· Public charity
Lexarts Inc
Lexarts promotes quality arts experiences for the benefit of the people in central kentucky through funding, advocacy, technical assistance, communication and planning initiatives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 21 grants below total $507,980 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $662,620 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $154,640 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $196k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $286k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE | $80,260 |
| LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $80,000 |
| LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER | $70,620 |
| CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY | $55,000 |
| CENTRAL KY YOUTH ORCHESTRA | $40,000 |
| THE LEXINGTON THEATRE COMPANY | $30,000 |
| BLUEGRASS YOUTH BALLET | $15,000 |
| KY BALLET THEATER | $15,000 |
| ALLEGRO DANCE PROJECT | $13,720 |
| LEXINGTON ART LEAGUE INC | $12,500 |
| LEXINGTON BALLET COMPANY | $10,000 |
| AFRICAN AMERICAN FORUM INC | $10,000 |
| CASA DE LA CULTURA HISPANA DE LEXINGTON | $10,000 |
| GREENROOM EXCHANGE | $10,000 |
| INSTITUTE 193 | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
21 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CKCENTRAL KENTUCKY YOUTH ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $261k · revenue +57%
- CLCARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING9× · 2017–2025 · $221k · revenue +25%
- LBLEXINGTON BALLET COMPANY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- HMHEADLEY-WHITNEY MUSEUM INCgraduated2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +29%
- AAAFRICAN AMERICAN FORUM INCone grant, 2020 · $8k
- AWATHENS WEST THEATRE COMPANYone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -97%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Kentucky Theatre is a historic building in downtown Lexington, KY, that had fallen into disuse and disrepair. Purchased by the City of Lexington, The Friends of the Kentucky Theatre Inc is a nonprofit tasked with overseeing the…
Supporting and developing arts professionals; and showcasing the arts in the community.
Provide cultural events for the community.
The mission of lafayette ballet theatre is to provide artistic dance education and cultural programs in the community. lafayette ballet theatre encourages and stimulates development of the performing arts through the offering of…
The associations purpose is to give the community an opportunity to participate in theatrical productions and expose the community to cultural events
Advance the arts through education and enabling the public, generally, to enjoy musical,dramatic, operatic, and other forms of entertainment, to as great an extent as possible and at as low a cost as possible. produce and present…
Cultural enrichment through arts programs
RADIOLEX provides multiple media platforms to amplify underrepresented local voices and promote an equitable, inclusive community while nurturing an informed and safe Lexington.
Art appreciation for fergus county and the surrounding area.
Studio Players Inc. is a non-profit community theatre in Lexington KY. Incorporated in 1952 the organizations mission is to provide the greater Lexington KY area with a wide array of live theatre production that will be enjoyed by a wide…
To foster excellence in performing arts
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lyric Theatre & Cultural Arts Center and the most unlike its peers is Allegro Dance Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL KENTUCKY YOUTH ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON ART LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING ↗
- Who funds Ballet Theatre of Lexington Inc ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL MUSIC ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE 193 INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ALLEGRO DANCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN FORUM INC CO JOHN E ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON SINGERS ↗
- Who funds LYRIC THEATRE & CULTURAL ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS YOUTH BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds Casa De La Cultura Hispana De Lexington ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OF LEXINGTONINC ↗
- Who funds HEADLEY-WHITNEY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds GREENROOM EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds ATHENS WEST THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HENRY CLAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Downtown Lexington Partnership ↗
- Who funds VOICES AMPLIFIED INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Opera House Fund Inc · The Jedra Charitable Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Roaring Brook Foundation Inc · Elhapa Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Lexarts Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.