Kentucky · Private foundation
Middleground Capital Charitable Foundation
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.
- $342k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 95%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,560
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 44
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $45k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 95% of the organizations Middleground Capital Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $342k | 56% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $493k | 95% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $14k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Harlow Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 21% |
| The Backside Learning Center Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Lexington Center Corporation | $50,015 | 1 | 0% |
| Mareworthy Charities Inc | $45,000 | 1 | 29% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Lexington Kentucky | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Retired Racehorse Project Ltd | $32,500 | 1 | 4% |
| After the Races Inc | $32,500 | 1 | 4% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $27,576 | 2 | 0% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bluegrass Inc | $27,100 | 3 | 2% |
| Junior Achievement of the Bluegrass Inc | $23,280 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($238k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Middleground Capital Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundation · Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc · Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Limestone Family Foundation Inc · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Middleground Capital Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Middleground Capital Charitable Foundation
- How much does Middleground Capital Charitable Foundation give?
- Middleground Capital Charitable Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $342,220 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 44 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does Middleground Capital Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Animals (20%), Philanthropy (17%).
- Who are Middleground Capital Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Jack Harlow Foundation Inc ($100k), The Backside Learning Center Inc ($100k), Lexington Center Corporation ($50k).
- Does Middleground Capital Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 95% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Middleground Capital Charitable Foundation 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 Middleground Capital Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc, Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundation.
- Where is Middleground Capital Charitable Foundation based?
- Middleground Capital Charitable Foundation is based in KY.
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