Impact
Impact100 Louisville’s goal is to provide high-impact grants that reach under-served populations, support nonprofits, and highlight unmet needs in our community. Through grant-making, we invest in nonprofits financially and by partnering with them to familiarize ourselves with their programs, services, and the communities they serve. In return, our partners assure us our process allows them to think bigger and more strategically about the work they do and the impact they have.
See our grants by year: 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020
2025 Grant Recipients
In 2025, Impact100 Louisville was able to give $530,000 in grants to the local community, including five $100,000 Impact grants:
Louisville Academy of Music
AWARD: $100,000
PROJECT: Music for Everyone
PROJECT IMPACT: With Impact100 funding, the Louisville Academy of Music will broaden and deepen its Music for Everyone program: LAM will expand community music programs in the West End; launch after-school music programs for the South End; and further develop dynamic, affordable community-based music lessons for traditionally underserved neighborhoods and organizations.
Louisville Lightning
AWARD: $100,000
PROJECT: Adapted Sports for All
PROJECT IMPACT: With funding from Impact100, the adapted sports program can expand and improve its offerings and reduce financial barriers for families. The grant will support the launch of a power wheelchair soccer team, enable the first full season of wheelchair tennis, and fund the purchase of adapted track and field equipment, archery equipment, and uniforms for a loan closet, thus ensuring all students have necessary attire.
New Americans Initiative
AWARD: $100,000
PROJECT: Program Support
PROJECT IMPACT: Impact100 funding will allow NAI to increase the number of educational sessions, as well as green card and citizenship workshops that include free, limited legal representation, and support investments in staff development, volunteer retention, and the implementation of streamlined systems to improve the consistency and efficiency of services offered.
Steam Exchange Community Arts Center
AWARD: $100,000
PROJECT: Afterschool Art/STEAM classes
PROJECT IMPACT: Funding from Impact100 will help enroll an additional 30 young people, expand afterschool classes and summer programs, increase staff and intern hours, hire eight additional visiting artists and Steam Exchange alumni to support increased programming, and restore the summer internship program.
Wellspring
AWARD: $100,000
PROJECT: Adult Mental Health Crisis Stabilization
PROJECT IMPACT: With Impact100 funding Wellspring will improve two Crisis Stabilization Units (CSU) providing 24/7 residential psychiatric care to around 350 adults annually. These units are the only facilities in the area offering acute behavioral healthcare in a homelike setting. The upgrades to shared spaces — community rooms, dining areas, and art therapy rooms — will directly improve the recovery experience.
2025 Merit Grant Recipients
In addition to the Impact grants, we gave a $10,000 Merit grant to each of the following organizations:
2024 Grant Recipients
In 2024, Impact100 Louisville was able to give $529,000 in grants to the local community, including five $100,000 Impact grants:
CASA of the River Region (CASA)
AWARD: $100,000
PROJECT: Advocacy Academy & Support Program
PROJECT IMPACT: Impact100 funds would ensure CASA can raise awareness of the growing need for new volunteers and for our mission - to ensure the community’s most vulnerable children have access to academic, medical and support services to overcome trauma and improve their well-being.
Granny’s Birth Initiative
AWARD: $100,000
PROJECT: Granny's Hub
PROJECT IMPACT: Granny’s Hub, an initiative combining new and existing programs for new mothers and their infants, will help family members work together as a team at home.
Imagination Library of Louisville
AWARD: $100,000
PROJECT: Program Support
PROJECT IMPACT: A grant from Impact100 would allow the Imagination Library to continue to serve children countywide and to grow the enrollment, projected to be 50% of Jefferson County children under five by the end of 2025.
Lincoln Foundation
AWARD: $100,000
PROJECT: College Transition Enrichment Program
PROJECT IMPACT: The Impact100 grant will allow CTEP to hire an additional counselor and expand from serving 160 college students to more than 300 for the next three years.
West End School
AWARD: $100,000
PROJECT: Music Program
PROJECT IMPACT: The grant will support increased individual and small group instruction for students in the West End School’s Music Program.
2024 Merit Grant Recipients
In addition to the Impact grants, we gave a $9,667 Merit grant to each of the following organizations:
2023 Grant Recipients
In 2023, Impact100 Louisville gave $558,000 in grants to the local community, including five $100,000 Impact grants:
Backside Learning Center
AWARD: $100,000
PROJECT: Early Childhood Development and Education Program
PROJECT IMPACT: Hiring a coordinator for the new Early Childhood Development & Education Program will allow the BLC to address an acute need within the community: educating parents of children ages 0-4 about the importance of early childhood development and education and encouraging them to enroll in the Program.
Blueprint 502 (formerly YouthBuild)
AWARD: $100,000
PROJECT: Smoketown Family Center
PROJECT IMPACT: The grant will go to support the construction of the Smoketown Community Center, an important neighborhood amenity that will serve youth and young adults in Smoketown and the surrounding area.
DELTA Foundation Inc.
AWARD: $100,000
PROJECT: Newburg Expansion
PROJECT IMPACT: DELTA Foundation proposes to expand its after-school programming to the Newburg neighborhood. Currently, Newburg has only one after-school program for the entire zip code. In addition to the enrichment and academic programming, youth will benefit from optional, free, twice weekly individual and/or group therapy sessions on-site.
Neighborhood House
AWARD: $100,000
PROJECT: Reconnecting to Disconnected Youth Ages 16-24
PROJECT IMPACT: To best meet the needs of adolescents ages 16-24, we propose hiring a Youth Advocate, trained in coaching skills, to be a frontline staff person focused on disconnected youth. This Advocate would meet youth where they are—from basketball courts to front porches. They would also organize events at Neighborhood House to build social connections with young adults, encouraging them to enroll in coaching and meet their individual goals.
Uniting Partners for Women and Children (UP)
AWARD: $100,000
PROJECT: Expanding Services for Women and Children Experiencing Houselessness
PROJECT IMPACT: Increasing drop-in service hours by 30%, increasing operations space, and targeting services for seniors.
2023 Merit Grant Recipients
In addition to the Impact grants, we gave a $11,600 Merit grant to each of the following organizations:
2022 Grant Recipients
In 2022, Impact100 Louisville gave $450,000 in grants to the local community, including:
Educational Justice, Inc.
AWARD: $100,000
PROJECT: Educational Justice Activist Program
PROJECT IMPACT: The Education Justice Activist Program provides free tutoring to under-resourced youth and engages high-achieving high school students as tutors and mentors to bridge the gap of educational inequity.
Hildegard House Incorporated
AWARD: $100,000
PROJECT: Hildegard House Expansion Project
PROJECT IMPACT: A meaningful life and a peaceful, dignified death for at least 68 more people each year.
The Louisville Leopard Percussionists
AWARD: $100,000
PROJECT: New Instruments, Expanded Programming
PROJECT IMPACT: With the suite of instruments funded by this grant, we can double the number of children we serve each year and introduce a new academic program, Leopard Learners.
Smoketown Family Wellness Center
AWARD: $100,000
PROJECT: Hiring a Community Health Worker
PROJECT IMPACT: Community Health Workers improve health well beyond the doctor's visit, building trust and connecting families to resources.Community Health Workers improve health well beyond the doctor's visit, building trust and connecting families to resources.
2022 Merit Grant Recipients
In addition to the Impact grants, we gave a $16,666 Merit grant to each of the following organizations:
2021 Grant Recipients
In our second year, we gave $315,000 in Impact grants to our community:
DeCode Project
AWARD: $105,000
PROJECT: King Elementary Literacy Program
PROJECT IMPACT: Closing the opportunity gap by providing structured literacy instruction to elementary students with learning differences and financial barriers.
La Casita Center
AWARD: $105,000
PROJECT: Expand, upgrade, and improve the Center‘s on-site kitchen and food pantry facilities
PROJECT IMPACT: The investment from Impact100 will go towards the physical upgrades to kitchen and pantry facilities to ensure proper handling and storage of food.
Park Alliance of Louisville
AWARD: $105,000
PROJECT: Maple Street Park Nature Playground and Outdoor Classroom
PROJECT IMPACT: Filling a critical gap in access to outdoor space for 20 Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS).
2020 Grant Recipients
In our first year, Impact100 Louisville gave $206,000 to the Louisville community:
Blueprint 502 (Formerly YouthBuild)
AWARD: $103,000
PROJECT: Smoketown Hopebox Laundromat + Community Space project
PROJECT IMPACT: The renovation of vacant properties into a local laundromat and meeting/community spaces will provide much needed amenities and will enable the development of programs to stimulate the Smoketown economy.
Louisville Urban League
AWARD: $103,000
PROJECT: Sports and Learning complex
PROJECT IMPACT: enhance and expand the Urban League’s youth programming into the Sports and Learning complex as it opens in 2021.