Kentucky · Private foundation
Klig Charitable Trust
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.
- $51k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 41
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $933k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Klig Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 31 | $51k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $53k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $36k | 34% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $52k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 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, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| West End School Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc | $35,300 | 4 | 0% |
| Christ Church United Methodist | $33,355 | 4 | n/a |
| Waterfront Botanical Gardens Inc | $19,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Educational Justice Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Impact100 Louisville Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Fhgr Inc | $3,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Whitney Strong Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rotary Fund of Louisville Inc | $2,400 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Klig Charitable Trust 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 Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Klig Charitable Trust
- How much does Klig Charitable Trust give?
- Klig Charitable Trust reported 31 grants totaling $51,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 41 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Klig Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Youth Development (21%), Religion (19%).
- Who are Klig Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: West End School Inc ($45k), Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc ($35k), Christ Church United Methodist ($33k).
- Does Klig Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Klig Charitable Trust 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 Klig Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Gheens Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc.
- Where is Klig Charitable Trust based?
- Klig Charitable Trust is based in KY.
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