Kentucky · Private foundation
The Greater Clark 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.
- $572k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,900
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $220,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $46M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations The Greater Clark Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 80% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $395k 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 | 10 | $567k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $495k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $451k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $554k | 46% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $600k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $373k | 65% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $395k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $169k | 46% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legacy Greenscapes Inc | $717,108 | 5 | 86% |
| The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation | $416,700 | 7 | 15% |
| Mountain Comprehensive Care Center Inc | $57,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Winchester Council for the Artsinc Dba Leeds Center for the Arts | $52,157 | 4 | 6% |
| Clark County Community Services In | $45,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Philanthropy Southeast Inc | $44,588 | 9 | 0% |
| Achieving Recovery Together Inc | $27,433 | 3 | 10% |
| Kentucky Nonprofit Network Inc | $25,100 | 9 | 3% |
| I Was Here Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 30% |
| Lexarts Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Greater Clark Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · John N Browning Family Fdcarlisle Co US · E&W G Foundation · United Way of the Bluegrass Inc · Tc Energy Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About The Greater Clark Foundation Inc
- How much does The Greater Clark Foundation Inc give?
- The Greater Clark Foundation Inc reported 13 grants totaling $571,775 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Greater Clark Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (34%), Community Improvement (16%), Philanthropy (6%).
- Who are The Greater Clark Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Legacy Greenscapes Inc ($717k), The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation ($417k), Mountain Comprehensive Care Center Inc ($58k).
- Does The Greater Clark Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Greater Clark 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 The Greater Clark Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc, Snowy Owl Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Greater Clark Foundation Inc based?
- The Greater Clark Foundation Inc is based in KY.
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