Ohio · Private foundation
The Bay Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $58k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 40
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $520k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations The Bay Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $58k | 39% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $52k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $46k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $48k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $47k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $57k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Desert Mountain Foundation | $48,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ashland University | $37,650 | 5 | 0% |
| Arizona Musicfest Inc | $19,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | $15,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Cleveland Zoological Society | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Art Therapy Studio | $14,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Musical Arts Association | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| City Mission | $6,550 | 6 | n/a |
| Cave Creek Museum | $4,750 | 6 | 0% |
| The Bay Village Foundation | $4,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($97k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bay Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About The Bay Foundation
- How much does The Bay Foundation give?
- The Bay Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $58,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 40 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Bay Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Arts & Culture (27%), Religion (11%).
- Who are The Bay Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Desert Mountain Foundation ($48k), Ashland University ($38k), Arizona Musicfest Inc ($19k).
- Does The Bay Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bay Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bay Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust, Arizona Community Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix.
- Where is The Bay Foundation based?
- The Bay Foundation is based in OH.
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