JustFundKY is proud to announce the 2025 grant recipients of the Cliff Todd Endowment! This year’s submissions show innovative adaptations to a chilly political climate for LGBTQ people in Kentucky.
ActOut Theatre Group
$3200 to stage Angels in America
Ashland Pride
$3000 for festival security
Boone County Pride
$3000 for festival expenses
Camp Beacon
$2750 for summer camp for LGBT teens
Capital Pride KY
$1850 for a LGBT film festival
Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning
$3000 for the book giveaway at the Queer Literary Hoedown
Children’s Law Center
$750 for printing costs
Faulkner Morgan Archive
$2400 for vinyl banners to display in downtown Lexington
First Baptist Church of Morehead
$3600 for a LGBT internship program
Frazier History Museum
$2500 for their Love & Marriage series
Henderson KY Pride
$2500 for festival expenses
Hoba House
$4126 for their hands-on Queer Visions: Creating Art through LGBTQIA+ History project
Imperial Court of Kentucky
$2500 support for the documentary An Afternoon with the Empress of Kentucky
Kentucky Humanities Council
$4000 for headliners Bob the Drag Queen and Matteo Lane at the book festival
Kentucky Health Justice Network
$4306 to support trans health advocacy
La Casita Center
$2150 for Latinx Pride
Pride of London
$1470 for festival expenses
Louisville Youth Group
$2000 for rural outreach and development
Media Working Group
$2500 for support of the documentary Native Daughter
Paducah Pride United Together
$3000 for festival security
Pandora Productions
$2100 for community presentations of The Holiday Play
PFLAG Somerset
$1400 for Pride Prom
Pikeville Pride
$3000 for festival expenses.
Queer Kentucky
$5000 for their Breaking News program
RADIOLEX
$2000 for in-depth conversations on issues facing the LGBTQ+ community
Richmond Pride
$3000 for festival expenses
three witches Shakespeare
$925 for Shakesqueer
Trans Parent Lexington
$850 for their 2025 picnic
Voices Amplified
$500 for I Am What I Am Cabaret
You Deserve/ MoreLove
$3485 for gender-affirming products and community outreach