Kentucky · Nonprofit
LOUISVILLE & JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION
LOUISVILLE & JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $13,000 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE DEPOSITORY INC ($13,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $-28348
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Louisville & Jefferson County Public Defender Corporation does
Mission
To provide independent, effective, high quality representation to individual clients in the spirit of the public defender's credo and in compliance with the rules of professional conduct. To work interdependently with other professionals in the courts and leaders in executive, legislative and judicial branches, along with the citizens of the commonwealth of kentucky, to advance the interests of our indigent clients and improve the operation of the criminal justice system.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The sole activity of the Louisville & Jefferson County Public Defender Corporation was rendering legal services pursuant to court appointment in jefferson county, kentucky, to indigent adults and juveniles accused of crimes and status offenses, and to those who were subjected to involuntary hospitalization due to mental illness. With the passage of hb 568 by the kentucky legislature on march 16, 2023, the legal services provided by Louisville & Jefferson County Public Defender Corporation were terminated as of june 30, 2024. The kentucky department of advocacy ("dpa") provides those legal services beginning on july 1, 2024.
$7,000 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $5.2M to $6.0M (+15%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% · 2024 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of LOUISVILLE & JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Leo G Smith
Executive director/chief p
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of LOUISVILLE & JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of LOUISVILLE & JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
LOUISVILLE & JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LOUISVILLE & JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
1% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOUISVILLE & JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LOUISVILLE & JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION?
- LOUISVILLE & JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $13,000 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE DEPOSITORY INC ($13,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LOUISVILLE & JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $13,000 in grants to LOUISVILLE & JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION.
- Who is the largest funder of LOUISVILLE & JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE DEPOSITORY INC is the largest funder on record, with $13,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOUISVILLE & JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing