How much does The Bassman Family Charitable Trust give?

The Bassman Family Charitable Trust reported 65 grants totaling $194,239 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 60 and 79 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Bassman Family Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (25%), Arts & Culture (21%), Religion (19%).

Who are The Bassman Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Riverside Park Conservancy Inc ($357k), Laguna Art Museum ($142k), Westhampton Synagogue Inc ($139k).

Does The Bassman Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Bassman Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Bassman Family Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, Macgillivray Family Foundation, The Hanauer Family Foundation.

Where is The Bassman Family Charitable Trust based?

The Bassman Family Charitable Trust is based in NY.

The Bassman Family Charitable Trust

The Bassman Family Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

The Bassman Family Charitable Trust

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.

$194k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$31k

Largest

01What it funds

0184% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$407kArts & Culture$343kReligion$317kPhilanthropy$185kEducation$130kFood & Nutrition$22kHealth$21kInternational$12kOther$0

02FY2024 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k57 grants · $31k
$10k–50k8 grants · $163k

$200

Median grant

States reached

$21k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE	$31,020
HAMPTON SYNAGOGUE	$27,200
RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY	$26,000
LAGUNA ART MUSEUM	$24,100
UJA FEDERATION OF NY	$18,036
TEMPLE BAT YAHM	$13,435
JEWISH FEDERATION & FAMILY SERVICES ORANGE COUNTY	$12,246
PACIFIC SYMPHONY	$11,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD ORANGE	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$3,960
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO	$2,500
REUTUSA	$2,495
B NAI JESHURUN	$1,800
LAGUNA BEACH LIVE	$1,196
PUBLIC ART FUND	$1,100

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 109 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

109 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2024, 61 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

109

132

Total granted

$1.4M

$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+27%

Still filing today

53%

34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

RP
RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $357k · revenue +52%
LA
LAGUNA ART MUSEUM
7× · 2017–2024 · $142k · revenue +46%
UJ
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +39%

Funded once

QL
QUOGUE LIBRARY CAPITAL
one grant, 2018 · $25k
S
SYNAGOGE
one grant, 2018 · $11k
CS
CHABAD SHUL OF POTOMAC
one grant, 2023 · $10k

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.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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,…

Arts & Culture

The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture

New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment

Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture

San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture

Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

The Contemporary Jewish Museum

The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.

Arts & Culture

San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture

Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

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…

Arts & Culture

The Paley Center for Media

Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Tikvah Fund. 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

116 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. 116 of the 262 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

116/116

Grantees still filing

82/116

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$606,224Environment$358,035Arts & Culture$314,993Philanthropy$180,901Education$101,407Recreation & Sports$50,068Youth Development$14,450

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA32× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Macgillivray Family Foundation · The Hanauer Family Foundation · Laguna Beach Community Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Orange County · J Stanley & Mary W Johnson Family Foundation · Samueli Foundation · Roberta Freeman Cox Charitable Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund

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 The Bassman Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bassman Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home