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Arts & Health Grants
Arts & Health
Who can apply: Open to artists and organizations working within arts and health. Requests are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Deadline: Reviewed on a rolling basis.
About Lexarts
LexArts is greater Lexington’s official local arts agency and United Arts Fund creating opportunities for quality arts experiences in central Kentucky through leadership, funding, advocacy, programming, and communication.
Focus Areas
arts educationvisual artsperforming artspublic artarts & healthcommunity arts developmentyouth artscapacity building / general operating support
Funding Style
general operating supportprogram supportcore capacity supportunrestricted/operational funding
About Lexarts
LexArts Inc. repeatedly backs core operating capacity at Lexington’s major arts institutions. In the recent grant list, Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra received $101,888 for program support in 2025, and Lexington Children’s Theatre received $100,000 for program support the same year. The pattern extends across several years: both organizations also appear in 2023 and 2024 with six-figure general operating support awards. That mix of program and operating support shows a funder that is not limited to project-only grants. The foundation’s giving also reaches the city’s broader arts infrastructure. Living Arts & Science Center appears multiple times in 2023 through 2025, including awards of $100,000, $85,000, and $75,000, while Carnegie Center for Literacy and Central Kentucky Youth Orchestra also recur in the recent-grants list. LexArts Inc. serves as Greater Lexington’s official local arts agency and United Arts Fund, and its grantmaking aligns with that role through arts education, visual arts, performing arts, public art, arts & health, community arts development, youth arts, and capacity-building support.
What Lexarts Funds
LexArts Inc. supports a mix of institutional stability and project-based arts work. For general operations, it gave $55,000 to Carnegie Center for Literacy in 2025 and the same amount in 2024, showing repeated support for organizational capacity. For arts education, Arts in Schools Impact Grants subsidize the cost of bringing arts organizations into Fayette County Public Schools. Its community-facing programming also includes the Community Arts Development Grants, which support regional artists and arts organizations through competitive, project-based awards reviewed in a public forum each year. The Arts & Health Grants add another small-scale channel, with awards of $0 to $1,000 for collaborations that connect the arts with health and wellness. Space to Create provides subsidized office or practice space for artists and arts organizations in Lexington and the Bluegrass region.
How Lexarts Gives
Typical award sizes cluster in the mid-thousands to mid-tens of thousands, with a p25 of $10,000, a median of $15,000, and a p75 of $25,543. The recent-grants list also includes repeated awards to the same organizations across 2023, 2024, and 2025, indicating ongoing relationships rather than one-off support. LexArts Inc. is a local funder, and its grantmaking appears to be rooted in unrestricted and operational support alongside program support and core capacity support. Several of its active grant programs accept unsolicited applications, and some awards can be paid as a lump sum or over time.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$511K
Total Assets
$3.1M
Total Revenue
$1.8M
Total Expenses
$2M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $26K, with a median of $15K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$15K
75th Percentile
$26K
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
AMELIA SWEETALL
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