Missouri · Private foundation
Bascom Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $122k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $36,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Bascom Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 | 25 | $86k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $86k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $77k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $78k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $131k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $108k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $108k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $116k | 11% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our Sisters School | $56,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees | $50,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Sippican Historical Society | $30,400 | 8 | 2% |
| Sippican Lands Trust Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Womens Fund Southcoast Inc | $26,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Youth Opportunities Unlimited | $25,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Missouri Historical Society | $22,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum Inc | $19,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Old Dartmouth Historical Society | $18,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Leadership SouthCoast Inc | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 52 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($424k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bascom Charitable 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: Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · The Ludes Family Foundation · Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002 · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Quarterdeck Foundation · Alvord Family Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Miller Foundation · The Croll Foundation · Enable Hope Foundation · First Citizens Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Bascom Charitable Foundation
- How much does Bascom Charitable Foundation give?
- Bascom Charitable Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $121,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bascom Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (41%), Arts & Culture (12%), Education (11%).
- Who are Bascom Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Our Sisters School ($56k), Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees ($50k), Sippican Historical Society ($30k).
- Does Bascom Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bascom Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bascom Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Southcoast Community Foundation Inc, The Ludes Family Foundation, Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002.
- Where is Bascom Charitable Foundation based?
- Bascom Charitable Foundation is based in MO.
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