Kentucky · Private foundation
Sam Swope Family Foundation 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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $80,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $130,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 56
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Sam Swope Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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 | 16 | $1.2M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $1.2M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $890k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $755k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $1.1M | 41% |
| FY2020 | 56 | $1.0M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Joseph Catholic Orphan Society | $545,000 | 6 | n/a |
| West End School Inc | $440,000 | 6 | 4% |
| University of Louisville Foundation Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Family Scholar House Inc | $390,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Kentucky Humane Society - Animal Rescue | $380,000 | 4 | 2% |
| The Home of the Innocents Inc | $375,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Maryhurst Inc | $340,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Casa of the River Region | $340,000 | 6 | 6% |
| The Boys & Girls Clubs Inc | $315,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Kosair Charities Committee Inc | $280,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sam Swope Family Foundation Inc 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: The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Wood & Marie Hannah Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sam Swope Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Sam Swope Family Foundation Inc give?
- Sam Swope Family Foundation Inc reported 16 grants totaling $1,215,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 56 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Sam Swope Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Youth Development (21%), Education (14%).
- Who are Sam Swope Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: St Joseph Catholic Orphan Society ($545k), West End School Inc ($440k), University of Louisville Foundation Inc ($400k).
- Does Sam Swope Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sam Swope Family Foundation Inc 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 Sam Swope Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, The Gheens Foundation Inc.
- Where is Sam Swope Family Foundation Inc based?
- Sam Swope Family Foundation Inc is based in KY.
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