Kentucky · Private foundation
Kindred 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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2022
- 50
- Grants FY2022
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2022
Read this first · the figures below need context
57% of Kindred Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Of Middle Tennessee Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 17 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Kindred Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 40 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2022
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 114
- FY2020 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 16
- Total assets, FY2022
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 47% of the organizations Kindred Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 49 | $1.0M | 47% |
| FY2021 | 114 | $2.9M | 89% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $432k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Louisville Foundation Inc | $952,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Kindred Employee Assistance Fund Inc | $826,005 | 6 | 100% |
| The Louisville Urban League Inc | $811,655 | 4 | 2% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $747,369 | 6 | 0% |
| Institute for Critical Care Foundation | $350,000 | 1 | 27% |
| Louisville Healthcare Ceo Council Inc | $210,836 | 1 | 13% |
| The Louisville Orchestra Inc | $115,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Catholic Education Foundation Inc | $114,673 | 3 | 1% |
| Lincoln Heritage Council of Boy Scouts of America Inc | $85,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Jefferson Community Technical College Foundation Inc | $55,000 | 2 | 8% |
Show all 133 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($555k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Kindred Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 107 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.
Open a dossier: Republic Bank Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Brown-Forman Foundation · Norton Healthcare Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Kindred Foundation Inc
- How much does Kindred Foundation Inc give?
- Kindred Foundation Inc reported 50 grants totaling $1,161,774 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 114 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
- What does Kindred Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Health (25%), Philanthropy (15%).
- Who are Kindred Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of Louisville Foundation Inc ($952k), Kindred Employee Assistance Fund Inc ($826k), The Louisville Urban League Inc ($812k).
- Does Kindred Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kindred 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 Kindred Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Republic Bank Foundation Inc, The Gheens Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc.
- Where is Kindred Foundation Inc based?
- Kindred Foundation Inc is based in KY.
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