Arkansas · Private foundation
Bass Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $54k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 12
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $940k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 63% of the organizations Bass Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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 | 12 | $54k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $32k | 63% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $30k | 70% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $36k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $32k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $30k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $23k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ar Kids Read | $22,965 | 7 | 1% |
| Arkansas Hospice Inc | $22,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Access Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| World Services for the Blind | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greenhouse Scholars | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance Inc | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Camp Aldersgate Inc | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Women & Children First the Center Against Family Violence | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Arkansas Foodbank | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Arkansas State Golf Association | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ar Kids Read | $22,965 | 7 | 1% |
| Arkansas Hospice Inc | $22,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Access Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| World Services for the Blind | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greenhouse Scholars | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance Inc | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Camp Aldersgate Inc | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Women & Children First the Center Against Family Violence | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Arkansas Foodbank | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Arkansas State Golf Association | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Positive Atmosphere Reaches Kids Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Colorado Youth Outdoors Charitable Trust | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mamie's Poppy Plates | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Pulaski County Adoption Coalition Inc Dba Project Zero | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Parents and Friends of Children and Adults | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Literacy Action of Central Arkansas Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Our House Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Acansa Arts Festival | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Arkansas Children's Hospital | $150 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($120k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bass Family 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: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Arvest Foundation · Heart of Arkansas United Way · Lpr Foundation · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · John R & Judy W Fletcher Family Foundation · Nabholz Charitable Foundation · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Brown Foundation · Rebsamen Fund · The Hussman Foundation
How this is measured
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About Bass Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Bass Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Bass Family Charitable Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $53,679 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Bass Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Arts & Culture (18%), Human Services (18%).
- Who are Bass Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Ar Kids Read ($23k), Arkansas Hospice Inc ($22k), Access Inc ($10k).
- Does Bass Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bass Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bass Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, Riggs Benevolent Fund, Arvest Foundation.
- Where is Bass Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Bass Family Charitable Foundation is based in AR.
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