· Private foundation
The Lewis and Gladys Bass Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $96k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION | $36,100 |
| FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE | $20,000 |
| DARE TO CARE | $20,000 |
| KENTUCKY TO THE WORLD | $10,000 |
| APRON INC | $10,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $7,500 |
| THE TEMPLE ADATH ISRAEL | $7,000 |
| BLUE & CO FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| GILDA'S CLUB | $5,000 |
| UPLIFT FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| CASA - COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES | $5,000 |
| BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| FAIRNESS CAMPAIGN | $5,000 |
| HEUSER HEARING INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| BOONE COUNTY DEPUTY ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GCGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC8× · 2018–2025 · $257k · revenue +32%
- FSFAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $196k · revenue +282%
- LMLOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2025 · $131k · revenue +172%
Funded once
- UAUOFL ATHLETICS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $45k
- FEFAIRNESS EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +19%
- YDYEW DELL INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -24%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Creating a more inclusive venture capital and entrepreneurial ecosystem.
To acquire, maintain, improve, leverage, manage, lease, and convey real and personal property for the benefit of the university of louisville.
The lafayette general foundation was created to support lafayette general health (lgh), acadiana's only community-owned, nonprofit health system. we exist to help fulfill lgh's mission, to restore, maintain, and improve health. our role is…
Faith in public life's mission is to advance the moral imperative for a just, inclusive and equitable country that allows each of us to live into our full humanity. we do this by building power and cultures of belongings among diverse…
The catholic education foundation is dedicated to the growth and vitality of catholic education in the archdiocese of louisville. the foundation advances its mission primarily through tuition assistance grants to families who cannot afford…
Lpm provides independent and courageous news, music and experiences that serve the needs and aspirations of our diverse communities.
How this is measured
56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 110 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds MARYHURST INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY TO THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL OF LOUISVILLE INC ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds KOSAIR CHARITIES COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds APRON INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRNESS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds YEW DELL INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Boone County Sheriffs Association ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY REFUGEE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE PRIDE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRNESS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds 21ST CENTURY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds Uniting Partners for Women and Children ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lewis and Gladys Bass Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lewis and Gladys Bass Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Friends of the Arthur R Marshall Loxahatchee Ntl Wildlife Refuge Inc: 10% of income from government
How this is measured
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