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Anne T and Robert M Bass Foundation at a glance

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Anne T and Robert M Bass Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$2.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$19MArts & Culture$5.2MPhilanthropy$2.0MHuman Services$1.6MHealth$1.3MSocial Science$1.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$915kHousing & Shelter$690kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $485k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $600k
  • $250k+3 grants · $4.2M
$30,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$101M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY$2,829,013
THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION$1,000,000
AMON CARTER MUSEUM$350,000
EPIPHANY SCHOOL$100,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$100,000
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC$100,000
LUCILLE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH$100,000
CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY$50,000
TRINITY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$50,000
PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER$50,000
SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY$30,000
GOODWILL NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS$30,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$30,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ACADEMY: $30k → 10%NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ACADEMY: $30k → 10%NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ACADEMY: $30k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $130k → 14%NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ACADEMY: $25k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 14%NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ACADEMY: $25k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ACADEMY: $25k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $50k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $30k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $30k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $25k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $25k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $25k → 11%JAMES L WEST CENTER FOR DEMENTIA CARE: $10k → 11%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $125k → 11%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $100k → 11%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $100k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $25k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $25k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $25k → 11%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $100k → 11%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $100k → 11%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $50k → 11%SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $30k → 11%SAFEHAVEN TARRANT COUNTY: $30k → 11%SAFEHAVEN TARRANT COUNTY: $30k → 11%SAFEHAVEN TARRANT COUNTY: $25k → 11%SAFEHAVEN TARRANT COUNTY: $25k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
MA
IN
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23M · 42 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

42 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
25

Total granted

$23M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+35%

Still filing today

74%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $11M · revenue +24%
  • TB
    TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $3.5M · revenue +155%
  • MIDDLESEX SCHOOL
    2× · 2018–2022 · $1.5M · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC
    one grant, 2020 · $2.5M · revenue +7%
  • TA
    THE ANNE T AND ROBERT M BASS FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $2.0M
  • MS
    MIDDLESEX SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $2.0M
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.

04Its field

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.

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Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
2
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
3
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
4
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
5
Taylor University

The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.

Education
6
Texas Wesleyan University

Texas wesleyan university, guided by its deep methodist heritage, provides transformational learning experiences and research opportunities to a diverse group of students to develop their full potential as individuals and as members of the…

Education
7
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
8
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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9
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
10
Whitworth University

Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars.

Education
11
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
12
Baylor All Saints Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Center of Tarrant County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 70 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
38/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $11,124,128 · EducationGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMYMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $1,500,000 · EducationMIDDLESEX SCHOOLTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $850,000 · EducationTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INCNEW KEY SCHOOL INC: $545,000 · Education+5 more: $465,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $2,550,000 · OtherCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTICTHE ANNE T AND ROBERT M BASS FUND: $2,000,000 · OtherTHE ANNE T AND ROBERT M BASS FUNDMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $2,000,000 · OtherMIDDLESEX SCHOOLKEY CENTER: $1,000,000 · OtherKEY CENTERAT&T PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $1,000,000 · OtherAT&T PERFORMING ARTS CENTERNATIONAL MAIN STREET CENTER INC: $546,960 · Other+29 more: $2,332,423 · Other+29 moreTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC: $3,500,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS BALLET …AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART: $350,000 · Arts & CultureAMON CARTER M…+5 more: $340,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $575,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $190,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $185,000 · Human ServicesHAPPY HILL FARM CHILDRENS HOME INC: $165,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $140,000 · Human ServicesUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS: $75,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $600,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200,000 · HealthTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC: $165,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $135,000 · HealthTexas Health Resources Foundation: $115,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $75,000 · HealthAIDS OUTREACH CENTER: $75,000 · Health+1 more: $35,000 · HealthTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $1,000,000 · Social ScienceWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $600,000 · InternationalSpirit of America Worldwide: $100,000 · International
Education$14,484,128Other$11,429,383Arts & Culture$4,190,000Human Services$1,440,000Health$1,400,000Social Science$1,000,000International$700,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $11,124,128 over 3y, 11% of budgetTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC: $3,500,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $2,550,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $1,500,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $850,000 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $600,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $600,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $575,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetNATIONAL MAIN STREET CENTER INC: $546,960 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetNEW KEY SCHOOL INC: $545,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART: $350,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY: $300,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $190,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $190,000 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $185,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHAPPY HILL FARM CHILDRENS HOME INC: $165,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC: $165,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $140,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMOTHER CAROLINE ACADEMY & EDUCATION CENTER: $135,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $135,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWOODSIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTexas Health Resources Foundation: $115,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $105,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAVING HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSpirit of America Worldwide: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY: $90,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDAY RESOURCE CENTER FOR HOMELESS: $90,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIDS OUTREACH CENTER: $75,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $75,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetGoodwill Industries of Fort Worth Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVan Cliburn Foundation Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCommunity Food Bank: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFORT WORTH STOCK SHOW SYNDICATE: $52,385 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER FORT WORTH: $50,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetTexas Health Resources: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVING HOPE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBRITE DIVINITY SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFort Worth Opera Association Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPurdue Research Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …Thomas M Helen McKee …Communities Foundatio…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Amon G Carter-Star Te…Mary Potishman Lard T…Amon G Carter Foundat…Sid W Richardson Foun…Ken W Davis FoundationLeo Potishman Foundat…Paul E Andrews Jr Fou…The Morris Foundation
Community Foundation of North Texas (TaxTX32.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · Amon G Carter Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Ken W Davis Foundation · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · Paul E Andrews Jr Foundation · The Morris Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Anne T and Robert M Bass Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anne T and Robert M Bass Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy: 1% of income from government
  • The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Anne T and Robert M Bass Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 70 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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