Kentucky · Private foundation
Access Ventures Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 79%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $18,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $829,298
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $38M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 79% of the organizations Access Ventures Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $696k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 23 | $2.3M | 74% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $1.1M | 79% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $1.2M | 83% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $546k | 83% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $140k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $2.0M | 100% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $104k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $51k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yulbang USA | $829,298 | 1 | n/a |
| mRelief | $650,000 | 2 | 30% |
| Galilee Baptist Church | $623,901 | 1 | n/a |
| The Urban Institute | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New Directions Housing Corporation | $300,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Ace Project Inc | $278,951 | 3 | 55% |
| Henry Street Settlement | $275,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Leadership Experience | $265,000 | 3 | 37% |
| Galilee Community Development Corporation | $227,778 | 4 | n/a |
| The Louisville Urban League Inc | $180,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Access Ventures Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Metro United Way Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · C E and S Foundation Inc · Norton Healthcare Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Access Ventures Inc
- How much does Access Ventures Inc give?
- Access Ventures Inc reported 23 grants totaling $2,252,198 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Access Ventures Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (24%), Human Services (17%), Community Improvement (9%).
- Who are Access Ventures Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Yulbang USA ($829k), mRelief ($650k), Galilee Baptist Church ($624k).
- Does Access Ventures Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 79% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Access Ventures Inc 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 Access Ventures Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, The Gheens Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc.
- Where is Access Ventures Inc based?
- Access Ventures Inc is based in KY.
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