2006 Year In Review

The Foundation approved 48 grants in the calendar year 2006 totaling $20,002,324. Forty percent of all grants were awarded to non-profit organizations in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Thirty-six percent of all grants awarded were for construction or renovation projects and 27% were awarded for college scholarship endowment. Percentage break out by program area was Civic Affairs – 7%, Health - 25%, Education - 54%, Human Services - 9%, and Culture & Humanities - 5%. Reflected in the 2006 figure was the second of three $5 million grants payable to the University of Louisville’s James Graham Brown Cancer Center which was approved in 2004.

In higher education, the Foundation increased endowment support by awarding challenge grants to the James Graham Brown Scholarship Endowment funds at Bellarmine University, Centre College, and Kentucky Wesleyan College. The foundation also awarded challenge grants to encourage increased giving for general endowment support at Thomas More College, Alice Lloyd College, and Spalding University. Additionally, the Foundation established and endowed the Stanley Smith Dickson Professorship in Equine Science at the University of Kentucky in honor retiring trustee, Stanley S. Dickson.

The Foundation awarded a grant to support the Salvation Army’s efforts to expand and renovate The Center of Hope, Boys & Girls Club, Corps Community Center and Camp Paradise Valley. Other human services grants were awarded toward capital projects to support Brooklawn, Inc., Portland Promise, Dare to Care, and the Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children.