Kentucky · Private foundation
Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $63k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 59%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $241k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 59% of the organizations Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 50 | $60k | 76% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $294k | 59% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $205k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $267k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $5k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $346k | 82% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $108k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $25k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Derby Festival Inc | $250,000 | 2 | 3% |
| The Backside Learning Center Inc | $128,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Direct Relief | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Retired Racehorse Project Ltd | $80,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Kentucky Race Track Chaplaincy Inc | $61,400 | 4 | 4% |
| New Vocations Racehorse Adoption | $40,452 | 6 | 0% |
| Parks Alliance of Louisville Inc | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rerun Inc | $25,150 | 1 | 3% |
| The Kentucky Science Center Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Inc | $21,702 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 78 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($247k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundation 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 Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc
How this is measured
Compare Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundation with peer funders
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About Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundation
- How much does Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundation give?
- Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $62,782 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (26%), Recreation & Sports (25%), Arts & Culture (21%).
- Who are Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kentucky Derby Festival Inc ($250k), The Backside Learning Center Inc ($128k), Direct Relief ($100k).
- Does Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc, Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance.
- Where is Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundation based?
- Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundation is based in KY.
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