Kentucky · Private foundation
Ephraim McDowell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $39k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 74%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,400
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 23
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $354k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 74% of the organizations Ephraim McDowell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $39k | 56% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $39k | 74% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $27k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $27k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $27k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $22k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $24k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owensborodaviess County Regional Dental Clinic Inc | $1,150 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 78 recipients with no EIN on record ($203k), not named here.
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About Ephraim McDowell Foundation
- How much does Ephraim McDowell Foundation give?
- Ephraim McDowell Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $38,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Ephraim McDowell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Arts & Culture (1%), Health (1%).
- Who are Ephraim McDowell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Owensborodaviess County Regional Dental Clinic Inc ($1k).
- Does Ephraim McDowell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 74% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ephraim McDowell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Ephraim McDowell Foundation based?
- Ephraim McDowell Foundation is based in KY.
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