How much does Lexarts Inc give?

Lexarts Inc reported 21 itemized grants totaling $507,980, out of $662,620 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Lexarts Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (97%), Education (3%), Civil Rights (0%).

Who are Lexarts Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lexington Philharmonic Society Inc ($1.0M), Lexington Children's Theatre Inc ($867k), The Living Arts & Science Center Inc ($774k).

Does Lexarts Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Lexarts Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc, Opera House Fund Inc.

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Kentucky · 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.

$663k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 21
Itemized grants FY2025: 18
Organizations funded FY2023: 17%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2025: $508k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $80,260
Organizations funded a year: 7 to 18; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $3.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Lexarts Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	21	$508k	24%
FY2023	18	$540k	17%
FY2022	15	$462k	40%
FY2021	7	$345k	0%
FY2020	14	$527k	14%
FY2019	13	$536k	0%
FY2018	13	$539k	8%
FY2017	12	$527k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.9MEducation$110kCivil Rights$8kCommunity Improvement$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Lexington Philharmonic Society Inc	$1,044,000	9	16%
Lexington Children's Theatre Inc	$866,885	9	11%
The Living Arts & Science Center Inc	$773,620	9	16%
Central Kentucky Youth Orchestra Society Inc	$261,000	9	11%
Lexington Art League Inc	$237,500	9	16%
Carnegie Literacy Center Inc Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning	$221,000	9	6%
Ballet Theatre of Lexington Inc	$61,500	8	6%
Lexington Ballet Company Inc	$57,500	8	3%
The Central Music Academy Inc	$56,000	7	4%
Lexington Theatre Company	$55,000	4	1%

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All grantees of Lexarts Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Lexington Philharmonic Society Inc	$1,044,000	9	16%
Lexington Children's Theatre Inc	$866,885	9	11%
The Living Arts & Science Center Inc	$773,620	9	16%
Central Kentucky Youth Orchestra Society Inc	$261,000	9	11%
Lexington Art League Inc	$237,500	9	16%
Carnegie Literacy Center Inc Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning	$221,000	9	6%
Ballet Theatre of Lexington Inc	$61,500	8	6%
Lexington Ballet Company Inc	$57,500	8	3%
The Central Music Academy Inc	$56,000	7	4%
Lexington Theatre Company	$55,000	4	1%
Institute 193 Incorporated	$32,500	4	8%
Allegro Dance Project Inc	$32,220	4	9%
African American Forum Inc Co John E	$31,250	4	17%
Lexington Singers	$29,000	5	5%
Chamber Music Society of Central Kentucky Inc	$28,000	4	n/a
Ky Women Writers Conference	$25,500	4	n/a
Lexington Chamber Chorale Inc	$25,500	5	n/a
Lyric Theatre & Cultural Arts Center	$23,000	3	3%
Bluegrass Youth Ballet Inc	$21,000	2	2%
Casa De La Cultura Hispana De Lexington	$20,000	3	19%
Chamber Music Festival of Lexingtoninc	$17,500	3	12%
Headley-Whitney Museum Inc	$10,000	2	3%
Antagonist Productions	$10,000	1	n/a
Greenroom Exchange	$10,000	1	10%
Athens West Theatre Company	$7,500	1	6%
Henry Clay Memorial Foundation	$7,500	1	1%
Downtown Lexington Partnership	$5,380	1	1%
Voices Amplified Inc	$5,000	1	n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($8k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lexarts Inc supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY39.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Lexarts Inc

How much does Lexarts Inc give?: Lexarts Inc reported 21 itemized grants totaling $507,980, out of $662,620 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Lexarts Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (97%), Education (3%), Civil Rights (0%).
Who are Lexarts Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lexington Philharmonic Society Inc ($1.0M), Lexington Children's Theatre Inc ($867k), The Living Arts & Science Center Inc ($774k).
Does Lexarts Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lexarts Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc, Opera House Fund Inc.
Where is Lexarts Inc based?: Lexarts Inc is based in KY.