Kentucky · Private foundation
Keeneland Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $346k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2026
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $72,064
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 3
- Total assets, FY2026
- $359k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 47% of the organizations Keeneland Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 32 | $341k | 44% |
| FY2025 | 15 | $145k | 47% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $186k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $176k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $164k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $256k | 59% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $110k | 71% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $275k | 77% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lexarts Inc | $180,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Ed Brown Society Inc | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lexington Public Library Foundation | $100,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Stable Recovery Inc | $97,064 | 2 | 1% |
| Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 1% |
| United Way of the Bluegrass Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Keeneland Library and Museum Foundation Inc | $52,294 | 1 | n/a |
| Lexington Hearing & Speech Center Inc Dba the Hearing & Speech Center Inc | $44,251 | 9 | 0% |
| Dv8 Kitchen Vocational Training Foundati on Inc | $33,700 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($534k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Keeneland 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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · The King's Daughters and Sons Foundation of Kentucky Inc · Roaring Brook Foundation Inc · United Way of the Bluegrass Inc · Christian Word Ministries Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Hilary Boone Foundation Inc · Elhapa Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Keeneland Foundation Inc
- How much does Keeneland Foundation Inc give?
- Keeneland Foundation Inc reported 33 grants totaling $346,170 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2025.
- What does Keeneland Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (18%), Recreation & Sports (18%), Health (15%).
- Who are Keeneland Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Lexarts Inc ($180k), Ed Brown Society Inc ($100k), Lexington Public Library Foundation ($100k).
- Does Keeneland Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Keeneland Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Keeneland Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc, LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc.
- Where is Keeneland Foundation Inc based?
- Keeneland Foundation Inc is based in KY.
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