Arts & Culture Funding in Kentucky
Total granted
$165.0M
Funders
230
Grants
2,425
Organizations funded
267
Kentucky · Grantmakers
Foundations That Fund Arts & Culture in Kentucky
Imperigo has identified 230 funders that made 2,425 grants totaling $165.0M to 267 arts & culture organizations in Kentucky, with a median grant of $18K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.
Top Funders — page 3 of 4
$175K
$2.5M
$444K
$497K
$496K
$201K
$273K
$95K
$104K
$225K
$318K
$140K
$119K
$168K
$153K
$105K
$226K
$250K
$3.0M
$1.0M
$1.2M
$5.0M
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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