Kentucky · Private foundation
Nafzger Family Foundation
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.
- $56k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2024
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $33,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 30
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $244k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Nafzger Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 11 | $56k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $49k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $54k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $47k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $52k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $39k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $36k | 68% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $20k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samaritan's Purse | $74,000 | 6 | 0% |
| South Dakota State University Foundation | $30,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Backside Learning Center Inc | $23,550 | 6 | 1% |
| Kentucky Race Track Chaplaincy Inc | $20,100 | 8 | 1% |
| Food for the Poor Inc | $13,041 | 6 | 0% |
| Cal Farley's Boys Ranch | $11,000 | 6 | 0% |
| National Museum of Racing Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Heritage House Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Southwest Parkinson Society | $4,700 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($125k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nafzger Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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: Mary K Oxley Foundation · Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Brian Ratner Foundation · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Jockey Club Safety Net Foundation · C F Pollard Foundation Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc
How this is measured
About Nafzger Family Foundation
- How much does Nafzger Family Foundation give?
- Nafzger Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $55,667 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Nafzger Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (27%), International (21%), Health (9%).
- Who are Nafzger Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Samaritan's Purse ($74k), South Dakota State University Foundation ($30k), The Backside Learning Center Inc ($24k).
- Does Nafzger Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nafzger Family 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 Nafzger Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mary K Oxley Foundation, Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc.
- Where is Nafzger Family Foundation based?
- Nafzger Family Foundation is based in KY.
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