Arkansas · Private foundation
Mr & Mrs Gus Blass 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.
- $115k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $36,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Mr & Mrs Gus Blass Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 | 34 | $115k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $104k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $75k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $64k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $84k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $56k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $62k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $66k | 57% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Methodist University | $256,900 | 9 | 0% |
| Children's Medical Center Foundation | $79,100 | 9 | 0% |
| The Crystal Charity Ball | $52,750 | 9 | 0% |
| Highland Park Educational Foundation | $19,450 | 9 | 1% |
| Humane Society of Pulaski County | $13,015 | 9 | 0% |
| Salesmanship Club of Dallas | $13,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Natural State Council | $11,650 | 7 | 0% |
| Congregation Bnai Israel | $11,300 | 5 | n/a |
| Senior Citizens of Greater Dallas Inc | $9,425 | 7 | 0% |
| The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($170k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mr & Mrs Gus Blass 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: Kline Family Foundation · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Lisa and Clay Cooley Family Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Susan H & John C Farris Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Vogel Schwartz Foundation Inc · Brown Foundation · Hegi Family Foundation · The Hoglund Foundation · Nabholz Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Mr & Mrs Gus Blass Foundation
- How much does Mr & Mrs Gus Blass Foundation give?
- Mr & Mrs Gus Blass Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $114,780 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mr & Mrs Gus Blass Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Health (27%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Mr & Mrs Gus Blass Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Southern Methodist University ($257k), Children's Medical Center Foundation ($79k), The Crystal Charity Ball ($53k).
- Does Mr & Mrs Gus Blass Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mr & Mrs Gus Blass Foundation 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 Mr & Mrs Gus Blass Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kline Family Foundation, Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, The Dallas Foundation.
- Where is Mr & Mrs Gus Blass Foundation based?
- Mr & Mrs Gus Blass Foundation is based in AR.
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