· Private foundation
The Bay Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ART THERAPY STUDIO | $3,000 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART | $3,000 |
| CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION | $2,600 |
| BAY ALUMNI FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BURTON-MIDDLEFIELD ROTARY FOUNDATIO | $2,500 |
| ST MARY'S FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| THE CITY MISSION | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| CAVE CREEK MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| THE BAY VILLAGE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF WHEATO | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- BRBURTON-MIDDLEFIELD ROTARY CLUBone grant, 2023 · $3k
- TPTHE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARYone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
- BFBMR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +6%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 90 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds DESERT MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SIGMA NU EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BAY MUSIC BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Chardon Storm Fastpitch Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bay Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bay Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Spoke Art Inc (Fka Medicine Wheel Productions Inc): 22% of income from government
- Community Music Center of Boston Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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