Kentucky · Private foundation
Thacker Family Foundation
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.
- $216k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $8,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations Thacker Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 24 | $216k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $236k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $300k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $411k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $260k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $180k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $190k | 15% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $190k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alice Lloyd College | $235,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Hazard City Schools Educational Endowment Foundati | $110,000 | 4 | 93% |
| Knott County Youth Foundation Inc | $89,000 | 8 | 59% |
| Hindman Volunteer Fire Department | $83,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Sunrise Children's Services Inc | $65,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Wymt Tv Mountain Basketball Classic | $60,000 | 4 | 19% |
| Southland Christian Church of Lexington Kentucky Inc | $59,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Hindman United Methodist Church | $57,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & In | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Covington Scottish Rite Foundation | $37,000 | 4 | 10% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alice Lloyd College | $235,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Hazard City Schools Educational Endowment Foundati | $110,000 | 4 | 93% |
| Knott County Youth Foundation Inc | $89,000 | 8 | 59% |
| Hindman Volunteer Fire Department | $83,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Sunrise Children's Services Inc | $65,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Wymt Tv Mountain Basketball Classic | $60,000 | 4 | 19% |
| Southland Christian Church of Lexington Kentucky Inc | $59,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Hindman United Methodist Church | $57,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & In | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Covington Scottish Rite Foundation | $37,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Haleys Angels | $25,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Jenny Wiley Drama Association Inc | $5,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lexington Challenger Tennis Charity Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Carr Creek Alumni Association Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Thacker Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Thacker Family Foundation
- How much does Thacker Family Foundation give?
- Thacker Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $216,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Thacker Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (28%), Public Safety & Disaster (16%), Religion (15%).
- Who are Thacker Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Alice Lloyd College ($235k), Hazard City Schools Educational Endowment Foundati ($110k), Knott County Youth Foundation Inc ($89k).
- Does Thacker Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thacker Family Foundation 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 Thacker Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Thacker Family Foundation based?
- Thacker Family Foundation is based in KY.
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