Opportunity Overview
Open now. The CommonSpirit – Legacy Foundation of Kentuckiana is accepting Letters of Interest for its Spring 2027 grant cycle. The LOI window opened September 1, 2026 and closes October 31, 2026. The Foundation states that applicants will be notified of the LOI outcome no later than November 30, 2026, with invited full proposals due January 8, 2027.
Funding
The Foundation states that it primarily makes grants in the range of $25,000-$250,000, with the majority of grants above $50,000. This is not presented as a universal minimum or maximum. The official materials do not publish a mandatory matching-funds percentage, so Atlas does not infer one.
Eligibility and Geography
Eligible applicants must be 501(c)(3) organizations in good standing with the IRS and must serve vulnerable populations in one or more of the Foundation’s six-county service area: Jefferson, Shelby, Bullitt, Nelson, and Hardin counties in Kentucky, or Clark County in Indiana. The Foundation notes that organizations whose leadership is not physically located in the service region should contact staff to confirm eligibility.
Allowable Support and Exclusions
The Foundation provides capital, programmatic, and general operating funding. It does not fund long-term debt financing, endowments, re-granting projects, or local chapters of national organizations.
Health and Strategic Fit
The Foundation’s purpose is to cultivate healthy communities for all, especially people who are vulnerable, and its mission centers on improving health while advancing social justice. That makes this a strong Kentucky community-health and human-services opportunity for qualifying nonprofits in the covered counties.
Atlas Opportunity Score: 91/100. The opportunity offers substantial private-foundation funding, broad support types, a clear healthcare and community-health mission, and a defined regional service area. The principal current verification gap is the absence of a published clock time and time zone for the October 31 LOI deadline.
N9+ Fit: 32/100, conditional. Capital and programmatic support could potentially accommodate health-service technology when it is integral to an eligible nonprofit’s approved project, but the Foundation does not identify telehealth, remote physical examination, or medical devices as a stated priority. Do not force N9+ into a proposal.
QC Healthcare Fit: 48/100, conditional. The Foundation’s health mission and capital/programmatic flexibility may support qualifying healthcare-access or service-delivery projects, but applicant and project eligibility must be organization-specific.
Verification Hold
The official grants and Grant Seekers pages publish an October 31, 2026 LOI deadline but do not publish an exact cutoff clock time or time zone. Under Kentucky lane controls, applicant-specific ORIGINAL outreach remains on hold until the deadline cutoff is authoritatively resolved.
Next Action
Screen eligible 501(c)(3) organizations serving vulnerable populations in the five Kentucky counties for strong health, healthcare-access, human-services, housing, behavioral-health, or other mission-aligned projects. Before any ORIGINAL outreach, verify the authoritative business Contact, Email_Opt_Out status, permanent hard-bounce state, and prior original-outreach/send history, and confirm the exact October 31 submission cutoff.
Official sources: Grant Seekers, Grants, FAQ, and About.