· Private foundation
The Josephine Ardery Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $10,000 |
| SOUTH UNION SHAKER VILLAGE | $10,000 |
| THE BERRY CENTER | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $6,000 |
| FOOD LITERACY PROJECT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| MARY TODD LINCOLN HOUSE-KY MANSIONS PRESERATION FDN | $5,000 |
| DRY STONE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| FARMINGTON | $5,000 |
| LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC | $5,000 |
| ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL SOCIETY COLONIAL DAMES-KY | $4,525 |
| KY GATEWAY MUSEUM | $3,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +63% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BGBLUE GRASS TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC6× · 2018–2024 · $55k · revenue +95%
- TBTHE BERRY CENTER INC5× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +28%
- HCHENRY CLAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2023 · $22k · revenue +164%
Funded once
- KTKENTUCKY TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INCone grant, 2019 · $25k
- KFKENTUCKY FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $18k · revenue +30%
- ACART CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +113%
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.
Preservation kentucky's mission is to build support for and protect kentucky's historic structures and resources.
The organizations mission is to honor and promote the historical significance of the community of rabbit hash, ky. including preserving and maintaining the physical structures and buildings of the historical community.
The Kentucky Theatre is a historic building in downtown Lexington, KY, that had fallen into disuse and disrepair. Purchased by the City of Lexington, The Friends of the Kentucky Theatre Inc is a nonprofit tasked with overseeing the…
To purchase, preserve and display historic sites and to advance education, culture, and the arts in kentucky.
Preservation and conservation of land in boone county, kentucky
Wildlife conservation
The mission of the organization is to educate the public by interpreting the life and time of senator john brown and his descendants. the organization will collect, document, preserve, conserve, and exhibit the social domestic, and…
To preserve blackacre's natural and historic features, promote outdoor environmental education, and share blackacre's cultural heritage with the community.
Kmac is louisvilles premier contemporary art museum in downtown louisville on museum row. through exhibitions, education, and outreach, kmac works to connect people to art and creative practice.
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…
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…
How this is measured
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 54 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 BLUE GRASS TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BERRY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JOSEPHINE SCULPTURE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER FIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY CLAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DRY STONE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ART CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds APPALSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds HINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ARBOR YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVE ANATOK LLC ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TURNAROUND RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY MANSIONS PRESERVATION FDN INC DBA MARY TODD LINCOLN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC PARIS-BOURBON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY 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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Tallgrass Farm Foundation Inc · Kentucky Humanities Council Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation · Elhapa Foundation Inc · Isaac Van Meter IV Fam Fund Inc Agy · Clifton Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Josephine Ardery Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Josephine Ardery Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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