Kentucky · Private foundation
Frank W Sower Community Trust
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.
- $696k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 9
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $126k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Frank W Sower Community Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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 | 12 | $696k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $127k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $30k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $177k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $75k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $68k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corpus Christi Inc | $280,000 | 4 | 21% |
| Society of St Vincent de Paul Council of Louisville Inc | $51,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Simon House Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United Way of the Bluegrass Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($810k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Frank W Sower Community Trust
- How much does Frank W Sower Community Trust give?
- Frank W Sower Community Trust reported 12 grants totaling $696,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Frank W Sower Community Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Religion (11%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
- Who are Frank W Sower Community Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Corpus Christi Inc ($280k), Society of St Vincent de Paul Council of Louisville Inc ($51k), Simon House Inc ($30k).
- Does Frank W Sower Community Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Frank W Sower Community Trust 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 Frank W Sower Community Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Frank W Sower Community Trust based?
- Frank W Sower Community Trust is based in KY.
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