Texas · Private foundation
Harry Bass Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $6.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 46 to 60
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $71M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Harry Bass Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21M 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 | 40 | $6.7M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 52 | $33M | 35% |
| FY2023 | 60 | $23M | 43% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $1.6M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $1.3M | 62% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dallas Historical Society | $7,050,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Readers 2 Leaders | $725,000 | 5 | 13% |
| North Texas Food Bank | $590,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Crossroads Community Services Inc | $575,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Momentous Institute | $400,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Southern Methodist University | $325,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Uplift Education | $285,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Dallas Zoological Society | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American Numismatic Association | $239,046 | 3 | 3% |
| Family Compass | $229,200 | 4 | 6% |
Show all 98 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($51M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harry Bass 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: The Dallas Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Rees-Jones Foundation · The Perot Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw
How this is measured
About Harry Bass Foundation
- How much does Harry Bass Foundation give?
- Harry Bass Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $6,691,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 60 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Harry Bass Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (69%), Arts & Culture (12%), Health (10%).
- Who are Harry Bass Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Dallas Historical Society ($7.0M), Readers 2 Leaders ($725k), North Texas Food Bank ($590k).
- Does Harry Bass Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harry Bass Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harry Bass Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dallas Foundation, Hillcrest Foundation, W P & Bulah Luse Foundation.
- Where is Harry Bass Foundation based?
- Harry Bass Foundation is based in TX.
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