Funding search · EIN 455631503 · Prospect, KY

The Whippoorwill Family Foundation

Name: The Whippoorwill Family Foundation grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

113
grants reported: $2.8M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $5,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

New Jersey Audubon Society3 grants · $375,000
Louisville Orchestra3 grants · $370,936
Metro United Way3 grants · $300,000
Yew Dell Gardens3 grants · $252,500
Louisville Ballet3 grants · $220,000
Waterfront Botanical Gardens3 grants · $215,000
Evolve502 Scholars Foundation3 grants · $150,000
The Nature Conservancy3 grants · $106,000
Fund for the Arts3 grants · $90,000
Louisville Urban League3 grants · $75,000

Giving over time

$938,796

2022

$948,132

2023

$886,776

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 113 grants.

$172,696
Louisville Orchestra · Louisville, KY · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$127,500
Yew Dell Gardens · Crestwood, KY · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$125,000
New Jersey Audubon Society · Bernardsville, NJ · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$125,000
New Jersey Audubon Society · Bernardsville, NJ · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$125,000
New Jersey Audubon Society · Bernardsville, NJ · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$118,600
Louisville Orchestra · Louisville, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$117,500
Yew Dell Gardens · Crestwood, KY · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$110,000
Louisville Ballet · Louisville, KY · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$105,000
Waterfront Botanical Gardens · Louisville, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$105,000
Waterfront Botanical Gardens · Louisville, KY · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$100,000
Metro United Way · Louisville, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$100,000
Metro United Way · Louisville, KY · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$100,000
Metro United Way · Louisville, KY · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$79,640
Louisville Orchestra · Louisville, KY · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$70,000
American Friends of Canadian Nature · Buffalo, NY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$60,000
Louisville Ballet · Louisville, KY · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$51,500
University of Louisville Foundation · Louisville, KY · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$50,000
Evolve502 Scholars Foundation · Louisville, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$50,000
Louisville Ballet · Louisville, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$50,000
Evolve502 Scholars Foundation · Louisville, KY · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$50,000
Evolve502 Scholars Foundation · Louisville, KY · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$36,000
The Nature Conservancy · Lexington, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$35,000
The Nature Conservancy · Lexington, KY · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$35,000
The Nature Conservancy · Lexington, KY · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$30,000
Fund for the Arts · Louisville, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$30,000
Fund for the Arts · Louisville, KY · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$30,000
Fund for the Arts · Louisville, KY · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$28,000
Gilda'S Club · Louisville, KY · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$27,000
Earth and Spirit Center · Louisville, KY · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$27,000
Earth and Spirit Center · Louisville, KY · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$25,000
Canopy Certified · Louisville, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$25,000
Louisville Urban League · Louisville, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$25,000
Louisville Urban League · Louisville, KY · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$25,000
Louisville Urban League · Louisville, KY · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$25,000
Philips Exeter Academy · Exeter, NH · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$23,821
Musee De Charlevoix · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$22,392
Derby City Chamber Music Festival · Prospect, KY · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$20,000
Gilda'S Club · Louisville, KY · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$17,500
Bernheim Forest and Arboretum · Clermont, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$15,000
Speed Art Museum · Louisville, KY · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$10,000
Gilda'S Club of Kentuckiana · Louisville, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$10,000
Louisville Public Media · Louisville, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$10,000
Speed Art Museum · Louisville, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$10,000
Louisville Public Media · Louisville, KY · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$10,000
Council for Canadian American Relations · New York, NY · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$10,000
Speed Art Museum · Louisville, KY · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$8,543
Centre Ecologique De Port-Au-Saumon · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$7,500
Yew Dell Gardens · Crestwood, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$7,500
Bernheim Forest and Arboretum · Clermont, KY · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$7,500
Bernheim Forest and Arboretum · Clermont, KY · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$7,400
Council for Canadian American Relations · New York, NY · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$5,000
Actors Theatre of Louisville · Louisville, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$5,000
Derby City Chamber Music Festival · Prospect, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$5,000
Earth and Spirit Center · Louisville, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$5,000
Filson Historical Society · Louisville, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$5,000
Friends of Mammoth Cave National Park · Mammoth Cave, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$5,000
Milton Academy · Milton, MA · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$5,000
Philips Exeter Academy · Exeter, NH · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$5,000
University of Louisville Foundation · Louisville, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$5,000
Actors Theatre of Louisville · Louisville, KY · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$5,000
Filson Historical Society · Louisville, KY · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$5,000
Milton Academy · Milton, MA · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$5,000
National Catholic Community Foundation · Crownsville, MD · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$5,000
Philips Exeter Academy · Exeter, NH · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$5,000
Practice Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$5,000
Sunflower Community Fund · Celebration, FL · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$5,000
University of Louisville Foundation · Louisville, KY · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$5,000
Actors Theatre of Louisville · Louisville, KY · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$5,000
Filson Historical Society · Louisville, KY · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$5,000
Kentucky Performing Arts Innovation Fund · Louisville, KY · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$5,000
Milton Academy · Milton, MA · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$5,000
Practice Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$5,000
Reckoning · Louisville, KY · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$5,000
Waterfront Botanical Gardens · Louisville, KY · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$3,060
Practice Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$3,000
Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$3,000
Louisville Public Media · Louisville, KY · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$3,000
Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$2,600
Owsley Brown Frazier Historical Arms Museum Foundation · Louisville, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$2,500
Commonwealth Fund for Ket · Lexington, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$2,500
Somes-Meynell Wildlife Sanctuary · Mt Desert, ME · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$2,500
Commonwealth Fund for Ket · Lexington, KY · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$2,500
Noulou Chamber Player · Louisville, KY · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$2,500
Somes-Meynell Wildlife Sanctuary · Mt Desert, ME · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$2,500
Commonwealth Fund for Ket · Lexington, KY · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$2,500
Somes-Meynell Wildlife Sanctuary · Mt Desert, ME · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$2,000
Kentucky Opera · Louisville, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$2,000
Kentucky Science Center · Louisville, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$2,000
Maine Coast Heritage Trust · Topsham, ME · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$2,000
Kentucky Opera · Louisville, KY · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$2,000
Kentucky Science Center · Louisville, KY · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$2,000
Maine Coast Heritage Trust · Topsham, ME · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$2,000
National Compassion Fund · Alexandria, VA · 2023
For general charitable purposes
$2,000
Kentucky Opera · Louisville, KY · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$2,000
Kentucky Science Center · Louisville, KY · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$2,000
Maine Coast Heritage Trust · Topsham, ME · 2022
For general charitable purposes
$1,902
Music for a Purpose · Louisville, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$1,000
Kentucky Aviation Historical Society · Louisville, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$1,000
Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project · Louisville, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes
$1,000
Kentucky Shakespeare · Louisville, KY · 2024
For general charitable purposes

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