· Private foundation
The Anne Hendricks Bass Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $325k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $651k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| EARTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $194,991 |
| THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN | $150,000 |
| CAROLINA BALLET | $100,000 |
| KENT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $81,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $75,000 |
| NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF GREAT DIXTER | $50,000 |
| LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $35,000 |
| MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FT WORTH | $25,000 |
| NEW YORKERS FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $25,000 |
| American Ballet Theatre | $25,000 |
| MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| Breast Cancer Research Foundation | $25,000 |
| Brooklyn Academy of Music | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 73% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of The Anne Hendricks Bass Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 2% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 11% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
60 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 20 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- NYNew York University5× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +59%
- NYNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN6× · 2019–2024 · $900k · revenue +42%
CAROLINA BALLET INC7× · 2017–2024 · $478k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- NBNY Botanical Gardenone grant, 2017 · $50k
- NYNEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY DANCE DIVISIONone grant, 2022 · $50k
- JSJUILLIARD SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +28%
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 mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is The Neue Galerie New York. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
62 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. 62 of the 86 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 New York University ↗
- Who funds EARTH University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART INC ↗
- Who funds KENT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEUE GALERIE NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF GREAT DIXTER LTD ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARIS OPERA AND BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROYAL OAK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORKERS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE OPERA THEATER OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US) ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: H & L Family Foundation Inc · Charles & Jane Klein Family Fund · Ag Foundation · Babbitt Family Charitable Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Weingarten Family Foundation · The Alice M & Thomas J Tisch Foundation Inc · The Evelyn Sharp Foundation · The Kestrel Foundation · The Jeff and Erica Keswin Family Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund
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 The Anne Hendricks 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.
- Housatonic Valley Association Inc — 38% of income from government
- Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc — 9% of income from government
- Montgomery Botanical Center — 0% of income from government
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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