Kentucky · Private foundation
Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable 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.
- $59k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 25
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $33k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $59k | 71% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $35k | 41% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $29k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $39k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $35k | 52% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $36k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Louisville Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Town Branch Park Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Thomas More University Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Way of the Bluegrass Inc | $16,730 | 6 | 0% |
| Worldwide Hearts and Hands Inc | $15,730 | 3 | 4% |
| Lexarts Inc | $8,620 | 6 | 0% |
| Fund for the Arts Inc | $7,440 | 6 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Cincinnati | $5,850 | 1 | 0% |
| William Lawrence and Blanche Hughes Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Lyndon Recreation Association Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($61k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable Foundation Inc 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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Mt Brilliant Family Foundation (Formerly Hgg Family Foundation) · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · The HEP Foundation Business Trust L Edwin Paulson Jr Trustee · The Gheens Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable Foundation Inc
- How much does Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable Foundation Inc give?
- Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable Foundation Inc reported 24 grants totaling $59,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Philanthropy (20%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of Louisville Foundation Inc ($50k), Town Branch Park Inc ($20k), Thomas More University Inc ($20k).
- Does Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable Foundation 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 Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, Baird Foundation Inc, Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc.
- Where is Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable Foundation Inc based?
- Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable Foundation Inc is based in KY.
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