· Private foundation
Arthur K Smith Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k36 grants · $161k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPEN ROAD GLOBAL | $21,000 |
| GLOBAL GOODWORKS | $15,000 |
| OLMSTEAD PARKS CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| LOUISVILLE STORY PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| IN WITH OUT | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| HOME OF THE INNOCENTS | $5,000 |
| KENTUCKY OPERA | $5,000 |
| LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| ST JOHNS CENTER | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE | $5,000 |
| LOUISVILLE BALLET | $5,000 |
| IDEAS XLAB | $5,000 |
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, $239k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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
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 +72% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TLTHE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +97%
- LSLOUISVILLE STORY PROGRAM8× · 2018–2025 · $55k · revenue +35%
- SASPEED ART MUSEUM8× · 2018–2025 · $50k · revenue +224%
Funded once
- EIEPEK INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -9%
- LCLIGHT CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $9k
- LILEE INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -42%
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.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
The louisville academy of music welcomes everyone to join our musical community. lam nurtures lifelong learners, not solely as musicians but also as creative, inspired people. equity in music education is a force to realize potential,…
To support grassroots organizing, leadership development & public education around important public policy. ky coalition seeks to promote active citizen participation in the democratic process.
Endeavor Louisville is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region.…
To attract, create, and host quality sporting events in the louisville area that increase economic vitality, enhance the quality of life, promote healthy lifestyles, and brand louisville as a great place to live, work, and play.
Our mission is to improve the health and quality of life for louisville's current and future generations through a robust, equitable and diverse tree canopy.
Lpm provides independent and courageous news, music and experiences that serve the needs and aspirations of our diverse communities.
Broadens the perspectives of current and emerging leaders through experiential education that inspires them to advance kentucky.
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…
The kentucky college of art and design opens the door to a creative and productive life through an undergraduate education in the contemporary arts.
The mission of CLOUT is to solve serious community problems by bringing together diverse religious congregations predominantly in low-to-middle income communities of Louisville for leadership training and taking unified action.
The corporation exists to provide pro bono (free) mediation and other dispute resolution services to communities in need, and any other charitable purpose allowed under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended.
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 56 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.
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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 · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · The Brooke Brown Barzun Philanthropic Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Owsley Brown II Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Arthur K Smith Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arthur K Smith Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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