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Fort Mason Center
FORT MASON CENTER engages and connects people with arts and culture on a historic waterfront campus.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $274k
- $250k+2 grants · $5.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRABHORN INSTITUTE | $2,881,039 |
| BATS IMPROV | $2,254,477 |
| BLUE BEAR SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $172,930 |
| GREENSZEN CENTER | $101,172 |
| ETC | $39,472 |
| CALIFORNIA LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS | $37,032 |
| LONG NOW FOUNDATION | $31,143 |
| FORSITE | $30,108 |
| SEEDLINGS | $7,027 |
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 (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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 +128% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 1 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, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.3M 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
- MIMUSEO ITALOAMERICANO4× · 2018–2023 · $531k · revenue +494% · 57% of their budget
Environmental Traveling Companions5× · 2018–2024 · $115k · revenue +28%- CLCalifornia Lawyers for the Arts6× · 2018–2024 · $111k · revenue +149%
Funded once
- MTMAGIC THEATRE INC4× · 2017–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +17% · 87% of their budget
- SFSan Francisco Camerawork Incone grant, 2022 · $176k · revenue +14% · 51% of their budget
- SFSAN FRANCISCO CHILDRENS ART CENTERgraduated2× · 2019–2022 · $100k · revenue +88% · 67% of their budget
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.
San Francisco Center For The Book is a center of inspiration for the Book Arts world, featuring the art and craft of letterpress printing, bookbinding, and artists' bookmaking. We are dedicated to the art of the book!
consulting and presenting opportunities to artists. We promote creative expression as a means for reflection, for celebration, for economic growth and for finding solutions to the challenges that confront our communities.
The SFAI Legacy Foundation & Archive (SFAI LF&A) is an independent non-profit formed to protect sustain and carry forward the legacy of the San Francisco Art Institute - a legacy of bold experimental artistic practice and innovative…
SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…
Promotion of arts education
Sfbatco unites artists and audiences through live theatre that is reflective of the authentic perspectives and history of the san francisco bay area.
Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.
SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.
SF IndieFest presents important independent narrative, documentary, and short films from around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is For-Site Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Seedling Projects Good Food Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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.
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 GRABHORN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Theatresports dba BATS Improv ↗
- Who funds MAGIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEO ITALOAMERICANO ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Camerawork Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUE BEAR SCHOOL of MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Environmental Traveling Companions ↗
- Who funds California Lawyers for the Arts ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO CHILDRENS ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOR-SITE Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE LONG NOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Seedling Projects Good Food Foundation ↗
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: The Maxwellhanrahan Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Fleishhacker Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Bernard Osher Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Fort Mason Center 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.