Kentucky · Private foundation
Gardner Foundation Incorporated
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $108k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 82
- Grants FY2025
- 79
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 73 to 79
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Gardner Foundation Incorporated funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 80 | $107k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 79 | $90k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 79 | $96k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 73 | $98k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 73 | $97k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy In | $26,000 | 5 | 0% |
| River Fields Inc | $22,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Kentucky Humane Society - Animal Rescue | $18,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Filson Historical Society Inc | $18,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Mission Wolf | $16,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Kimokeo Foundation | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Isaac W Bernheim Foundation | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Father John Judie Ministries Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Second Stride Inc | $11,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hosparus Inc Hosparus Health | $10,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($112k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gardner Foundation Incorporated 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: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Norton Healthcare Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation
How this is measured
About Gardner Foundation Incorporated
- How much does Gardner Foundation Incorporated give?
- Gardner Foundation Incorporated reported 82 grants totaling $107,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 73 and 79 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Gardner Foundation Incorporated fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Animals (18%), Environment (14%).
- Who are Gardner Foundation Incorporated's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy In ($26k), River Fields Inc ($23k), Kentucky Humane Society - Animal Rescue ($18k).
- Does Gardner Foundation Incorporated fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gardner Foundation Incorporated accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gardner Foundation Incorporated?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc.
- Where is Gardner Foundation Incorporated based?
- Gardner Foundation Incorporated is based in KY.
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