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Community Foundation of South Central Kentucky Inc
The community foundation is a collection of individual funds and resources given by local citizens to enhance and support the quality of life in our community.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 29
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.8M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $27,520
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $26M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations Community Foundation of South Central Kentucky 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; $300k 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 | 29 | $1.8M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $1.5M | 32% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $1.2M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $596k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $2.0M | 48% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $777k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $302k | 44% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $420k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Special Forces Association | $1,159,000 | 5 | 28% |
| Western Kentucky University Foundation | $776,267 | 4 | 6% |
| Special Forces Scholarship Fund | $513,000 | 4 | 45% |
| Operation Pride Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 56% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Bowling Green Area Inc | $435,706 | 6 | 7% |
| United Way of Southern Kentucky Inc | $372,809 | 6 | 3% |
| Foundry Christian Community Center Inc | $340,475 | 4 | n/a |
| Freedom Baptist Church | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Special Ops Xcursions | $295,500 | 5 | 21% |
| College Heights Foundation Inc | $275,510 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 74 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($193k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Community Foundation of South Central Kentucky Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 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: United Way of Southern Kentucky Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable Foundation · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · The Jerry E Baker Foundation Inc · The John M & Linda J Kelly Family Charitable Foundation · Laura G Turner Charitable Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Dorothy Kopmeier Vallier Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Community Foundation of South Central Kentucky Inc with peer funders
About Community Foundation of South Central Kentucky Inc
- How much does Community Foundation of South Central Kentucky Inc give?
- Community Foundation of South Central Kentucky Inc reported 29 itemized grants totaling $1,783,954, out of $1,888,954 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Community Foundation of South Central Kentucky Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (22%), Human Services (14%), Public Safety & Disaster (10%).
- Who are Community Foundation of South Central Kentucky Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Special Forces Association ($1.2M), Western Kentucky University Foundation ($776k), Special Forces Scholarship Fund ($513k).
- Does Community Foundation of South Central Kentucky Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of South Central Kentucky Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Southern Kentucky Inc, Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc, The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Community Foundation of South Central Kentucky Inc based?
- Community Foundation of South Central Kentucky Inc is based in KY.
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