· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AKAR KIDS READ7× · 2019–2025 · $23k · revenue +31%
- AHARKANSAS HOSPICE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $22k · revenue +34%
- 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 -21%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 40 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 WOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Positive Atmosphere Reaches Kids Inc ↗
- 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 OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ACANSA ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bass Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bass Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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