· Private foundation
The Bay Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DESERT MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HOLY REDEEMER CHURCH | $7,500 |
| ARIZONA MUSICFEST | $5,000 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART | $3,000 |
| CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| ART THERAPY STUDIO | $3,000 |
| PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION | $2,600 |
| BAY ALUMNI FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BURTON-MIDDLEFIELD ROTARY FOUNDATIO | $2,500 |
| THE CITY MISSION | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| ST MARY'S FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| THE BAY VILLAGE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF WHEATO | $1,500 |
| CAVE CREEK MUSEUM | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 73% of those 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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- AMARIZONA MUSICFEST INC6× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +100%
- CMCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +23%
- CZCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- TPTHE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARYone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
- BFBMR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +6%
- BRBURTON-MIDDLEFIELD ROTARY CLUBone grant, 2023 · $3k
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 cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
For 124 years, the toledo museum of art has offered free admission to one of the world's great art collections housed in its greek revival main building and the glass pavilion. the museum has an extensive education program, offering…
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
Through the power of art, we contribute to a more vibrant cincinnati by inspiring its people and connecting our communities.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
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…
Champion equitable and impactful museums by connecting people, fostering learning and community, and nurturing museum excellence.
The tucson museum of art and historic block connects art to life through meaningful and engaging experiences that inspire discovery, spark creativity, and promote cultural understanding.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Phoenix Theatre Company and Subsidiary and the most unlike its peers is Phillip M Devito Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 24% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 90 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 ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA MUSICFEST INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ART THERAPY STUDIO ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds Cave Creek Museum ↗
- Who funds THE BAY VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELDORADO ARTS & CRAFTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds BMR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILLIP M DEVITO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIGMA NU EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BAY MUSIC BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Chardon Storm Fastpitch Inc ↗
- Who funds SPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS 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: Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Arizona Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · The Swagelok Foundation · Columbus Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation 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 The Bay 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.
- Spoke Art Inc (Fka Medicine Wheel Productions Inc) — 22% of income from government
- Community Music Center of Boston Inc — 1% 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.