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Limestone Family 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
76
Grants FY2025
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$350,000
States reached, FY2025
15
Total assets, FY2025
$11M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MT
WI
NY
WY
IN
OH
NJ
KY
VA
MD
DC
MS
GA
FL

Top grantees

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

Show all 54 grantees
All grantees of Limestone Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc$350,000119%
Big Horn Baseball Club$150,000112%
Kentucky Horse Park Foundation Inc$75,00014%
Association of Community Ministries Inc$58,0001n/a
Equestrian Events Inc$50,00011%
Feed Louisville Inc$33,0001n/a
American Farmland Trust$25,0001n/a
Bluegrass Land Conservancy Inc$25,00010%
Gulf Stream School Inc$20,00010%
Kentucky Country Day School Inc$20,00010%
Metro United Way Inc$20,00010%
The Louisville Orchestra Inc$10,00010%
University of Louisville Foundation Inc$10,00010%
West End School Inc$10,00010%
Second Stride Inc$10,00011%
Tall Timbers Research Inc$5,00010%
Muhammad Ali Museum and Education Center$5,0001n/a
Wyo Theatre Inc$5,00010%
Louisville Folk School$5,00011%
Living Church Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a
Pendennis Historical Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a
Kentucky Derby Museum Corporation$5,00010%
Land Trust Alliance Inc$5,0001n/a
Oldham County Historical Society Inc$5,00011%
Sayre School$5,00010%
Waterfront Botanical Gardens Inc$5,0001n/a
Louisville Zoo Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Owsley Brown Frazier Historical Arms Museum Foundation Inc$5,00010%
The League of Kentucky Sportsmen I$2,50012%
Isaac W Bernheim Foundation$2,50010%
The Kentucky Science Center Inc$2,50010%
Kentucky Waterways Alliance Inc$2,5001n/a
Historic Homes Foundation$2,50010%
A Cure for Robert Inc$2,5001n/a
Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy In$2,5001n/a
Lexington School Inc$2,00010%
Trout Unlimited$2,0001n/a
Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc$1,00010%
River Fields Inc$1,0001n/a
Yew Dell Inc$1,0001n/a
Secretariat Center Inc$1,00010%
Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc$1,0001n/a
Wyoming Wildlife Federation$1,0001n/a
Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance$1,00010%
Florida Fishing Academy Inc$1,00010%
Old Friends Inc$1,00010%
New Vocations Racehorse Adoption$1,0001n/a
Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Inc$1,00010%
The Kentucky State Police Foundation Inc$1,00011%
Retired Racehorse Project Ltd$1,0001n/a
Central Kentucky Riding for Hope Inc$1,00010%
Historic Locust Grove Inc$1,0001n/a
United States Equestrian Team Foundation Inc$5001n/a
Creasey Mahan Nature Preserve Inc$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($108k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Limestone Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc: $350,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetBig Horn Baseball Club: $150,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetKentucky Horse Park Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetEquestrian Events Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBluegrass Land Conservancy Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGulf Stream School Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKentucky Country Day School Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMetro United Way Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Louisville Orchestra Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Louisville Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest End School Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSecond Stride Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTall Timbers Research Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWyo Theatre Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLouisville Folk School: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetKentucky Derby Museum Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOldham County Historical Society Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSayre School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLouisville Zoo Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOwsley Brown Frazier Historical Arms Museum Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe League of Kentucky Sportsmen I: $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetIsaac W Bernheim Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kentucky Science Center Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Homes Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLexington School Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSecretariat Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Fishing Academy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOld Friends Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThoroughbred Retirement Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kentucky State Police Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCentral Kentucky Riding for Hope Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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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 33.

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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.

W L Lyons Brown FoundationKY80.2× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: W L Lyons Brown Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Ina B Bond Ashbourne Charitable Fund Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation Incorporated · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable 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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How do I get to Limestone Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Limestone Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Limestone Family Foundation Inc

How much does Limestone Family Foundation Inc give?
Limestone Family Foundation Inc reported 76 grants totaling $1,132,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Limestone Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2025 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (31%), Recreation & Sports (26%), Environment (9%).
Who are Limestone Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2025 to FY2025: The Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc ($350k), Big Horn Baseball Club ($150k), Kentucky Horse Park Foundation Inc ($75k).
Does Limestone Family 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 Limestone Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include W L Lyons Brown Foundation, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc.
Where is Limestone Family Foundation Inc based?
Limestone Family Foundation Inc is based in KY.

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 76 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-PF 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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