JustFundKY is proud to announce the 2026 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
$3000 to stage Casa Valentina and Jeffrey
$1100 for LGBT books and shelving
$1200 for uplifting LGBTQ+ stories
$500 for outreach at Kentucky Pride Festivals
$3400 for Pride Festival expenses
$3750 for summer camp for LGBT teens
$1750 for lamp-post banners
The Carnegie Visual & Performing Arts Center
$2000 to stage La Cage Aux Folles
Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning
$3900 to support the Queer Literary Hoedown
$1500 for outreach to LGBT youth
$2500 for an exhibit panel displaying LGBTQ Kentucky history
$2000 for pride expenses
$3500 for festival expenses
$3240 for an LGBT poetry series
$350 for an interfaith network supporting trans people
Kentucky Health Justice Network
$3946 to support community pride outreach
$2150 for Latinx Pride
$500 for pride yard signs
$4500 for a public leadership summit
$1600 for Pride Center events
$5000 for rural outreach and development
$2800 for Pride Festival expenses
$4600 for gender affirming resources
$300 for LGBT workshops at Midsummer Market
$3000 for Pride Festival expenses
$3900 for Pride Festival expenses
$1000 for community outreach
$500 for community building
$3595 for Pride Festival expenses.
$3000 to stage Josephine and the Amazing Technicolor Lacefront
$5000 to cover stories in Eastern Kentucky
Queer Student Collective UK
$3860 for conference support
$3500 for Pride Festival expenses
$5000 for Pride Festival expenses
$4000 to stage Rent