Kentucky · Private foundation
Commercial Bank Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $39k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $204k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Commercial Bank Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $39k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $42k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $41k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $39k | 58% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $39k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $42k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $39k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $36k | 21% |
99% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Education$264kPhilanthropy$50kHuman Services$33kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kPublic Benefit$2kArts & Culture$1kRecreation & Sports$1kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$0
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 Christian University | $131,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Kentucky Bankers Association | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kindred Charities Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($220k), not named here.
About Commercial Bank Foundation
- How much does Commercial Bank Foundation give?
- Commercial Bank Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $39,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Commercial Bank Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (74%), Philanthropy (14%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Commercial Bank Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kentucky Christian University ($132k), Kentucky Bankers Association ($1k), Kindred Charities Inc ($1k).
- Does Commercial Bank Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Commercial Bank Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Commercial Bank Foundation based?
- Commercial Bank Foundation is based in KY.
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