Does The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable 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 The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of South Central Kentucky Inc, Baird Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc.

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Kentucky · Private foundation

The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable Foundation

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.

$5.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 32
Grants FY2025: 32
Organizations funded FY2024: 22%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $700,000
Organizations funded a year: 11 to 36; FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 7
Total assets, FY2025: $79M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	32	$5.6M	25%
FY2024	32	$5.9M	22%
FY2023	36	$6.1M	44%
FY2022	30	$6.3M	37%
FY2021	29	$4.6M	45%
FY2020	22	$4.5M	77%
FY2019	11	$3.6M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$8.5MReligion$7.0MArts & Culture$3.3MEducation$3.0MHealth$2.8MHuman Services$2.7MYouth Development$2.7MEnvironment$1.9MOther$0

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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Hilltopper Athletic Foundation Inc	$5,700,000	7	28%
Living Hope Baptist Church Inc	$3,749,500	7	n/a
Operation Pride Inc	$1,810,000	6	32%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Bowling Green Area Inc	$1,396,560	4	40%
McGregor Baptist Church	$1,240,000	5	n/a
Sunrise Children's Services Inc	$955,000	3	2%
Red Towel Collective Incorporated Wilson	$950,000	4	67%
Friends of Lost River Inc	$900,000	5	16%
A Better Bgky Inc	$640,000	1	n/a
College Heights Foundation Inc	$630,000	4	1%

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All grantees of The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Hilltopper Athletic Foundation Inc	$5,700,000	7	28%
Living Hope Baptist Church Inc	$3,749,500	7	n/a
Operation Pride Inc	$1,810,000	6	32%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Bowling Green Area Inc	$1,396,560	4	40%
McGregor Baptist Church	$1,240,000	5	n/a
Sunrise Children's Services Inc	$955,000	3	2%
Red Towel Collective Incorporated Wilson	$950,000	4	67%
Friends of Lost River Inc	$900,000	5	16%
A Better Bgky Inc	$640,000	1	n/a
College Heights Foundation Inc	$630,000	4	1%
Aviation Heritage Park	$625,000	2	80%
Fellowship of Christian Athletes	$500,000	5	0%
Project Camp Inc	$485,000	1	12%
Kentucky Veterans Brigade	$460,000	3	91%
Discovery Place Inc	$450,000	5	4%
Foundry Christian Community Center Inc	$400,000	3	n/a
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & In	$400,000	4	1%
Danville Christian Academy	$382,500	2	10%
Western Kentucky University Foundation	$300,000	3	1%
Lantern Lane Farm Inc	$220,000	4	6%
Team Focus Inc	$210,000	2	21%
Samaritan's Purse	$200,000	1	0%
Donelson Christian Academy Inc	$200,000	3	1%
Commonwealth Policy Foundation Inc	$180,000	3	25%
Norton Healthcare Foundation Inc	$155,000	4	1%
Corner Stone Church	$153,000	1	n/a
Cornerstone Assembly of God	$130,000	2	n/a
Trinity High School Foundation	$115,000	3	0%
ECHO Inc	$100,000	1	15%
Haven Care Center Inc	$100,000	1	25%
Wrote Inc	$100,000	1	45%
New Hope Food Pantry	$100,000	1	n/a
Veterans Airlift Command	$100,000	2	1%
Hotel Inc	$70,000	3	1%
Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc	$63,351	2	1%
National Scleroderma Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	1%
The Home of the Innocents Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Axis Church Inc	$30,000	1	n/a
Friends of Barren River Lake & Park	$20,000	2	54%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.

The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

Community Foundation of South Central Kentucky IncKY24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of South Central Kentucky Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Jerry E Baker Foundation Inc · Berta Family Foundation Inc · The John M & Linda J Kelly Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of Southern Kentucky Inc · Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable Foundation

How much does The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable Foundation give?: The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $5,630,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 36 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (23%), Religion (19%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Hilltopper Athletic Foundation Inc ($5.7M), Living Hope Baptist Church Inc ($3.7M), Operation Pride Inc ($1.8M).
Does The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable 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 The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of South Central Kentucky Inc, Baird Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc.
Where is The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable Foundation based?: The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable Foundation is based in KY.