Edward Perry "Ed" Bass was born on September 10,1945 and is an American businessman, financier, philanthropist and environmentalist who lives in Fort Worth, Texas.
17 Facts About Ed Bass
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Ed Bass is the chairman of Fine Line, an investment and venture-capital management firm in Fort Worth, and chairman of the board of directors of the Sid W Richardson Foundation, a philanthropic organization.
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Ed Bass's father, Perry, was an adviser and later partner of his own bachelor uncle, Sid W Richardson, starting in the 1930s.
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Ed Bass attended Phillips Academy, and graduated from Yale in 1967 with a bachelor's degree in administrative science.
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Ed Bass served for a short time in the United States Coast Guard and returned to Yale, studying for a master's degree in architecture, which he did not complete.
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Ed Bass moved to New Mexico and spent some time with "an unusual counterculture group at Synergia Ranch", run by John P Allen.
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Ed Bass later spent money on a hotel in Nepal, a 300,000-acre Australian ranch, a Puerto Rican rainforest, and the now-defunct Caravan of Dreams performing arts center in Fort Worth.
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Ed Bass attempted to make Steve Bannon the interim chief executive officer.
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The existing management refused Bannon admittance to the property, according to an affidavit Ed Bass later submitted to a Fort Worth court, where he filed his dissolution suit.
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In 2007, Ed Bass sold some of the land adjacent to the project, and the building was leased to the University of Arizona.
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Ed Bass has funded numerous projects focused on environmental conservation, and has stated that he feels conservation "most effective when approached as an enterprise".
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Ed Bass has supported and worked with the World Wildlife Fund, the New York Botanical Garden, the Jane Goodall Institute, and the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation.
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Ed Bass is currently the vice chairman of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas and is the founder of the ecological nonprofit Philecology Trust, which he created in 1986.
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Ed Bass additionally owns tens of thousands of acres of land in Kansas Flint Hills, and has been active in maintaining that the majority of the land is for conservation purposes and intends on donating much of it to the Nature Conservancy.
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Ed Bass is a long-time supporter of downtown redevelopment, and has been described as a "leader in what is recognized as one of the most successful urban revitalization efforts in America".
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Ed Bass led the development of Bass Performance Hall, financed without public funding, which opened in 1998.
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Ed Bass no longer serves on the board of Yale and is an emeritus trustee.