Kentucky · Private foundation
The Lewis and Gladys Bass Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $164k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $36,100
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $292k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 52% of the organizations The Lewis and Gladys Bass Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k 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 | 20 | $161k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $217k | 52% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $261k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $338k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $323k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $352k | 39% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $173k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $262k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gilda's Club Kentuckiana Inc | $257,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Family Scholar House Inc | $196,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Louisville Metro Police Foundation Inc | $130,600 | 7 | 2% |
| Temple Adath Israel | $117,999 | 8 | n/a |
| Maryhurst Inc | $85,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kentucky to the World Inc | $75,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Francis Parker School of Louisville Inc St Francis High School Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kosair Charities Committee Inc | $32,000 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Louisville Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Apron Inc | $25,500 | 5 | 2% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($711k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Lewis and Gladys Bass Family Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About The Lewis and Gladys Bass Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Lewis and Gladys Bass Family Charitable Foundation give?
- The Lewis and Gladys Bass Family Charitable Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $163,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Lewis and Gladys Bass Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (19%), Human Services (16%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are The Lewis and Gladys Bass Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Gilda's Club Kentuckiana Inc ($257k), Family Scholar House Inc ($196k), Louisville Metro Police Foundation Inc ($131k).
- Does The Lewis and Gladys Bass Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lewis and Gladys Bass Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lewis and Gladys Bass Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc.
- Where is The Lewis and Gladys Bass Family Charitable Foundation based?
- The Lewis and Gladys Bass Family Charitable Foundation is based in KY.
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