Kentucky · Private foundation
The Sam Schubert Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $123k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2024
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Sam Schubert Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 19 | $101k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $92k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $122k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $102k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $40k | 73% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $130k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $155k | 31% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $84k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yew Dell Inc | $192,750 | 8 | 2% |
| Louisville Collegiate School | $143,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Sayre School | $42,500 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Kentucky | $20,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Wednesdays Child Inc | $15,000 | 6 | 3% |
| West End School Inc | $10,650 | 3 | 0% |
| Phoenix Benefit Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| The Center for Women and Families Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kentucky Derby Museum Corporation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Filson Historical Society Inc | $8,350 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 56 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($279k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sam Schubert Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Sam Schubert Foundation
- How much does The Sam Schubert Foundation give?
- The Sam Schubert Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $122,650 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Sam Schubert Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (36%), Education (28%), Youth Development (7%).
- Who are The Sam Schubert Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Yew Dell Inc ($193k), Louisville Collegiate School ($143k), Sayre School ($43k).
- Does The Sam Schubert Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sam Schubert 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 Sam Schubert Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc.
- Where is The Sam Schubert Foundation based?
- The Sam Schubert Foundation is based in KY.
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