Opportunity Overview
The Fred R. & Opal S. Woosley Foundation, a Louisville-based private foundation, accepts unsolicited requests from qualifying charities. The Foundation’s latest IRS Form 990-PF application instructions establish an annual November 30 deadline. For the current cycle, Atlas treats November 30, 2026 as the controlling submission date. No exact clock time or time zone is published in the filing.
Eligible Applicants and Priorities
Applications are submitted by qualifying charities. The filing states that awards are primarily for assistance to people experiencing poverty, assistance for children, and school-related activities, while also stating that all submissions receive consideration. The public instructions do not establish a Kentucky-only eligibility restriction, but recent IRS-reported giving is strongly concentrated in Kentucky.
Funding
No universal maximum request amount or required cost share is published. IRS-derived 2025 grant data shows approximately $742,000 in grants across 46 reported awards, with individual disclosed awards reaching at least $35,000. Recent Kentucky recipients include Kids Center for Pediatric Therapies, Visually Impaired Preschool, Gilda’s Club, Little Sisters of the Poor, and Home of the Innocents. Historical award sizes are not applicant ceilings and do not guarantee a future award.
Application Process
The latest Form 990-PF instructions call for a letter from a qualifying charity. The letter need only state the organization’s purpose and provide a general explanation of how the requested funds would be used. The filing identifies Ford Klapheke Meyer, 231 S Fifth St, 2nd Floor, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, telephone 502-584-2134, as the application contact. No email submission address is stated in the filing. Applicants should verify delivery instructions immediately before submission.
Atlas Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score: 86/100. This is an active, relatively simple private-foundation opportunity with a current filing-based deadline, no published match requirement, and recent Kentucky health and disability-service grantees. The main limitations are the lack of a published applicant ceiling, detailed project-use rules, and a foundation-operated application portal.
N9+ Fit Score: 70/100 conditional. A legitimate applicant-led role for the Nonagon N9+ device and platform may exist where a qualifying pediatric, disability, elder-care, or other charitable healthcare organization has a documented project need for guided remote physical examinations, vitals, and telehealth-enabled clinical encounters that directly serves the Foundation’s charitable priorities. The public filing does not expressly identify medical equipment or telehealth as an eligible category, so Atlas must verify applicant-specific project fit before outreach and must not imply that N9+ is presumptively fundable.
Next Action
Identify a qualifying Kentucky nonprofit with a documented charitable-health project and confirmed fit to the Foundation’s stated priorities. Before any outreach, verify the organization’s current 501(c)(3) status, project need, intended use of funds, recipient contact, current submission instructions, and absence of prior Atlas outreach for the same opportunity.
Sources: IRS Form 990-PF data for EIN 61-1104319 as made available through ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer and IRS-derived filing services; Grant Ready Kentucky’s current opportunity listing for the 2026 cycle.