Kentucky · Private foundation
Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc
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.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2023
- 81
- Grants FY2023
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
51% of Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Of Louisville Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 48 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 58 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $333,333
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 71
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 13
- Total assets, FY2023
- $8.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $589k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 65 | $2.7M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 71 | $3.0M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 62 | $2.9M | 32% |
| FY2020 | 68 | $2.0M | 43% |
| FY2019 | 60 | $1.1M | 53% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $440k | 57% |
| FY2017 | 37 | $321k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parks Alliance of Louisville Inc | $1,401,449 | 5 | 10% |
| Kentucky College of Art Design | $1,350,000 | 4 | 18% |
| The Louisville Urban League Inc | $763,333 | 4 | 3% |
| Portland Museum Inc | $556,500 | 6 | 23% |
| Kentucky Dance Council Inc Dba Louisville Ballet | $480,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Louisville Collegiate School | $449,545 | 6 | 2% |
| Speed Art Museum | $430,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Kentucky Resources Council Inc | $340,000 | 8 | 28% |
| Greater Louisville Sports Commission Inc | $310,000 | 4 | 12% |
| Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy In | $251,500 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 160 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 148 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: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Owsley Brown II Family Foundation Inc · The Brooke Brown Barzun Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · Brown-Forman Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc
- How much does Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc give?
- Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc reported 81 grants totaling $2,924,742 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 71 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (22%), Arts & Culture (20%), Recreation & Sports (14%).
- Who are Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Parks Alliance of Louisville Inc ($1.4M), Kentucky College of Art Design ($1.4M), The Louisville Urban League Inc ($763k).
- Does Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sociable Weaver 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 Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, The Gheens Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc.
- Where is Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc based?
- Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc is based in KY.
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