Kentucky · Grantmakers

Foundations That Fund Health & Medicine in Kentucky

Imperigo has identified 343 funders that made 2,202 grants totaling $1.2B to 241 health & medicine organizations in Kentucky, with a median grant of $20K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.

Health & Medicine Funding in Kentucky

Total granted $1.2B
Funders 343
Grants 2,202
Organizations funded 241

Top Funders — page 2 of 4

26. Passport Health Solutions LLC
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $407K · through 2022 · 100.0% of their giving
$407K
27. Commonwealth Credit Union
9 grants to 3 organizations · largest $250K · through 2024 · 15.2% of their giving
$414K
28. Interact for Health
8 grants to 3 organizations · largest $308K · through 2024 · 4.4% of their giving
$1.2M
29. Ronald McDonald House Global
11 grants to 2 organizations · largest $839K · through 2025 · 1.3% of their giving
$3.9M
30. Livingston Hospital Foundation Inc
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $150K · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$233K
31. Ipa Foundation
19 grants to 5 organizations · largest $110K · through 2024 · 11.1% of their giving
$390K
32. Louisville Scottish Rite Foundation Inc
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $117K · through 2020 · 31.0% of their giving
$210K
33. Knights of Columbus 1455
5 grants to 2 organizations · largest $59K · through 2025 · 83.4% of their giving
$198K
34. United Way of Greater Cincinnati
20 grants to 3 organizations · largest $409K · through 2024 · 1.4% of their giving
$2.9M
35. Marie Woodson Endowment
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $64K · through 2024 · 50.0% of their giving
$193K
36. Catholic Charities of Louisville Inc
10 grants to 4 organizations · largest $852K · through 2024 · 2.0% of their giving
$1.8M
37. Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc
71 grants to 22 organizations · largest $170K · through 2024 · 1.8% of their giving
$1.8M
38. United Way of Central Kentucky Inc
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $68K · through 2023 · 10.1% of their giving
$292K
39. Impact 100 - Owensboro Inc
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $100K · through 2024 · 13.7% of their giving
$138K
40. Sahetya Foundation Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $81K · through 2022 · 23.0% of their giving
$81K
41. Kentucky Health Departments Assn
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $210K · through 2024 · 5.9% of their giving
$270K
42. Breckinridge Health Foundation Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $76K · through 2025 · 47.1% of their giving
$76K
43. Kosair Charities Committee Inc
9 grants to 9 organizations · largest $347K · through 2023 · 1.4% of their giving
$1.1M
44. Hilltopper Athletic Foundation Inc
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $246K · through 2022 · 3.7% of their giving
$379K
45. Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc
44 grants to 23 organizations · largest $24K · through 2023 · 2.5% of their giving
$493K
46. The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc
8 grants to 5 organizations · largest $30K · through 2024 · 9.5% of their giving
$131K
47. Addie and Baylor Kirchgessner Foundation Inc
5 grants to 2 organizations · largest $25K · through 2025 · 17.4% of their giving
$57K
48. The Avril Lavigne Foundation
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $30K · through 2024 · 17.8% of their giving
$48K
49. The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc
52 grants to 19 organizations · largest $60K · through 2024
$868K
50. Metro United Way Inc
15 grants to 5 organizations · largest $138K · through 2024 · 1.4% of their giving
$493K

Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to health & medicine 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. 12 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.

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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 health & medicine 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 health & medicine funding in Kentucky, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.

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