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The Michael Basso Memorial Foundation

TO PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS, DONATIONS, AND OTHER SUPPORT TO CHARITABLE AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$23k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,005
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$252k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Little Wishes$10,0051n/a
Bump It Up San Rafael$2,5001n/a
Play Marin$1,00010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($27k), not named here.

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About The Michael Basso Memorial Foundation

How much does The Michael Basso Memorial Foundation give?
The Michael Basso Memorial Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $22,785 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does The Michael Basso Memorial Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (94%), Recreation & Sports (6%).
Who are The Michael Basso Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: Little Wishes ($10k), Bump It Up San Rafael ($3k), Play Marin ($1k).
Does The Michael Basso Memorial Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is The Michael Basso Memorial Foundation based?
The Michael Basso Memorial Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 7 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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