· Private foundation
Tallgrass Farm Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k12 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+2 grants · $762k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UK OFFICE OF PHILANTHROPY | $510,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $251,529 |
| AMERICAN PAINT HORSE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE BERRY CENTER | $20,000 |
| CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY AND LEARNING | $5,000 |
| MERCER COUNTY YOUTH 4-H INVESTMENT | $4,250 |
| WOLFE COUNTY COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE | $3,500 |
| MORGAN COUNTY COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE | $3,500 |
| FARMINGTON | $2,800 |
| CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL | $2,500 |
| HARRODSBURG UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF LEXINGTON-FAYETTE COUNTY | $1,000 |
| HARRODSBURG CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| RAGGED EDGE COMMUNITY THEATRE | $1,000 |
| MCCRACKEN COUNTY COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY26–26, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +160% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2026, 26 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TBTHE BERRY CENTER INC5× · 2022–2026 · $180k · revenue +2%
- HSHINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $116k · revenue +160%
- AFAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST4× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +229%
Funded once
- UPUNITED PRESBYTERIAN CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $13k
- FOFRIENDS OF FORT HARROD INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -11% · 25% of their budget
- AAAPPALACHIAN ARTISAN CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +210%
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.
Cheekwood's mission is to celebrate and preserve cheekwood as a historical landmark where beauty and excellence in art and horticulture nurture the spirit and serve as inspiration for a diverse and broad audience.cheekwood will be a…
Wildlife conservation
The kentucky main street association empowers communities by providing training, education, and resources that strengthen local main street programs, directors, and the public. through a focus on historic preservation, restoration, and…
The kentucky historical society foundation exists solely to assist and support the kentucky historical society (khs). khs's mission is to educate and engage the public through kentucky history in order to confront the challenges of the…
River fields protects, preserves, and enhances the natural and cultural resources, including agricultural and scenic resources, on both sides of the ohio river between westport and west point, kentucky, for the benefit of the public.we…
The holden arboretum connects people with the wonder, beauty, and value of trees and plants, to inspire action for healthy communities.
To preserve blackacre's natural and historic features, promote outdoor environmental education, and share blackacre's cultural heritage with the community.
To protect, restore and celebrate kentucky's unique waterways and watersheds.
Wwlt's mission is to establish conservation easements in the lower kentucky river region for the myriad of benefits that result from effective land conservation and protection. wwlt seeks to meet these objectives by focusing on three main…
Facilitate agricultural and rural business development in kentucky by 1) providing leadership, educational, technical and financial resources and 2) improving the economic conditions of rural kentucky through promoting development of new…
To help create legacies to enrich the lives of all citizens of the commonwealth of kentucky, continue providing resources for youth development, and communicate the traditions and technology of kentucky agriculture.we also aim to continue…
Conservation education and promotion
How this is measured
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 83 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 THE BERRY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Kentucky Humanities Council Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PAINT HORSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ART CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FORT HARROD INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN ARTISAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INTERFAITH RELATIONS ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FOODCHAIN INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY SHAKESPEARE INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds The Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm 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: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Clifton Foundation Inc · Owsley Brown II Family Foundation Inc · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Josephine Ardery Foundation Inc · Kentucky Humanities Council Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tallgrass Farm Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tallgrass Farm Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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