Kentucky · Public charity
The Kentucky Bar Foundation Inc
To promote the administration of justice and to educate the public about the role of the judicial system and the legal profession in the society.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $298,700
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $22M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The Kentucky Bar Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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 | 26 | $1.3M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $1.6M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $937k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $874k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $680k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $852k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $1.7M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $1.9M | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Kentucky Legal Aid Society | $3,001,313 | 9 | 22% |
| Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky Inc | $2,289,409 | 8 | 13% |
| Legal Aid Society Inc | $2,164,135 | 9 | 9% |
| Cumberland Trace Legal Services Inc | $1,241,595 | 8 | 6% |
| Appalchian Research & Defense Fund of Kentucky Inc | $446,074 | 1 | n/a |
| Kentucky Legal Aid | $445,586 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Kentucky | $225,350 | 9 | n/a |
| University of Louisville Research Foundation | $187,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Northern Kentucky University Research Foundation Inc | $185,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Kentucky Innocence Project Inc | $80,000 | 6 | 12% |
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Where it is load-bearing
The Kentucky Bar Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 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.
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How this is measured
About The Kentucky Bar Foundation Inc
- How much does The Kentucky Bar Foundation Inc give?
- The Kentucky Bar Foundation Inc reported 29 itemized grants totaling $1,317,040, out of $1,365,171 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Kentucky Bar Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (90%), Human Services (3%), Education (3%).
- Who are The Kentucky Bar Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Northern Kentucky Legal Aid Society ($3.0M), Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky Inc ($2.3M), Legal Aid Society Inc ($2.2M).
- Does The Kentucky Bar Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kentucky Bar Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc.
- Where is The Kentucky Bar Foundation Inc based?
- The Kentucky Bar Foundation Inc is based in KY.
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