How do I find funders for a civil rights and advocacy nonprofit in Kentucky?

Start with the funders already giving to civil rights and advocacy in Kentucky, currently National Urban League Inc, The Chicago Community Trust, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc. Then look at who funds the civil rights and advocacy 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 civil rights and advocacy in Kentucky?

$76M reached 79 civil rights and advocacy organizations in Kentucky, from 293 funders. 46% 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 · Civil rights and advocacy

Who funds civil rights and advocacy in Kentucky

Funding is concentrated: The Louisville Urban League Inc alone draws 57% of every civil rights and advocacy grant dollar in Kentucky.

$76M

granted

organizations

46%

from in-state

The short version

293 funders gave $76M to 79 civil rights and advocacy organizations in Kentucky across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
46% of that came from funders also based in Kentucky; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of civil rights and advocacy in Kentucky is National Urban League Inc, at $11M.
The civil rights and advocacy organization drawing the most is The Louisville Urban League Inc, at $43M.

Largest funders of civil rights and advocacy in Kentucky

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

1National Urban League Inc$11M 2The Chicago Community Trust$6M 3The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc$5M 4The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc$4M 5American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$3M 6Brown-Forman Foundation$3M 7James Graham Brown Foundation Inc$3M 8New Venture Fund$2M 9Kosair Charities Committee Inc$2M 10Humana Foundation Inc$2M

Civil rights and advocacy organizations in Kentucky that draw the most

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

The Louisville Urban League Inc$43M American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky Foundation Inc$7M

69 other civil rights and advocacy organizations$6M

Harbor House of Louisville Inc$4M American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky Inc$4M

How to find civil rights and advocacy funders in Kentucky

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Start with the funders already active in Kentucky
The funders giving the most to civil rights and advocacy in Kentucky are National Urban League Inc, The Chicago Community Trust, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc. A funder already writing civil rights and advocacy checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the civil rights and advocacy 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
54% of civil rights and advocacy money in Kentucky comes from funders elsewhere, so national civil rights and advocacy funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Kentucky.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a civil rights and advocacy nonprofit in Kentucky?: Start with the funders already giving to civil rights and advocacy in Kentucky, currently National Urban League Inc, The Chicago Community Trust, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc. Then look at who funds the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Kentucky from out of state.
Who is the largest civil rights and advocacy funder in Kentucky?: National Urban League Inc gives the most to civil rights and advocacy organizations in Kentucky, $11M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to civil rights and advocacy in Kentucky?: $76M reached 79 civil rights and advocacy organizations in Kentucky, from 293 funders. 46% 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 unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; 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.