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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 FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $507,980, the rows itemized in this filing. The $662,620 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $154,640 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $196k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $286k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CASA DE LA CULTURA HISPANA DE LEXINGTON$10,000
GREENROOM EXCHANGE$10,000
CENTRAL MUSIC ACADEMY$10,000
AFRICAN AMERICAN FORUM INC$10,000
LEXINGTON BALLET COMPANY$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%KY BALLET THEATER: $15k → 15%KY BALLET THEATER: $15k → 15%THE LEXINGTON THEATRE COMPANY: $30k → 15%BLUEGRASS YOUTH BALLET: $15k → 15%LYRIC THEATRE: $15k → 15%LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $170k → 15%LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $170k → 15%Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra: $170k → 15%LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $164k → 15%LEXINGTON CHILDRENS THEATRE: $125k → 15%LEXINGTON CHILDRENS THEATRE: $125k → 15%LEXINGTON CHILDRENS THEATRE: $125k → 15%LEXINGTON CHILDRENS THEATRE: $122k → 15%Living Arts & Science Center: $108k → 15%LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER: $108k → 15%LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER: $108k → 15%LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER: $104k → 15%LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER: $100k → 15%LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $100k → 15%LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $100k → 15%LEXINGTON CHILDRENS THEATRE: $100k → 15%LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $100k → 15%LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER: $90k → 15%LEXINGTON CHILDRENS THEATRE: $90k → 15%LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $90k → 15%LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER: $85k → 15%LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $80k → 15%LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $80k → 15%LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER: $71k → 15%CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY: $55k → 15%CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY: $55k → 15%Lexington Art League: $50k → 15%LEXINGTON ART LEAGUE: $50k → 15%LEXINGTON ART LEAGUE: $45k → 15%LEXINGTON ART LEAGUE: $45k → 15%CENTRAL KY YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $40k → 15%CENTRAL KY YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $40k → 15%CENTRAL KENTUCKY YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $35k → 15%CARNEGIE CENTER: $35k → 15%CENTRAL KENTUCKY YOUTH ORCHESTRAS: $30k → 15%CENTRAL KENTUCKY YOUTH ORCHESTRAS: $30k → 15%CENTRAL KENTUCKY YOUTH ORCHESTRAS: $30k → 15%CENTRAL KENTUCKY YOUTH ORCHESTRAS: $30k → 15%CARNEGIE CENTER: $30k → 15%Central Kentucky Youth Orchestras: $26k → 15%LEXINGTON BALLET COMPANY: $15k → 15%LEXINGTON ART LEAGUE INC: $15k → 15%INSTITUE 193: $15k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 21 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
3

Total granted

$3.9M
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+29%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
Arts & CultureEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CK
    CENTRAL KENTUCKY YOUTH ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $261k · revenue +57%
  • CL
    CARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING
    9× · 2017–2025 · $221k · revenue +25%
  • LB
    LEXINGTON BALLET COMPANY INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • HM
    HEADLEY-WHITNEY MUSEUM INCgraduated
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +29%
  • AA
    AFRICAN AMERICAN FORUM INC
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • AW
    ATHENS WEST THEATRE COMPANY
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -97%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Friends of Kentucky Theatre

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…

Philanthropy
2
Innovation Arts Academy Inc

Supporting and developing arts professionals; and showcasing the arts in the community.

Arts & Culture
3
Kentucky Classic Arts At Centre Square Inc

Provide cultural events for the community.

Arts & Culture
4
Sumter County Fine Arts Council

Cultural enrichment through arts programs

Arts & Culture
5
Lafayette Ballet Theatre

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…

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6
Greenville Theatre Arts Center
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7
Lewistown Art Center

Art appreciation for fergus county and the surrounding area.

Arts & Culture
8
Louisville Theatrical Association Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Studio Players Inc

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…

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10
Lexington County Arts Association

The associations purpose is to give the community an opportunity to participate in theatrical productions and expose the community to cultural events

Arts & Culture
11
Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre
Arts & Culture
12
Friends of Lexington Music Art and Drama Students

To foster excellence in performing arts

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lyric Theatre & Cultural Arts Center; 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.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
15/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC: $1,044,000 · Arts & CultureLEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INCLEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $866,885 · Arts & CultureLEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE INCTHE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC: $773,620 · Arts & CultureTHE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INCLEXINGTON ART LEAGUE INC: $237,500 · Arts & CultureLEXINGTON ART LEAGUE INC+13 more: $374,970 · Arts & Culture+13 moreCENTRAL KENTUCKY YOUTH ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $261,000 · OtherCENTRAL KENTU…LEXINGTON BALLET COMPANY INC: $57,500 · OtherLEXINGTON BAL…LEXINGTON SINGERS: $29,000 · OtherLEXINGTON SIN…CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY INC: $28,000 · OtherCHAMBER MUSIC…KY WOMEN WRITERS CONFERENCE: $25,500 · OtherKY WOMEN WRIT…LEXINGTON CHAMBER CHORALE INC: $25,500 · OtherLEXINGTON CHA…+5 more: $38,380 · Other+5 moreCARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING: $221,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$3,296,975Other$464,880Education$221,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC: $1,044,000 over 9y, 16% of budgetLEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $866,885 over 9y, 11% of budgetTHE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC: $773,620 over 9y, 16% of budgetCENTRAL KENTUCKY YOUTH ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $261,000 over 9y, 11% of budgetLEXINGTON ART LEAGUE INC: $237,500 over 9y, 16% of budgetCARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING: $221,000 over 9y, 5.5% of budgetBallet Theatre of Lexington Inc: $61,500 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetLEXINGTON BALLET COMPANY INC: $57,500 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetTHE CENTRAL MUSIC ACADEMY INC: $56,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetLEXINGTON THEATRE COMPANY: $55,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetINSTITUTE 193 INCORPORATED: $32,500 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetALLEGRO DANCE PROJECT INC: $32,220 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN FORUM INC CO JOHN E: $31,250 over 4y, 17% of budgetLEXINGTON SINGERS: $29,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetLYRIC THEATRE & CULTURAL ARTS CENTER: $23,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetBLUEGRASS YOUTH BALLET INC: $21,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCasa De La Cultura Hispana De Lexington: $20,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OF LEXINGTONINC: $17,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetHEADLEY-WHITNEY MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetGREENROOM EXCHANGE: $10,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetATHENS WEST THEATRE COMPANY: $7,500 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetHENRY CLAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDowntown Lexington Partnership: $5,380 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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 …Honorable Order of Ke…Opera House Fund IncThe Jedra Charitable …LG&E and Ku Foundatio…The Community Foundat…Roaring Brook Foundat…Elhapa Foundation IncNatl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lexarts Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lexarts Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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