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Fort Mason Center

FORT MASON CENTER engages and connects people with arts and culture on a historic waterfront campus.

$5.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$7.4MHousing & Shelter$233kEnvironment$115kCrime & Legal$111kFood & Nutrition$14k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $138k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $274k
  • $250k+2 grants · $5.1M
$39,472
Median grant
1
States reached
$78M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GREENS: $101k → 10%GRABHORN INSTITUTE: $2.9M → 10%BATS IMPROV: $2.3M → 10%MAGIC THEATRE: $1.3M → 10%MUSEO: $398k → 10%SF CAMERAWORK: $176k → 10%BLUE BEAR SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $173k → 10%MUSEO: $133k → 10%GREENSZEN CENTER: $101k → 10%SF CHILDREN'S ART CENTER: $100k → 10%ETC: $39k → 10%ETC: $39k → 10%CALIFORNIA LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS: $37k → 10%CALIFORNIA LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS: $37k → 10%CALIFORNIA LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS: $37k → 10%ETC: $36k → 10%LONG NOW FOUNDATION: $31k → 10%FORSITE: $30k → 10%FORSITE: $30k → 10%SEEDLINGS: $7k → 10%SEEDLINGS: $7k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

13%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 6 repeat orgs$6.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +128% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$1.0M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+128%
+17%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MI
    MUSEO ITALOAMERICANO
    4× · 2018–2023 · $531k · revenue +494% · 57% of their budget
  • Environmental Traveling Companions
    5× · 2018–2024 · $115k · revenue +28%
  • CL
    California Lawyers for the Arts
    6× · 2018–2024 · $111k · revenue +149%

Funded once

  • MT
    MAGIC THEATRE INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +17% · 87% of their budget
  • SF
    San Francisco Camerawork Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $176k · revenue +14% · 51% of their budget
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO CHILDRENS ART CENTERgraduated
    2× · 2019–2022 · $100k · revenue +88% · 67% of their budget
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.

04Its field

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.

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Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
San Francisco Art Studio Foundation
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3
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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4
San Francisco Center for the Book

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!

Education
5
Intersection for the Arts

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Sfai Legacy Foundation and Archive

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…

Arts & Culture
7
San Francisco Film Society

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…

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8
Sonoma Plein Air Foundation

Promotion of arts education

Arts & Culture
9
San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company

Sfbatco unites artists and audiences through live theatre that is reflective of the authentic perspectives and history of the san francisco bay area.

Arts & Culture
10
Artist Trust

Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.

Arts & Culture
11
San Francisco Performances Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
12
San Francisco Independent Film Festival

SF IndieFest presents important independent narrative, documentary, and short films from around the world.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is For-Site Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRABHORN INSTITUTE: $2,881,039 · Arts & CultureGRABHORN INSTITUTEBay Area Theatresports dba BATS Improv: $2,254,477 · Arts & CultureBay Area Theatresports dba BATS ImprovMAGIC THEATRE INC: $1,251,641 · Arts & CultureMAGIC THEATRE INCMUSEO ITALOAMERICANO: $530,880 · Arts & CultureMUSEO ITALOAMERICANO+4 more: $520,342 · Arts & Culture+4 moreGREENSZEN CENTER: $202,344 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO CHILDRENS ART CENTER: $99,762 · OtherEnvironmental Traveling Companions: $115,126 · EnvironmentTHE LONG NOW FOUNDATION: $31,143 · EducationSeedling Projects Good Food Foundation: $14,358 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$7,438,379Other$302,106Environment$115,126Education$31,143Food & Nutrition$14,358

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAGIC THEATRE INC: $1,251,641 over 4y, 87% of budgetMUSEO ITALOAMERICANO: $530,880 over 4y, 57% of budgetSan Francisco Camerawork Inc: $176,100 over 1y, 51% of budgetBLUE BEAR SCHOOL of MUSIC: $172,930 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetEnvironmental Traveling Companions: $115,126 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetCalifornia Lawyers for the Arts: $111,096 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO CHILDRENS ART CENTER: $99,762 over 2y, 67% of budgetFOR-SITE Foundation: $60,216 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetTHE LONG NOW FOUNDATION: $31,143 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSeedling Projects Good Food Foundation: $14,358 over 4y, 1.2% of budget
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.

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.

The Maxwellhanrahan F…The San Francisco Fou…Fleishhacker Foundati…Marin Community Found…The Bernard Osher Fou…Jewish Community Fede…Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Chicago Community…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…
The Maxwellhanrahan FoundationCA30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fort Mason Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fort Mason Center. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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