Kentucky Civic Engagement Table Inc
Louisville, KY · EIN 83-2413836. Reported 65 grants totalling $1,204,897 to 31 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Kentucky Civic Engagement Table Inc, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S21) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 31 distinct organizations, with 12% 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.
- How much its list changes. 62% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,500. Half of what it reported fell between $9,500 and $23,500; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $63,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc | Hazard, KY | $148,500 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Showing Up for Racial Justice Education Fund Inc | Atlanta, GA | $131,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Life Coach Each One Teach One Reent | Louisville, KY | $127,625 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mayfield Minority Enrichment Corp | Mayfield, KY | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Canopy Young Adult Community House | Lexington, KY | $70,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Fairness Education Fund Inc | Louisville, KY | $58,000 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Louisville Urban League | Louisville, KY | $55,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Agenda for Regained Empowerment | Bowling Green, KY | $50,750 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network Inc | Winchester, KY | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Change Today Change Tomorrow Inc | Louisville, KY | $48,750 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Kentucky YMCA Youth Association | Frankfort, KY | $48,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The League of Women Voters of Kentucky Inc | None, KY | $46,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Civiclex Incorporated | Lexington, KY | $43,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Office of Kentucky Legal Services Programs Inc | Lexington, KY | $40,972 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Planned Parenthood Great Northwest Hawaii Alaska Indiana & Ky Inc | Seattle, WA | $27,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Voices of Community Activists & Leaders-Vocal-Ny-Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New Americans Initiative Inc | Louisville, KY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kentucky YMCA Youth Association | Frankfort, KY | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Appalshop Inc | Jenkins, KY | $16,250 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Opencollective Foundation | Covina, CA | $15,300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Americana Community Center Inc | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc | Lexington, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chad Lake Foundation Inc | Horse Branch, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Live the Proof Inc | Franklin, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Appalachian Research & Defense Fund of Ky Inc | Prestonsburg, KY | $8,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Western Kentucky Refugee Mutual Assistance Society Inc | Bowling Green, KY | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Zerov Inc | Frankfort, KY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Appalachian Citizens Law Center Inc | Whitesburg, KY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kentuckians for the Commonwealth Inc | London, KY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kentucky Health Justice Network Inc | Louisville, KY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Our Commonwealth Inc | Bardstown, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
18 of 31 (58%) 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Life Coach Each One Teach One Reent
focused on reaching people with felonies - Showing Up for Racial Justice Educa
Rowan Co Listening Project - Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network
REGRANT TO KENTUCKY STUDENT ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION, FISCALLY SPONSORED BY LIVELIHOOD KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE NETWORK: GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT FOR BASE-BUILDING WORK - Canopy Young Adult Community House
GRANT TO KENTUCKY TENANTS, FISCALLY SPONSORED BY CANOPY YOUNG ADULT COMMUNITY HOUSE: GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT FOR BASE-BUILDING WORK - Civiclex
NON-PARTISAN CANDIDATE MEET AND GREET; VOTER EDUCATION AND REGISTRATION TABLING EVENTS; CANVASSING; PRINTING LITERATURE, NON-PARTISAN ELECTION AND CANDIDATE GUIDE IN TWO LANGUAGES; AND HOLDING COMMUNITY EVENTS - League of Women Voters of Kentucky Education Fund Inc
CANVASSING, LITERATURE PRINTING, MAIL, TEXTING, AND STAFF TIME
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 27 of 31 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 12 | $145,000 | $8,500 |
| 2022 | 24 | $524,875 | $19,000 |
| 2023 | 19 | $377,522 | $17,000 |
| 2024 | 10 | $157,500 | $16,750 |
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
84% of its giving went to organizations in Kentucky. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Kentucky.
- 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 Civic Engagement Table Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 12 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: Po Box 1436, Louisville, KY, 40201.
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