May 6, 2025
Contacts:
Brandl Skirvin, Board President, JustFundKY president@JustFundKY.org
Bernadette Barton, Board Secretary, JustFundKY secretary@JustFundKY.org
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.
JustFundKY is a $2 million endowment that funds educational projects in Kentucky from Pikeville to Paducah. Since 2011, JustFundKY has granted $653,000 to 81 community organizations. In twelve years, we have touched every county in the commonwealth raising awareness of the issues impacting LGBTQ people and supporting projects that create a more just and joyful Kentucky.
This year we have awarded $76,862. In 2025, we honor MoreLove for their rural outreach to LGBT+ people in Eastern Kentucky as the Imperial Court of Kentucky grantee. This year’s grant recipients are:
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 about LGBTQ history
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 for documentary support of 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 Back to School Picnic
Voices Amplified, $500 for I Am What I Am Cabaret
You Deserve/ MoreLove, $3485 for gender-affirming products and community outreach
JustFundKY is proud to help transform the landscape of Kentucky to brighten the lives of its LGBTQ citizens. Learn more about JustFundKY at www.justfundky.org.