Kentucky · Private foundation
Marksbury Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $981k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2024
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $410,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Marksbury Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $321k 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 | 2 | $571k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $671k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $475k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $199k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $457k | 64% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $460k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $430k | 44% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $190k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lexington Public Library Foundation | $900,000 | 3 | 57% |
| United Way of the Bluegrass Inc | $542,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Lexington Hearing & Speech Center Inc Dba the Hearing & Speech Center Inc | $498,947 | 6 | 5% |
| Map Foundation Inc | $250,000 | 2 | 16% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bluegrass Inc | $250,000 | 3 | 21% |
| Junior Achievement of the Bluegrass Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 8% |
| The Living Arts & Science Center Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Kentucky Entrepreneurship Education Network Inc | $120,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Awesome Center for Entrepreneurship Inc | $105,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Nurse-Family Partnership | $100,068 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lexington Public Library Foundation | $900,000 | 3 | 57% |
| United Way of the Bluegrass Inc | $542,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Lexington Hearing & Speech Center Inc Dba the Hearing & Speech Center Inc | $498,947 | 6 | 5% |
| Map Foundation Inc | $250,000 | 2 | 16% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bluegrass Inc | $250,000 | 3 | 21% |
| Junior Achievement of the Bluegrass Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 8% |
| The Living Arts & Science Center Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Kentucky Entrepreneurship Education Network Inc | $120,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Awesome Center for Entrepreneurship Inc | $105,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Nurse-Family Partnership | $100,068 | 2 | 0% |
| Challenger Learning Center of Kentucky Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Foodchain Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Centre College | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Together Rising | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| God's Pantry Food Bank Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lee Initiative Inc | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Itnbluegrass Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($200k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Marksbury Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 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.
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How this is measured
About Marksbury Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Marksbury Family Foundation Inc give?
- Marksbury Family Foundation Inc reported 3 grants totaling $981,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Marksbury Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (54%), Education (18%), Health (10%).
- Who are Marksbury Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lexington Public Library Foundation ($900k), United Way of the Bluegrass Inc ($542k), Lexington Hearing & Speech Center Inc Dba the Hearing & Speech Center Inc ($499k).
- Does Marksbury Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Marksbury 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 Marksbury Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, American Water Charitable Foundationinc, Keeneland Foundation Inc.
- Where is Marksbury Family Foundation Inc based?
- Marksbury Family Foundation Inc is based in KY.
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