Florida · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INC
FRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INC (Florida) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,239,057 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($1,497,500). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.0M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Friends of the Bass Museum Inc does
Mission
The bass, miami beach's contemporary art museum, creates connections between international contemporary art and the museum's diverse audiences. The bass shares the power of contemporary art through experiences that excite, challenge, and educate.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The bass seeks to expand the interpretation of contemporary art by incorporating disciplines of contemporary culture, such as design, fashion and architecture, into the exhibition program. The exhibition program encompasses a wide range of media and artistic points of view that bring new thought to the diverse cultural context of miami beach.
$1,284,110 spent$102,506 earned by the program32% of program spendingDesigned for children ages 4-12, art camps at the bass are led by professional museum educators, teaching artists and certified m-dps art teachers. During camp sessions, campers make a one-of-a-kind steam inspired projects and learn through fun, hands-on art activities in sculpture, painting, design and more. Art camps run during miami-dade public school spring, summer and winter breaks.
$390,609 spent$78,704 earned by the program10% of program spendingThe steam plus program is a city and county-wide effort to enrich the educational system in miami beach by engaging students with the subjects of science, technology, engineering, art and math.
$308,387 spent8% of program spendingOther program servce expenses
$2,067,606 spent$1,174,312 earned by the program51% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,050,712.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $14M to $17M (+16%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 18% · 2018 37% · 2019 50% · 2020 37% · 2021 62% · 2022 22% · 2023 18% · 2024 15% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of FRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Silvia Karman Cubina
Executive director & chief curator
Board chair
George Lindemann
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $42k → $886k.
15 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 42% · 2019 72% · 2020 59% · 2021 59% · 2022 42% · 2023 28% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
44% of FRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
75% of FRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $114k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$114k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INC (Florida) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,239,057 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($1,497,500). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $4,239,057 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INC?
- JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,497,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 46 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing