Kentucky · Private foundation
Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $280k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,468
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $26,080
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 29
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 83% of the organizations Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 87% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 24 | $280k | 83% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $251k | 83% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $276k | 84% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $160k | 86% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $169k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $128k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Youth Advocates Inc | $87,099 | 2 | 1% |
| Hotel Inc | $53,000 | 2 | 3% |
| The Prisoners Hope Inc | $46,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Hindman Settlement School Inc | $29,050 | 2 | 1% |
| Gods Appalachian Partnership Inc | $29,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Covington Ladies Home Inc | $28,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Gateway Juvenile Diversion Project Inc | $26,080 | 1 | 1% |
| Jefferson Street Baptist Center Inc | $25,658 | 1 | 3% |
| the Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| For a Real Change Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 74 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($240k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation 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: Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The King's Daughters and Sons Foundation of Kentucky Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Metro United Way Inc
How this is measured
Compare Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation with peer funders
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About Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation
- How much does Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation give?
- Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $279,689 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (18%), Crime & Legal (14%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
- Who are Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kentucky Youth Advocates Inc ($87k), Hotel Inc ($53k), The Prisoners Hope Inc ($46k).
- Does Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc, Cralle Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc.
- Where is Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation based?
- Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation is based in KY.
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