Texas · Private foundation
Kobes Arts
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.
- $5k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,850
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Kobes Arts funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 4 | $5k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $2k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $6k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $1k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $2k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $15k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $49k | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dallas Contemporary | $43,860 | 5 | 1% |
| Big Thought | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| JUNTOS Collective Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Texas International Theatrical Arts Society | $9,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Dallas Museum of Art | $8,250 | 9 | 0% |
| Southern Methodist University | $6,020 | 2 | 0% |
| Sammons Center for the Arts | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Broadway Dallas Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($19k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kobes Arts 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 Eugene McDermott Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Taca Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Kobes Arts
- How much does Kobes Arts give?
- Kobes Arts reported 4 grants totaling $5,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kobes Arts fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (81%), Education (19%).
- Who are Kobes Arts's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dallas Contemporary ($44k), Big Thought ($10k), JUNTOS Collective Inc ($10k).
- Does Kobes Arts fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kobes Arts 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 Kobes Arts?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Eugene McDermott Foundation, Texas Instruments Foundation, Taca Inc.
- Where is Kobes Arts based?
- Kobes Arts is based in TX.
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