How do I find funders for a food and agriculture nonprofit in Kentucky?

Start with the funders already giving to food and agriculture in Kentucky, currently Feeding America, Ldg Development Foundation Inc, Kentucky Tourism Arts and Heritage Fou. Then look at who funds the food and agriculture 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 food and agriculture in Kentucky?

$27M reached 65 food and agriculture organizations in Kentucky, from 247 funders. 44% 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 · Food and agriculture

Who funds food and agriculture in Kentucky

$27M reached 65 food and agriculture organizations in Kentucky, from 247 funders, with no single one dominating.

$27M

granted

organizations

44%

from in-state

The short version

247 funders gave $27M to 65 food and agriculture organizations in Kentucky across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
44% of that came from funders also based in Kentucky; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of food and agriculture in Kentucky is Feeding America, at $7M.
The food and agriculture organization drawing the most is Dare to Care Inc, at $8M.

Largest funders of food and agriculture in Kentucky

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

1Feeding America$7M 2Ldg Development Foundation Inc$3M 3Kentucky Tourism Arts and Heritage Fou$1M 4American Online Giving Foundation Inc$908k 5Yum Brands Foundation Inc$902k 6Share Our Strength$810k 7Network for Good$698k 8The Community Foundation Of$609k 9Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$585k 10Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc$583k

Food and agriculture organizations in Kentucky that draw the most

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

Dare to Care Inc$8M Feeding America Kentucky's Heartland$5M Feed Louisville Inc$4M

55 other food and agriculture organizations$3M

Feeding Kentucky Inc$3M Kentucky Exposition Foundation Inc$1M

How to find food and agriculture funders in Kentucky

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Start with the funders already active in Kentucky
The funders giving the most to food and agriculture in Kentucky are Feeding America, Ldg Development Foundation Inc, Kentucky Tourism Arts and Heritage Fou. A funder already writing food and agriculture checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the food and agriculture 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
56% of food and agriculture money in Kentucky comes from funders elsewhere, so national food and agriculture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Kentucky.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a food and agriculture nonprofit in Kentucky?: Start with the funders already giving to food and agriculture in Kentucky, currently Feeding America, Ldg Development Foundation Inc, Kentucky Tourism Arts and Heritage Fou. Then look at who funds the food and agriculture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Kentucky from out of state.
Who is the largest food and agriculture funder in Kentucky?: Feeding America gives the most to food and agriculture organizations in Kentucky, $7M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to food and agriculture in Kentucky?: $27M reached 65 food and agriculture organizations in Kentucky, from 247 funders. 44% 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.