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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN FRANCISCO MISSION YMCA | $10,000 |
| GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS | $5,000 |
| ARKANSAS STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NICK WOULD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AR KIDS READ | $5,000 |
| VERA LLOYD PRESBYTERIAN SERVICE | $4,179 |
| MAMIE'S POPPY PLATES | $2,500 |
| ISIAH JOE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- AKAR KIDS READ7× · 2019–2025 · $23k · revenue +31%
- AHARKANSAS HOSPICE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $22k · revenue +29%
- GSGREENHOUSE SCHOLARS2× · 2023–2025 · $8k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- AIACCESS INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -36%
- WSWORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLINDone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -10%
- AHARKANSAS HUNGER RELIEF ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue -11%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Advocating for the development and implementation of data-driven public policy that improves child well-being in arkansas, with a focus on economic security, education, health, early childhood, child welfare, juvenile justice, and racial…
To provide legal assistance & housing counseling to the underprivileged citizens of north arkansas.
The organization and its volunteers serve as advocates for abused and neglected children.
Provide help to domestic violence victims and encourage community efforts to promote domestic peace.
The organization provides a therapeutic shelter and care for homeless and/or abused children.
Dedicated to strengthening the multi-disciplinary response to child abuse. We strive to ensure that professionals throughout Alaska are equipped to do the best job possible at holding offenders accountable and helping children and families…
Advocate for educational professionals and unite our members and the state to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.
Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities
To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
The organization and its volunteers served as advocates for abused and neglected children. the nationwide organization has helped more than two million children.
To provide services to low income individuals.
To provide a safe have, high quality care, and hope for the future to chidren who have been abandoned, abused, or neglected.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ar Kids Read and the most unlike its peers is Mamie's Poppy Plates. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AR KIDS READ ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS HUNGER RELIEF ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP ALDERSGATE INC ↗
- Who funds Positive Atmosphere Reaches Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds COLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds MAMIE'S POPPY PLATES ↗
- Who funds PULASKI COUNTY ADOPTION COALITION INC DBA PROJECT ZERO ↗
- Who funds PARENTS AND FRIENDS OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS ↗
- Who funds LITERACY ACTION OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds ACANSA ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bass Family Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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