How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in Kentucky?

Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in Kentucky, currently Commonwealth Fund for Ket Inc, The Community Foundation Of, The Sar Foundation Inc. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Kentucky from out of state.

How much grant money goes to arts and culture in Kentucky?

$122M reached 279 arts and culture organizations in Kentucky, from 541 funders. 66% came from funders also based in Kentucky.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Kentucky · Arts and culture

Who funds arts and culture in Kentucky

Arts and culture funding in Kentucky is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Kentucky Educational Television leads, and the money reaches 279 groups.

$122M

granted

279

organizations

66%

from in-state

The short version

541 funders gave $122M to 279 arts and culture organizations in Kentucky across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
66% of that came from funders also based in Kentucky; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of arts and culture in Kentucky is Commonwealth Fund for Ket Inc, at $10M.
The arts and culture organization drawing the most is Kentucky Educational Television, at $12M.

Largest funders of arts and culture in Kentucky

The funders giving the most to arts and culture organizations in Kentucky, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Commonwealth Fund for Ket Inc$10M 2The Community Foundation Of$10M 3The Sar Foundation Inc$9M 4Fund for the Arts Inc$8M 5Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation$6M 6Brown-Forman Foundation$4M 7Owensboro Symphony Orchestra Foundation$3M 8The Andrew W Mellon Foundation$3M 9Flock Inc$3M 10James Graham Brown Foundation Inc$3M

Arts and culture organizations in Kentucky that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

269 other arts and culture organizations$48M

Kentucky Educational Television$12M The Louisville Orchestra Inc$11M Speed Art Museum$9M National Society of the Sons of The$9M Luther F Carson Four Rivers Center Inc$7M Appalshop Inc$7M Fund for the Arts Inc$5M Actors Theatre of Louisville Inc$4M Kentucky Public Radio Inc$4M Kentucky Dance Council Inc$3M

How to find arts and culture funders in Kentucky

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Start with the funders already active in Kentucky
The funders giving the most to arts and culture in Kentucky are Commonwealth Fund for Ket Inc, The Community Foundation Of, The Sar Foundation Inc. A funder already writing arts and culture checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
34% of arts and culture money in Kentucky comes from funders elsewhere, so national arts and culture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Kentucky.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in Kentucky?: Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in Kentucky, currently Commonwealth Fund for Ket Inc, The Community Foundation Of, The Sar Foundation Inc. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Kentucky from out of state.
Who is the largest arts and culture funder in Kentucky?: Commonwealth Fund for Ket Inc gives the most to arts and culture organizations in Kentucky, $10M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to arts and culture in Kentucky?: $122M reached 279 arts and culture organizations in Kentucky, from 541 funders. 66% came from funders also based in Kentucky.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.