Kentucky · Private foundation
Orphan Society of Lexington Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $172k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 31
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Orphan Society of Lexington Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $172k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $160k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $135k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $150k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $160k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $166k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baby Health Services Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Child Development Center Corporation | $55,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Lexington Kentucky | $50,500 | 6 | 0% |
| God's Pantry Food Bank Inc | $49,160 | 6 | 0% |
| Common Good Community Development Corporation | $43,100 | 6 | 2% |
| Open Door Church Inc | $38,500 | 6 | n/a |
| The Central Music Academy Inc | $19,300 | 5 | 2% |
| Bluegrass Youth Ballet Inc | $18,800 | 6 | 1% |
| Surgery on Sunday Inc | $14,232 | 5 | 3% |
| Central Kentucky Riding for Hope Inc | $11,200 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baby Health Services Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Child Development Center Corporation | $55,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Lexington Kentucky | $50,500 | 6 | 0% |
| God's Pantry Food Bank Inc | $49,160 | 6 | 0% |
| Common Good Community Development Corporation | $43,100 | 6 | 2% |
| Open Door Church Inc | $38,500 | 6 | n/a |
| The Central Music Academy Inc | $19,300 | 5 | 2% |
| Bluegrass Youth Ballet Inc | $18,800 | 6 | 1% |
| Surgery on Sunday Inc | $14,232 | 5 | 3% |
| Central Kentucky Riding for Hope Inc | $11,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bluegrass Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Junior Achievement of the Bluegrass Inc | $8,608 | 5 | 0% |
| The Living Arts & Science Center Inc | $8,100 | 3 | 1% |
| Arbor Youth Services Inc | $6,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Repairers of the Breach Inc | $6,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Lexington Children's Museum | $3,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Chrysalis House Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Henry Clay Memorial Foundation | $1,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Lexington History Museum Inc | $200 | 2 | 0% |
| Kentucky Natural Lands Trust Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($538k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Orphan Society of Lexington Trust supplied at peak.
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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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Roaring Brook Foundation Inc · Keeneland Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · United Way of the Bluegrass Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Christian Word Ministries Inc · Hilary Boone Foundation Inc · The King's Daughters and Sons Foundation of Kentucky Inc · Elhapa Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Orphan Society of Lexington Trust
- How much does Orphan Society of Lexington Trust give?
- Orphan Society of Lexington Trust reported 26 grants totaling $171,870 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Orphan Society of Lexington Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), Health (14%), Religion (10%).
- Who are Orphan Society of Lexington Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Baby Health Services Inc ($60k), Child Development Center Corporation ($55k), Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Lexington Kentucky ($51k).
- Does Orphan Society of Lexington Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Orphan Society of Lexington Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Orphan Society of Lexington Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc, American Water Charitable Foundationinc.
- Where is Orphan Society of Lexington Trust based?
- Orphan Society of Lexington Trust is based in KY.
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