How much did FUND FOR THE ARTS INC grant in FY2024?

FUND FOR THE ARTS INC reported 41 grants totaling $4,007,863 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is FUND FOR THE ARTS INC based?

FUND FOR THE ARTS INC is based in KY.

FUND FOR THE ARTS INC

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· Public charity

FUND FOR THE ARTS INC

Vision Statement: We envision a healthy and vibrant community where everyone embraces the art that exists in our lives every day, everyone contributes to the well-being of our arts community, and it is understood that everyone belongs to the arts community.

$4.0M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$1.0M

Largest

01What you fund

0175% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Arts & Culture$19MEnvironment$1.6MEducation$337kHuman Services$244kHealth$138kRecreation & Sports$118kAnimals$99kPhilanthropy$86kReligion$39kOther$7.1M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

scholarships agingeducation teacheryouth trainingtraining scholarshipsartsmatch educationpartnership agingaging education

2020

covid reliefpass tagout kosairprek earlypartnership covidtag outcovid restaurant

2021

partnership teacherrecovery culturalcultural loulou recoveryimpact teacherimpact artsmatchartsmatch partnership

2022

pass sustainingcapital sustainingimagine muralmural festivalimpact learninglearning sustainingkids learning

2023

institutions educationneighborhoods educationscienceinstitutions neighborhoodscarnegiecareproperty

2024

neighborhoods learninginstitutions sustaininginstitutions neighborhoodsinstitutions institutionsneighborhoods culturalinstitutions learningneighborhoods hearts

2025

institutions culturalinstitutions learninglearning neighborhoodsexperiencespeed museummusictheatre

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k11 grants · $70k
$10k–50k18 grants · $474k
$50k–250k7 grants · $749k
$250k+5 grants · $2.5M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

Louisville Metro Parks Community Centers$1,000,700
The Louisville Orchestra$514,480
Actors Theatre of Louisville$425,323
Jefferson County Public Schools$272,888
Louisville Ballet$272,406
Kentucky Opera$147,184
Kentucky Shakespeare$129,132
KMAC Museum$118,061
StageOne Family Theatre$102,471
Louisville Visual Art$100,782
Speed Art Museum$94,740
IDEAS xLab$56,639
Portland Museum$44,872
Louisville Academy of Music$40,226
Academy of Music Production$39,384

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $244k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$28M · 74 repeat orgs$869k to everyone else

74 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$28M

$833k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+48%

Still filing today

78%

51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

TL
The Louisville Orchestra
7× · 2018–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +28%
LB
Louisville Ballet
7× · 2018–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +78%
PA
Parks Alliance of Louisville
5× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +1323% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

KO
Kentucky Opera
one grant, 2018 · $69k · revenue -31%
UI
USPIRITUS INC
one grant, 2023 · $43k · revenue -48%
EA
ELEVATOR Artist Resource
one grant, 2018 · $40k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Kentucky Humanities Council Inc

The kentucky humanities council is dedicated to telling kentucky's story through programs and services that create a legacy of pride in the wealth of kentucky's culture, building civic engagement, and supporting local humanities programs…

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University of Louisville Athletic Association

The University of Louisville Athletic Association is organized to develop intercollegiate athletic teams composed of students of the University of Louisville and to schedule and manage intercollegiate athletic contests, all in the harmony…

Recreation & Sports

Louisville Tko Inc

Youth Development

University of Louisville Real Estate

To acquire, maintain, improve, leverage, manage, lease, and convey property (see schedule o) for the benefit of the university of louisville.

Philanthropy

Know Theatre of Cincinnati

Know Theatre is a small professional theatre showcasing voices, new works, & plays that embrace the inherent theatricality of the live experience. Know Theatre seeks to be a place where artists and audiences feel welcome to take artistic…

Arts & Culture

Louisville Collegiate School

To operate a jk-12, co-educational independent school.

Education

Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts

With funding, services, and advocacy, ArtsWave fuels a more vibrant economy and connected community through the arts.

Arts & Culture

The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc

To enrich, expand, and excel in the art of dance through world-class performance, a high-caliber academy, and impactful education and engagement from local to global communities.

Arts & Culture

The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati

The mission of The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati (TCT) is to educate, entertain and engage audiences of all ages through professional theatrical productions and arts education programming. Our vision is to awaken a lifelong love of…

Arts & Culture

Louisville Preservation Fund Inc

The louisville preservation fund,inc. revitalizes historic places through direct real estate action and partnerships to enhance community and promote economic development.

Community Improvement

The Louisville Community Foundation

Community foundation for the benefit of the citizens of the 44641 zip code and the citizens beynond as a secondary mission

Philanthropy

Cincinnati Opera Association Inc

To enrich and connect the community through diverse opera experiences.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Louisville Orchestra Inc and the most unlike its peers is Owsley Brown Frazier Historical Arms. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%2/138

the rest of the field

12%

726/6,114

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

97 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

91/97

Grantees still filing

71/97

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$18,571,016Other$7,371,578Environment$1,639,138Education$336,676Human Services$244,233Health$137,700Recreation & Sports$118,300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundation OfKY115.5× affinity67 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Of · The Community Foundation of Louisville · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Metro United Way Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · The Norton Foundation Inc · Brown-Forman Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation FUND FOR THE ARTS INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: West Louisville Performing Arts Academy.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 611181511 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on West Louisville Performing Arts Academy, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 65% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Fund for the Arts Inc?

Find your warmest path to Fund for the Arts Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

FUND FOR THE ARTS INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

97 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Fund for the Arts Inc?

More from the funding graph

FUND FOR THE ARTS INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

97 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Fund for the Arts Inc?

More from the funding graph