Kentucky · Private foundation
Independence Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $143k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 91%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $714
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $752
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 58
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $406k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 91% of the organizations Independence Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k 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 | 3 | $2k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $203k | 91% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $31k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $700k | 97% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $5k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $15k | 80% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $30k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Kentucky University | $35,565 | 2 | n/a |
| Mayfield Graves County Art Guild Inc | $32,605 | 1 | n/a |
| Idols Aside Ministries Inc | $22,123 | 1 | 3% |
| Help Office of Owensboro Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 5% |
| The Learning Center of Madisonville Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Soky Patriots | $15,150 | 1 | 6% |
| Fulton County FFA Alumni Inc | $8,058 | 1 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $5,125 | 1 | 0% |
| Casa of Graves County & Southwest Ky Inc | $5,050 | 1 | n/a |
| Brescia University Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 79 recipients with no EIN on record ($777k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Independence Foundation Inc 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 · Owensboro Health Inc · Charles Eades Scholarship Trust Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · John B & Brownie Young Memorial Fund · United Way of the Ohio Valley Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Litchfield Memorial Student Loan Fund Inc · Naphcare Charitable Foundation Inc · B J Killian Foundation · The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · Peoples Bank Foundation
How this is measured
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About Independence Foundation Inc
- How much does Independence Foundation Inc give?
- Independence Foundation Inc reported 3 itemized grants totaling $2,174, out of $142,866 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 58 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Independence Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (7%), Education (3%), Human Services (2%).
- Who are Independence Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Western Kentucky University ($36k), Mayfield Graves County Art Guild Inc ($33k), Idols Aside Ministries Inc ($22k).
- Does Independence Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 91% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Independence Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Independence Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, Owensboro Health Inc, Charles Eades Scholarship Trust Xxx-Xx-Xxxx.
- Where is Independence Foundation Inc based?
- Independence Foundation Inc is based in KY.
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