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Kentucky CASA Network Inc

Louisville, KY · EIN 47-2993676. Reported 91 grants totalling $6,104,691 to 26 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

26organizations funded
$50,200median reported grant
$6,104,691granted, 2020-2023
95%of grantees funded again the next year
10%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Kentucky CASA Network Inc, the IRS classifies it as a fundraising and fund-distribution organization (NTEE T12).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 26 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 95% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $50,200. Half of what it reported fell between $38,164 and $78,525; the smallest was $25,000 and the largest $223,625. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$25,000 - $50,000
42 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
35 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
14 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
CASA of Lexington IncLexington, KY$604,735442023
CASA IncLouisville, KY$535,350442023
CASA of South Central Kentucky IncBowling Green, KY$362,468442023
CASA of the Appalachian MountainsHazard, KY$329,783222023
CASA at Woodlawn IncDanville, KY$303,400442023
CASA of the Northern Bluegrass RegionEdgewood, KY$297,325442023
Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy Center IncPaducah, KY$283,425442023
CASA of the Wilderness Trail IncRichmond, KY$272,925442023
CASA of Ohio Valley IncOwensboro, KY$263,900442023
CASA of Christian Co KyHopkinsville, KY$258,951442023
CASA of the Heartland IncElizabethtown, KY$252,325442023
CASA of Midwest Kentucky IncMadisonville, KY$224,075442023
CASA of the Cumberland Valley IncLondon, KY$217,125442023
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southern Kentucky IncSomerset, KY$207,717442023
The Buffalo Trace CASA Program IncMaysville, KY$206,325442023
CASA of Graves County & Southwest Ky IncMayfield, KY$199,903442023
CASA By the Lakes IncMurray, KY$199,227442023
Tri-County CASA IncLeitchfield, KY$191,168442023
CASA of the Lincoln Trail IncBardstown, KY$169,025442023
Misc Grants to Local ProgramsVarious, KY$164,815332023
CASA of Northeast Ky IncCattlettsburg, KY$140,664442023
Boone County CASABurlington, KY$126,050332022
Gateway CASA IncMorehead, KY$82,830112023
CASA of Carroll Grant and Owen CountiesOwenton, KY$75,000222021
C a S a Program for Bullitt County IncShepherdsvlle, KY$74,405222021
Judis Place for Kids IncPikeville, KY$61,775222021

25 of 26 (96%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 of 26 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Crime & Legal
8 orgs
Human Services
6 orgs
Civil Rights
4 orgs

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202023$1,061,419$41,125
202124$1,025,733$39,412
202222$1,917,696$69,000
202322$2,099,843$78,200

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

Lexington, KY
$605K
Louisville, KY
$535K
Bowling Green, KY
$362K
Hazard, KY
$330K
Danville, KY
$303K
Edgewood, KY
$297K
Paducah, KY
$283K
Richmond, KY
$273K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

The Whas Crusade for Children Inc8 shared recipientsHonorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc6 shared recipientsNational Court Appointed Special Advocate Association5 shared recipientsLg&e and Ku Foundation Inc4 shared recipientsUnited Way of the Bluegrass Inc3 shared recipientsBlue Grass Community Foundation Inc2 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,200 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Kentucky.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Kentucky CASA Network Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 18 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 4 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 1640 Lyndon Farm Court Suite 108, Louisville, KY, 40223.

EIN 47-2993676 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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