Kentucky · Public charity
Louisville Water Foundation
The Louisville Water Foundation's mission is to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve and around the world by providing water assistance and water education. The Foundation will provide assistance for water education efforts and will support programs with a mission of providing safe drinking water in other…
- $459k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 11
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Louisville Water Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $455k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $537k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $660k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $788k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $354k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $402k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $395k | 25% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $423k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Association of Community Ministries Inc | $2,800,000 | 8 | 32% |
| The Salvation Army | $155,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Multi-Purpose Community Action Agency Inc | $154,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Fund for the Arts Inc | $145,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Waterstep Inc | $104,771 | 4 | 4% |
| Young Authors Greenhouse Inc | $85,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Teach Kentucky Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 7% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $47,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Water By Women | $45,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Isaac W Bernheim Foundation | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Louisville Water Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · Brown-Forman Foundation · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Louisville Water Foundation
- How much does Louisville Water Foundation give?
- Louisville Water Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $459,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Louisville Water Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (70%), Environment (16%), Human Services (5%).
- Who are Louisville Water Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Association of Community Ministries Inc ($2.8M), The Salvation Army ($155k), Multi-Purpose Community Action Agency Inc ($154k).
- Does Louisville Water Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Louisville Water Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc, The Gheens Foundation Inc.
- Where is Louisville Water Foundation based?
- Louisville Water Foundation is based in KY.
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