Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation Grant

Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation Fund
Amount: US $5,000 - US $25,000
Last Updated: February 24, 2026

Summary

The Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation Grant supports non-profit organizations serving Kentucky residents, focusing on enhancing social welfare for those facing economic hardships. Established in 1948, it prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion while targeting rural areas and communities in need. Grants are awarded for program expansion or new initiatives that promote self-help and training. Eligible applicants must be IRS-approved charitable organizations based in Kentucky, ensuring their projects align with the foundation's core values.

Overview

Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation The Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation is an independent charitable foundation that provides grants to non-profit organizations serving Kentucky residents. Purpose The Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation (KSWF) was established in 1948 to improve the quality of life and opportunity among Kentuckians who experience diminished economic opportunities, whether due to poverty, poor health, disability, or inequality. The Board of Trustees is dedicated to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB). Further, KSWF will continue to achieve a future that is more diverse, equitable, and inclusive for all. We embrace access to success and will treat all with fairness and dignity including, but not limited to all families in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The expectation of the KSWF grant recipients is to share our core values in their agency and work. Targeting our grants to rural areas, small towns, and geographic areas of special need, KSWF seeks to promote efficient and effective social welfare organizations and methods for providing “self-help and training.” KSWF fulfills this purpose through monetary grants to established non-profit organizations that will: “enlarge and broaden their scope of operation” and/ordevelop and implement “new projects to provide services which no agency, already in operation, is planned or equipped to extend.”

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. KSWF ONLY funds applications from agencies located in Kentucky.Your agency must be approved by the IRS as a tax-exempt charitable organization and you must supply us with a copy of your 501(c)(3) determination letter.Your application must be for expansion of existing programs or for new programming.We will want to see a description of how you plan to sustain your program expansion or new programming after you have invested KSWF funds in starting it.You must wait a minimum of two (2) grant cycles from when you received the last KSWF grant to apply for a new grant. The KSFW has two grant cycles per calendar year. One in the Spring and one in the Fall.

Ineligibility

The Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation will not provide grants toward capital campaigns, periodic funds appeals or for ongoing operational expenses.We do not fund agency/project salaries.