Arts & Culture Funding in Kentucky
Total granted
$167.8M
Funders
240
Grants
2,505
Organizations funded
273
Kentucky · Grantmakers
Foundations That Fund Arts & Culture in Kentucky
Imperigo has identified 240 funders that made 2,505 grants totaling $167.8M to 273 arts & culture organizations in Kentucky, with a median grant of $17K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.
Top Funders — page 1 of 4
$25.2M
$15.4M
$6.3M
$1.5M
$1.3M
$1.1M
12.
Kga-Pga Inc
$283K
$1.4M
$136K
$619K
$86K
$675K
$320K
22.
Global Ties US
$848K
$274K
$745K
Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to arts & culture work in Kentucky, not by dollar totals alone — a foundation that concentrates its giving here is usually a better prospect than a larger one for which this is a rounding error. 13 of the funders counted here are donor-advised fund sponsors, which grant on behalf of individual donors and accept no applications; they are marked and ranked last.
Other Causes Funded in Kentucky
About This Data
A grant appears here when a funder reported it on its IRS Form 990 and the recipient organization is classified under the NTEE group covering arts & culture work, with an address in Kentucky. Grants are counted from the 2025 filing year backward.
Some 990 grant schedules list a recipient by name and address without an EIN, and those grants cannot be matched to a classification — so the totals above represent identifiable arts & culture funding in Kentucky, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.
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