· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE MAD FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| MIDDLESEX SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| EAT REAL CERTIFIED INC | $25,000 |
| UCSF FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE DAWN REDWOODS TRUST | $25,000 |
| LYNNE COHEN FOUNDATION FOR OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH | $25,000 |
| THE CHINATI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PASSED THROUGH FROM FW LKCM HEADWATER INVESTORS III LLC | $68 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +74% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +74%
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 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.
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 29 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 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 Sylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds Wide Rainbow Corporation ↗
- Who funds LA LUZ CENTER ↗
- Who funds HABITS OF WASTE ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cm Bass Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cm Bass Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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