its peers is Habits of Waste. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 29 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 DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE MAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA ↗
- Who funds Eat Real Certified Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Neighbors for a Better San Francisco ↗
- Who funds LYNNE COHEN FOUNDATION FOR OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE CHINATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH STOCK SHOW SYNDICATE ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Culper ↗
- Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds Sylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue ↗
- Who funds Wide Rainbow Corporation ↗
- Who funds LA LUZ CENTER ↗
- Who funds HABITS OF WASTE ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Cm Bass 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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