Kentucky · Private foundation
Great Meadows 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.
- $280k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 66
- Grants FY2025
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 65%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,400
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 65
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 65% of the organizations Great Meadows Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k 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 | 61 | $280k | 57% |
| FY2024 | 57 | $529k | 65% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $352k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 60 | $499k | 72% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $141k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 65 | $246k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speed Art Museum | $322,561 | 2 | 2% |
| Ruckus Inc | $70,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Undermain Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 62% |
| Residency Unlimited Inc | $37,875 | 2 | 4% |
| Kentucky Public Radio Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Josephine Sculpture Park Inc | $10,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Appalshop Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Isaac W Bernheim Foundation | $7,700 | 3 | 0% |
| The Filson Historical Society Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Portland Museum Inc | $7,300 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speed Art Museum | $322,561 | 2 | 2% |
| Ruckus Inc | $70,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Undermain Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 62% |
| Residency Unlimited Inc | $37,875 | 2 | 4% |
| Kentucky Public Radio Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Josephine Sculpture Park Inc | $10,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Appalshop Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Isaac W Bernheim Foundation | $7,700 | 3 | 0% |
| The Filson Historical Society Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Portland Museum Inc | $7,300 | 3 | 0% |
| Queer Kentucky Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Art Center of the Bluegrass Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Institute 193 Incorporated | $3,000 | 1 | 2% |
| 2nd Story Inc | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Louisville Visual Art Inc | $750 | 1 | 0% |
| Kmac Museum | $250 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 208 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Great Meadows Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Great Meadows Foundation Inc
- How much does Great Meadows Foundation Inc give?
- Great Meadows Foundation Inc reported 66 grants totaling $280,044 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 65 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Great Meadows Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (96%), Environment (0%).
- Who are Great Meadows Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Speed Art Museum ($323k), Ruckus Inc ($70k), Undermain Inc ($55k).
- Does Great Meadows Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Great Meadows 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 Great Meadows Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Snowy Owl Foundation Inc, Fund for the Arts Inc, Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc.
- Where is Great Meadows Foundation Inc based?
- Great Meadows Foundation Inc is based in KY.
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