· 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.
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.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $263k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $465k
- $250k+2 grants · $560k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| APPALACHIAN RESEARCH AND DEFENSE FUND OF KENTUCKY INC (APPALRED LEGAL AID | $298,700 |
| LEGAL AID OF THE BLUEGRASS | $261,500 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC | $236,800 |
| KENTUCKY LEGAL AID | $228,000 |
| NKU RESEARCH FOUNDATIONCHASE | $20,000 |
| UOFLGREENEBAUM PUBLIC SERVICE PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| STUDENT PUBLIC INTERST LAW FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF L | $20,000 |
| HOLLY HILL CHILD & FAMILY SOLUTIONS | $15,000 |
| FAMILY ENRICHMENT CENTER | $15,000 |
| LA CASITA CENTER | $15,000 |
| MICAH LEGAL | $15,000 |
| THE NEST-CENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN & FAMILIES | $11,000 |
| SAFE HARBOR OF NORTHEAST KY INC | $11,000 |
| THE ION CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION | $11,000 |
| KY HIGH SCHOOLD MOCK TRIAL ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $493k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 76% 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 +48% since the first grant, against +47% for those funded once.
43 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NKNorthern Kentucky Legal Aid Society9× · 2017–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +71%
- ARAppalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +72%
- LALEGAL AID SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +48%
Funded once
- ARAPPALCHIAN RESEARCH & DEFENSE FUND OF KENTUCKY INCone grant, 2017 · $446k
- KLKENTUCKY LEGAL AIDone grant, 2018 · $446k
- BSBIG SANDY HEALTH CARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +62%
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.
To increase access to the courts and high-quality legal representation for people with low and moderate incomes living in kentucky through innovative partnerships with the judiciary, the civil legal aid programs, private bar, law schools,…
To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.
Provide a coordinated response to concerns of child abuse in a child-focused environment, offering prevention, evaluation and treatment to children and families.
Children's advocacy centers of kentucky, inc. seeks to build relationships at the state and national levels by collaborating with partners which will benefit the work of kentucky child advocacy centers.
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
The mission of Family Nurturing Center is to end the cycle of child abuse by promoting individual well-being and healthy family relationships. We envision a world with safe children, thriving families and nurturing communities and offer a…
To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.
Advocacy and services to crime victims
Volunteers in action seeking safety and permanency for our community's youngest victims. casa provides support, advocacy, and intervention for abused, neglected, and dependent children in south central ky's family court system.
It is the mission of kvc to enrich and enhance the lives of children and their families by providing medical and behavioral healthcare, social services and education.
To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.
Advocates on behalf of abused and neglected Children. Mobilizing our community to break the vicious cycle of child abuse and neglect and provide outstanding advocacy for abused and neglected children who are in the juvenile court system.
How this is measured
55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 66 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 Northern Kentucky Legal Aid Society ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky Inc ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds University of Louisville Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Kentucky Innocence Project Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY REFUGEE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Holly Hill Children's Home Inc ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY YMCA YOUTH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Micah Legal Services Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OFFICE OF KENTUCKY LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF NORTHEAST KY INC ↗
- Who funds Brighton Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LA CASITA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE KENTUCKY LEGAL EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTERN KY REFUGEE MUTUAL ASSISTANCE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS ↗
- Who funds BARREN RIVER AREA CHILD ADVOCACY CE ↗
- Who funds HOTEL INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SANDY HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY RESOURCES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds RAPE VICTIM SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Access Language Solutions Inc ↗
- Who funds Neighbors Immigration Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY CASA NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION 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: Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Louisville Bar Foundation Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Kentucky Council on Child Abuse D/B/A Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · Metro United Way Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kentucky Bar Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kentucky Bar Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Play a game based on Kentucky Bar’s filings →