· Private foundation
The Tallent 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTBRIAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA | $20,000 |
| THE KENTUCKY HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME | $20,000 |
| CROGET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| PRESTONSBURG HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| BETSEY LAYNE HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| FLOYD CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| HIGHLANDS FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE | $10,000 |
| PRESTONSBURG LITTLE LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| THE LEXINGTON CANCER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PAINTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| PIKE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MARTIN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF JENNY WILEY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 59% of its 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 15% of The Tallent Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +12% since the first grant, against -24% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFRIENDS OF JENNY WILEY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $35k
- WEWESTBRIAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue -51% · 26% of their budget
- KHKENTUCKY HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME INC2× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue -85%
Funded once
- UFUSGA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -24%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $200k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ROSE GARDEN INCone grant, 2022 · $100k
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 foster, promote and advance the interests and the true spirit of the game of golf throughout the commonwealth of kentucky, and in conjunction therewith to lend its cooperation and assistance to the united states golf association, and to…
Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…
To promote the health and welfare of all infants, children, and adolescents.
To maintain a proper discipline of the members of the bar in accordance with the rules set forth by the kentucky supreme court and with the principles of the legal profession as a public calling, to initiate and supervise, with the…
Broadens the perspectives of current and emerging leaders through experiential education that inspires them to advance kentucky.
The mission of the kentucky pharmacists association is to promote the profession of pharmacy, enhance the practice standards of the profession, and demonstrate the value of pharmacist services within the health care system. the association…
To promote the health and welfare of all infants, children, and adolescents.
The eku foundation provides support for eastern kentucky university in accomplishing its goals of education and regional stewardship within its southeastern kentucky service region.
The mission of western kentucky university foundation (wkuf) is to create a culture of philanthropy that will advance the goals of wku through prudent and trusted financial management and investment of resources given for the benefit of…
Nonprofit foundation created to support and further the educational, charitable, and public purposes and activities of the kentucky authority for educational television. the organization's primary purpose is to receive, hold, and…
Support for Markey Cancer Center Hospital building expansion and research projects.
Through the framework of the greatest game ever played, the kentucky golf foundation seeks to impact kentucky's youth, military and those of diversity using golf as a toolkit.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 38 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 USGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTBRIAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE ↗
- Who funds THE LEXINGTON CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FALLS CHURCH KIWANIS LITTLE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Boredom Busters ↗
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: Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Tallent Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tallent Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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