Kentucky · Private foundation
The W Bruce Lunsford Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $741k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 32
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $554k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations The W Bruce Lunsford Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 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 | 19 | $741k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $740k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $696k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $478k | 53% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $587k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $554k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lexington Theatre Company | $250,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Catholic Education Foundation Inc | $237,500 | 6 | 1% |
| West End School Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Bellarmine University Incorporated | $130,300 | 5 | 0% |
| Francis Parker School of Louisville Inc St Francis High School Inc | $125,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Dare to Care Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| National STEM Cell Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Fund for the Arts Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Louisville Orchestra Inc | $18,350 | 3 | 0% |
| Commonwealth Fund for Ket Inc | $15,500 | 6 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The W Bruce Lunsford Foundation Inc 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.
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How this is measured
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About The W Bruce Lunsford Foundation Inc
- How much does The W Bruce Lunsford Foundation Inc give?
- The W Bruce Lunsford Foundation Inc reported 26 grants totaling $740,990 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The W Bruce Lunsford Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (80%), Arts & Culture (11%), Religion (2%).
- Who are The W Bruce Lunsford Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Lexington Theatre Company ($250k), Catholic Education Foundation Inc ($238k), West End School Inc ($150k).
- Does The W Bruce Lunsford Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The W Bruce Lunsford Foundation Inc 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 W Bruce Lunsford Foundation Inc?
- 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 W Bruce Lunsford Foundation Inc based?
- The W Bruce Lunsford Foundation Inc is based in KY.
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