Kentucky · Private foundation
Capricorn Foundation Charitable Tru
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $70k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2024
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $8,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 33
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Capricorn Foundation Charitable Tru funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 31 | $68k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $71k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $60k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $68k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $59k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $64k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $74k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 33 | $137k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metro United Way Inc | $57,863 | 4 | 0% |
| Fund for the Arts Inc | $32,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Waterfront Botanical Gardens Inc | $26,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Speed Art Museum | $20,000 | 8 | 0% |
| New Directions Housing Corporation | $19,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Dare to Care Inc | $18,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Treeslouisville Inc | $14,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Payne Hollow on the Ohio | $14,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Hildegard House Incorporated | $9,800 | 8 | 0% |
| 21st Century Parks Inc | $9,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($318k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Capricorn Foundation Charitable Tru supplied at peak.
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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 Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · The Gheens Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Klig Charitable Trust · Nicklies Foundation Inc · C E and S Foundation Inc · Horseshoe Foundation of Floyd County Inc
How this is measured
Compare Capricorn Foundation Charitable Tru with peer funders
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About Capricorn Foundation Charitable Tru
- How much does Capricorn Foundation Charitable Tru give?
- Capricorn Foundation Charitable Tru reported 32 grants totaling $69,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Capricorn Foundation Charitable Tru fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (19%), Health (15%), Environment (13%).
- Who are Capricorn Foundation Charitable Tru's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Metro United Way Inc ($58k), Fund for the Arts Inc ($32k), Waterfront Botanical Gardens Inc ($26k).
- Does Capricorn Foundation Charitable Tru fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Capricorn Foundation Charitable Tru accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Capricorn Foundation Charitable Tru?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, V V Cooke Foundation Corporation.
- Where is Capricorn Foundation Charitable Tru based?
- Capricorn Foundation Charitable Tru is based in KY.
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