Texas · Private foundation
Mercedes T Bass Charitable Corporation
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.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,051,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Mercedes T Bass Charitable Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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 | 17 | $2.3M | 29% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $3.2M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $3.0M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $2.3M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $2.9M | 21% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $4.8M | 35% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $2.9M | 42% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $2.5M | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association | $9,968,192 | 9 | 17% |
| Music Associates of Aspen Inc | $3,118,800 | 8 | 6% |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $1,518,640 | 9 | 0% |
| The Carnegie Hall Society Inc | $1,125,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $1,030,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Carnegie Hall Corporation | $870,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $326,000 | 8 | 0% |
| American Academy in Rome | $295,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Van Cliburn Foundation Inc | $125,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 68 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mercedes T Bass Charitable Corporation 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: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Sid W Richardson Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Wm & Catherine Bryce Memorial Fund Xxxxx3001 · California Community Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
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About Mercedes T Bass Charitable Corporation
- How much does Mercedes T Bass Charitable Corporation give?
- Mercedes T Bass Charitable Corporation reported 17 grants totaling $2,337,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mercedes T Bass Charitable Corporation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (91%), Social Science (6%), International (1%).
- Who are Mercedes T Bass Charitable Corporation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association ($10.0M), Music Associates of Aspen Inc ($3.1M), The Aspen Institute Inc ($1.5M).
- Does Mercedes T Bass Charitable Corporation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mercedes T Bass Charitable Corporation 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 Mercedes T Bass Charitable Corporation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax, Sid W Richardson Foundation, The Bessemer Giving Fund.
- Where is Mercedes T Bass Charitable Corporation based?
- Mercedes T Bass Charitable Corporation is based in TX.
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