· Private foundation
Opera House Fund 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $103k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $310k
- $250k+1 grant · $290k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LEXINGTON THEATRE COMPANY | $290,000 |
| LEXINGTON CENTER CORPORATION | $91,678 |
| UK OPERA THEATRE | $91,601 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ARTS SCHOOL (SCAPA) | $66,277 |
| LEXINGTON BALLET COMPANY | $60,000 |
| LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE | $39,850 |
| KENTUCKY BALLET THEATRE | $33,076 |
| BLUEGRASS YOUTH BALLET | $16,817 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,091 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL | $7,982 |
| THE LEXINGTON SINGERS | $7,490 |
| CENTRAL KENTUCKY CONCERT BAND | $4,020 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,924 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LCLEXINGTON CENTER CORPORATION6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +132%
- LTLEXINGTON THEATRE COMPANY4× · 2022–2025 · $432k · revenue +365%
- LCLEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- LTLEXINGTON THEATRE COone grant, 2020 · $60k
- RTREPERTORY THEATRE INCone grant, 2021 · $9k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of lafayette ballet theatre is to provide artistic dance education and cultural programs in the community. lafayette ballet theatre encourages and stimulates development of the performing arts through the offering of…
Studio Players Inc. is a non-profit community theatre in Lexington KY. Incorporated in 1952 the organizations mission is to provide the greater Lexington KY area with a wide array of live theatre production that will be enjoyed by a wide…
The Kentucky Theatre is a historic building in downtown Lexington, KY, that had fallen into disuse and disrepair. Purchased by the City of Lexington, The Friends of the Kentucky Theatre Inc is a nonprofit tasked with overseeing the…
Theatrical stage performances.
To secure long term financial support through public and private sources and to promote philanthropic activities to benefit the foundation's endowment to support the lexington philharmonic society, inc.
To preserve and promote the Latin American and Spanish cultures by performing for diverse audiences for charitable and educational purposes. The company provides professional training to its dancers and students and enhances the community…
The associations purpose is to give the community an opportunity to participate in theatrical productions and expose the community to cultural events
The organization operates a 10-day festival and year round concerts in Lexington, Ky. It is the mission of the Chamber Music Festival of Lexington to present innovative, accessible, and inclusive chamber music performances of the highest…
The organizations mission is to enrich lives and connect the community through opportunities to experience beautiful and high-quality symphonic music with a vision that the organization is a vibrant and integral leader of the Lynchburg,…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LEXINGTON CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Ballet Theatre of Lexington Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS YOUTH BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON SINGERS ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC ↗
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: Lexarts Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Opera House Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Opera House Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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