Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Louisville, Kentucky

297
foundations with a Louisville address
$316.8M
grants paid, FY2022–FY2025
57
say they accept unsolicited
$10,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 297 foundations that gave a Louisville, Kentucky address on their tax filing — 271 private foundations and 26 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2022–FY2025. Together they paid out $316.8 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 57 of them (19%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Louisville foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 297 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 32 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in Louisville, Kentucky
Humana Foundation Inc$15.9M$15.9M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
James Graham Brown Foundation Inc$202,500$14.9M$450–$1.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Yum Brands Foundation Inc$10,000$10.3M$120–$4.3MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Brown-Forman Foundation$67,500$9.8M$25,000–$2MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Gheens Foundation Inc$25,000$6.3M$2,500–$400,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
C E and S Foundation Inc$45,000$4.5M$1,000–$1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Lg&e and Ku Foundation Inc$2,500$4.3M$100–$749,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Bridgestone Americas Trust Fund$3.2M$3.3M$3M–$3.3MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Price Foundation Inc$137,500$2M$1,660–$500,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Smith Brothers Family Foundation Inc$3,600$1.9M$100–$1.8MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Delta Dental of Kenucky Foundation Inc$20,800$1.8M$2,500–$1.8MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Irvin F & Alice S Etscorn$25,000$1.6M$3,000–$205,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Norton Foundation Inc$17,500$747,500$2,500–$70,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Fred R & Opal S Woosley Foundation$10,000$742,000$2,000–$35,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Tom Musselman Foundation Inc$7,500$739,482$50–$211,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Maclean Foundation Inc$6,000$671,632$6,000–$671,632FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Kentucky Foundation for Women Inc$49,973$444,848$6,000–$230,503FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Hearts Path Charitable Foundation Inc$20,000$444,000$2,000–$180,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
V V Cooke Foundation Corporation$2,750$377,750$250–$30,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Julia & Isadore Klein Family$1,375$374,965$50–$57,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Dunbar Foundation Inc$5,000$320,000$1,000–$30,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Jessie Barker McKellar Charitable Foundation$285,300$285,300—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Wood & Marie Hannah Foundation$10,000$256,860$2,500–$50,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Barr Foundation Inc$37,500$249,055$10,000–$50,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Nicklies Foundation Inc$3,000$231,500$250–$70,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.

272 more foundations — see all in Grantlas

Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2022–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.