Second Edition — In Partnership with Louisville Metro’s Office of Violence Prevention
The 2025–2026 Louisville Youth Fiscal and Resource Mapping Report is complete. McNary Group produced this report in partnership with Louisville Metro Government’s Office of Violence Prevention (OVP), building on the first edition published in 2021.
Fiscal mapping traces how public and private funding moves through a local landscape and captures who funds what, at what scale, and where the gaps are. This report drew on more than 30 in-depth interviews and surveys with nonprofit leaders, funders, government partners, elected officials, and young people themselves. A few findings that stood out:
- Louisville’s youth-serving funding ecosystem received a mean rating of 2.71 out of 5 from respondents – nearly unchanged from the 2021 baseline of 2.8. That the sector held steady at all during one of the most turbulent funding years in recent memory speaks to the resilience of the people doing this work.
- Across eight major private funders, approximately $20.3 million was directed toward youth-serving organizations in Louisville in 2024 – about 16% of their total combined giving. Funding was highly concentrated: the top 10 organizations received just over half of all dollars.
- The most consistently named unmet needs were mental health and social-emotional support, programs specifically for young people ages 18–24, housing stability, and organizational capacity for smaller, grassroots organizations.
The report also includes a companion interactive ArcGIS StoryMap developed by Dr. Abby Rudolph of Rudolph Storytelling & Data Strategies, LLC, which maps funding flows, program locations, and demographic data across Louisville’s youth-serving landscape. The StoryMap and the written report are designed to be read together.