GrantmakersKentucky

Kentucky Grantmaking Charities Making Grants of $5,000 - $25,000

These 51 organizations are based in Kentucky and reported a median grant between $5,000 and $25,000 on their most recent Form 990 Schedule I filing. A typical grant is not a promise about any single gift -- some of an organization's grants are smaller than its median, some are larger -- but it is a reasonable signal for whether an application here fits the size of your ask.

51organizations in this range
$1.6Bgranted between them
6,495funding relationships mapped

A median grant in this range covers a meaningful program cost without asking for the multi-year commitment a capital campaign needs. A lot of general-operating and single-program requests land in this range.

Ordered by number of organizations funded, not by dollars -- the same convention as every list on this site. Funding more organizations means more turnover in who gets a grant each year, which is a reasonable proxy for how often a list like this one changes -- it is not a signal that any specific organization is open to a new, unsolicited applicant.

OrganizationBased inMedian grantOrganizationsTotal granted
The Community Foundation ofLouisville$21,500974$237.1M
The Community Foundation of LouisvilleLouisville$15,000667$66.7M
Blue Grass Community Foundation IncLexington$15,976599$67.6M
Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels IncLouisville$9,395583$15.2M
The Community Foundation of LouisvilleLouisville$15,500329$35.0M
Kentucky Fried Chicken Foundation IncLouisville$10,000256$2.6M
Lee Initiative IncLouisville$15,000254$5.8M
Metro United Way IncLouisville$20,550251$27.5M
The Whas Crusade for Children IncLouisville$16,000245$21.8M
Horizon Community Funds of NorthernCovington$22,000212$26.7M
St Elizabeth Medical Center IncEdgewood$15,945168$33.8M
Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky IncHazard$10,239140$14.0M
Norton Healthcare IncLouisville$13,000126$115.1M
Federation of Appalachian HousingBerea$14,522118$18.7M
Fund for the Arts IncLouisville$17,500103$16.0M
Berea CollegeBerea$17,00080$4.4M
Ipa FoundationLouisville$15,00076$2.5M
United Way of the Bluegrass IncLexington$16,20074$4.6M
Baptist Healthcare System IncLouisville$15,53574$684.4M
Owensboro Health IncOwensboro$18,69468$7.1M
Central Kentucky CommunityElizabethtown$12,24268$3.5M
Community Foundation of SouthBowling Green$22,42559$5.1M
Thoroughbred Charities of America IncLexington$10,30058$3.2M
Shirley's Way IncLouisville$15,50058$1.9M
Kentucky Humanities Council IncLexington$19,87749$965K
Foundation for the Tri-StateAshland$10,00048$2.2M
United Way of Southern Kentucky IncBowling Green$24,73447$8.5M
The Kentucky Bar Foundation IncFrankfort$10,00045$5.5M
United Way of the Ohio Valley IncOwensboro$20,50041$2.7M
Felix E Martin JR Foundation IncLouisville$15,50040$8.3M
U of L Health - Louisville IncLouisville$11,75038$12.0M
National Association for CommunityLouisville$8,50037$606K
Dare to Care IncLouisville$18,81036$42.2M
Kentucky Christian Foundation IncLexington$15,00036$3.0M
Delta Dental of Kentucky IncLouisville$13,00033$13.9M
Child Neurology Education and Research FoundationLexington$13,00031$1.3M
Ronald Mcdonald House CharitiesPaducah$10,79731$1.3M
Kentucky Civic Engagement Table IncLouisville$15,50031$1.2M
United States Equestrian Federation IncLexington$10,00030$605K
Ohio Valley United Charities IncCarrollton$8,50029$761K
Appalachian Regional HealthcareLexington$15,00027$790K
Ashland Hospital CorporationAshland$11,68727$1.5M
St Claire Medical Center IncMorehead$10,00026$31.2M
Park Community Credit Union FoundationLouisville$10,70225$1.7M
Civitan Club of Owensboro KentuckyOwensboro$8,25022$613K
National Association of StateLexington$20,00022$1.6M
United Way of Northeast KentuckyAshland$11,00022$979K
Society of St Vincent De PaulErlanger$13,36421$678K
The Lexington Cancer Foundation IncLexington$10,50021$1.4M
Kentucky Society for Technology in EducationWaco$8,85820$246K
Lexarts IncLexington$13,75020$1.9M
Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Every median grant on this page describes the grants reported, not all of them, so the real typical grant is likely lower than shown. This is also why these figures cannot be compared to the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site.

Foundations report their grants differently, so their median grants are not directly comparable to the ones on this page -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so a private foundation's median reflects every grant it made, while the Schedule I figures on this page do not. See foundations in the same range anyway.

New Kentucky organizations, as they file

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