Kentucky · Private foundation
Public Life Foundation of Owensboro
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.
- $4.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,518,819
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 35
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Public Life Foundation of Owensboro funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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 | 21 | $4.4M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $755k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $442k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $452k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $298k | 51% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $267k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goodfellows Club of Owensboro Kentucky Inc | $623,700 | 6 | 44% |
| Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence Inc | $520,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Family Y of Owensboro-Daviess Co | $306,904 | 6 | 0% |
| Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce Inc | $151,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Greater Owensboro Leadership Institute Inc | $106,000 | 2 | 64% |
| Green River District Health Dept | $20,018 | 5 | n/a |
| Green River Asset Building Coalition Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Hl Neblett Community Center Inc | $11,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wylde Center Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Public Life Foundation of Owensboro supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 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.
Open a dossier: Owensboro Health Inc · Marilyn & William Young Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Sara Hemingway Ex Di · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · United Way of the Ohio Valley Inc · Lester E Yeager Charitable Trust B · B J Killian Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Lawrence & Augusta Hager Educational Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Impact 100 - Owensboro Inc · Baird Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Public Life Foundation of Owensboro
- How much does Public Life Foundation of Owensboro give?
- Public Life Foundation of Owensboro reported 22 grants totaling $4,431,690 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 35 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Public Life Foundation of Owensboro fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (53%), Human Services (16%), Civil Rights (11%).
- Who are Public Life Foundation of Owensboro's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Goodfellows Club of Owensboro Kentucky Inc ($624k), Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence Inc ($520k), Family Y of Owensboro-Daviess Co ($307k).
- Does Public Life Foundation of Owensboro fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Public Life Foundation of Owensboro 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 Public Life Foundation of Owensboro?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Owensboro Health Inc, Marilyn & William Young Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Sara Hemingway Ex Di, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc.
- Where is Public Life Foundation of Owensboro based?
- Public Life Foundation of Owensboro is based in KY.
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