Championing Community Voices and Catalyzing Impact
The Community Foundation of Louisville mobilizes people, networks, and capital to spark meaningful change in and beyond Louisville. Working with neighbors, changemakers, and community investors, we’re inspiring greater generosity to move us all forward.
While each of us can make a positive difference, together, we can do even more. By combining deep local knowledge, social impact experience, and investment excellence, we’re magnifying the community’s resources and relationships to amplify your impact.
Pathways to Heal Louisville
In the wake of recent tragic events, many in our community are asking what they can do to address the crisis of gun violence now. After speaking with survivors of gun violence and local nonprofit leaders, we heard that survivors and nonprofits are seriously under-resourced to sustain pathways to coping with mass casualty crimes.
Together with you, we can support recovery efforts from gun violence and activate our privilege to make possible short- and long-term solutions.
Get Involved!
See the good you sparked in 2022. Thanks to the support of generous donors, Give for Good, our community’s biggest day of online giving raised $8.1 million for over 550 local organizations in 2022. #SeeTheGood by viewing the impact report below.
The Community Foundation is one of the largest charitable foundations in Kentucky with nearly $800 million in assets and more than 2,200 charitable funds. Each fund is unique and defined exclusively by our community investors. We are committed to helping you achieve meaningful and measurable progress on the causes that matter most to you, whether that’s the arts, education, social and racial justice, social services, technology innovation, healthcare, or other areas of focus.
In 2022, in partnership with our donors, the Community Foundation made nearly 10,000 grants totaling more than $79 million, approximately 74% of which stayed in Kentucky and Southern Indiana to support local nonprofits where we work and live.
Community is the root of our name and the source of all we do. With your generosity - and all that it inspires - we’re able to advance the big ideas and bold actions necessary to move us all forward.
Inspiring for the Future
The story of the Community Foundation of Louisville continues to grow – from the many donors who believed in community philanthropy decades ago, to those who share their inspiring stories today, and to countless others who are dedicated to making an impact in our community through charitable giving.
The Story of the Community Foundation of Louisville Continues to Grow
Initiatives
A community that helps artists advance their careers by building business acumen. An initiative that equips nonprofit executives with high-level leadership skills. An unprecedented day of unity in the name of philanthropy. Those are just a few of the ways we’re transforming our community, one person and one gift at a time.
Community Foundation Blog
Gifts Distributed from the Love for Louisville Old National Bank and Chickasaw Park Survivor Funds
The Community Foundation of Louisville announced that the National Compassion Fund (NCF), the administrator of the Love for Louisville Old National Bank Survivors Fund and the Love for Louisville Chickasaw Park Surv… Continue Reading »
Meet 2023 Vogt Award Recipient, Gamerabble
Updated: September 18, 2023 Gamerabble Online e-sports gamers want to improve their skills but struggle to find the right resources that are free of negativity and bullying, according to Gamerabble Co-Founders Cec… Continue Reading »
Community Foundation of Louisville announces the 23rd Vogt Awards cohort
The Community Foundation of Louisville announced the recipients of its 23rd Vogt Invention and Innovation Awards. These six early-stage companies will receive $25,000 in non-dilutive grant funding and participation … Continue Reading »