Thomas Logan Family Foundation Inc.

Thomas Logan Family Foundation Inc. is a small, closed, family-directed private foundation in Henderson, Kentucky, with $5.06M in assets (FY2023) and no paid staff — all four officers (Thomas B. Logan MD, President; Mark B. Logan MD, Trustee; Jo Logan, Vice President; Scott Logan, Secretary/Treasurer) report $0 compensation in every filing year on record, indicating a purely volunteer, family-run vehicle rather than a professionally staffed grantmaking institution. The foundation's own IRS data marks it `preselected_only`, and independent databases (Instrumentl, Grantmakers.io, Cause IQ) corroborate that it does not accept unsolicited funding requests — there is no open call for proposals, no published RFP, and no application form. The only concrete grantee data available shows 100% of tracked giving (three gifts totaling $124,473, averaging $41,491 each) going to a single recipient: First Methodist Church in Henderson, KY, categorized simply as "GIFT." That concentration, combined with the shared Logan surname across the entire board and the Henderson, KY location matching the family's home base, strongly suggests this foundation functions as a personal charitable-giving vehicle tied to the Logan family's own community, faith, and philanthropic relationships — not a diversified, sector-wide grantmaking program. For most nonprofits without a pre-existing relationship to the Logan family or a direct tie to Henderson's First Methodist Church community, there is no realistic unsolicited pathway into this foundation's giving. Organizations that do have a genuine local, personal, or institutional connection (e.g., other Henderson-area civic, health, or faith organizations the Logan family is personally involved with, given Thomas and Mark Logan's MD credentials) should pursue warm introductions rather than cold outreach — a personal letter or introduction through a shared board member, physician colleague, or church contact is far more likely to succeed than a formal proposal. First-time approaches should be modest in scope and framed as continuing an existing community relationship rather than proposing a new multi-year partnership, since the foundation's own disbursement pattern shows no evidence of graduated LOI-to-full-proposal-to-site-visit cultivation typical of larger institutional funders.

Grant disbursements have been small and highly volatile year to year: $75,000 (FY2019), $85,000 (FY2020), $110,073 (FY2021), $7,200 (FY2022), and $0 (FY2023) in grants_paid — a nearly 100% swing from the FY2021 peak to nothing paid out two years later. Total giving (which includes any non-grant charitable disbursements) followed a similar arc: $75,445 → $89,016 → $124,584 → $49,983 → $41,923 over the same five years. At the grantee level, the only itemized data available covers three gifts totaling $124,473 (average $41,491, all in Kentucky) to a single recipient, First Methodist Church of Henderson — there is no evidence in the record of a diversified grantee portfolio or multiple program areas despite NTEE/database tags suggesting Education, Philanthropy/Grantmaking, and Professional Societies as nominal focus categories. Asset growth has outpaced giving: total assets rose from $2.25M (FY2019) to $5.06M (FY2023), driven substantially by a single large contribution of $1,574,728 received in FY2021 and by strong net investment income ($470,072 in FY2021, $638,269 in FY2022, both years exceeding the amount actually granted out). Reported income was $546,241 against total assets of just over $5M, implying a payout well under the 5% minimum-distribution norm for private foundations in years like FY2022–FY2023, when combined giving fell to $49,983 and $41,923 respectively against a $5M+ asset base. In short: this is not a foundation with a stable programmatic budget grantseekers can plan around — funding levels appear to track family decisions and available cash rather than a fixed annual grants budget, and the most recent filing on record (FY2023) shows zero grants actually paid out.

All five peer foundations sit within roughly $5,000 of Thomas Logan's $5.06M asset base and share the same "Philanthropy & Grantmaking" NTEE classification, and — notably — none of the five has a public website on file, matching the pattern seen here of a lapsed/unreachable web presence. This asset-matched peer set is characteristic of small, single-family foundations nationwide: minimal public disclosure, no dedicated program staff, and giving that is typically closed or relationship-based rather than open to competitive applications, so grantseekers should expect the same preselected-only dynamic across this entire cohort rather than treating Thomas Logan as an outlier.

No news coverage, press releases, or public announcements specific to Thomas Logan Family Foundation Inc. were found for 2025-2026; the foundation does not appear to generate media coverage, consistent with its profile as an unstaffed, closed family vehicle rather than an actively communicating institutional funder. Search results repeatedly surfaced the unrelated (and far larger) Jonathan Logan Family Foundation of California — a journalism and civil-liberties funder that announced a three-year, $600,000 grant to the First Amendment Coalition in January 2025 — which should not be confused with this Henderson, KY foundation despite the similar name. The most concrete recent activity signal comes from the foundation's own Form 990 filing history: grants paid dropped to $7,200 in FY2022 and to $0 in FY2023, down sharply from $110,073 in FY2021, even as total assets held steady around $5.06M-$5.14M across the same period. No leadership or governance changes were identified — the same four Logan family members (Thomas B. Logan MD as President, Mark B. Logan MD as Trustee, Jo Logan as Vice President, and Scott Logan as Secretary/Treasurer) have occupied every officer and trustee seat across all filing years in the record, all uncompensated. The foundation's website, thomaslogan.org, failed to resolve during this research (DNS lookup failure), suggesting the domain has lapsed or was never actively maintained as a public-facing grants site, despite being the website of record in IRS filings.

There is effectively no conventional application process to advise on: the foundation's own data marks it `preselected_only`, its `application_instructions` field is empty, and it has no grants page, application form URL, or published deadline. Independent funder databases (Instrumentl, Grantmakers.io) explicitly confirm it "does not accept unsolicited requests for funds." Given that, the realistic strategy is relationship-based, not proposal-based: 1) Confirm any existing tie between your organization and Henderson, Kentucky, or the Logan family specifically — the only documented grantee (First Methodist Church, Henderson) suggests faith-community and hometown ties drive giving decisions. 2) If you or a board member has a personal or professional connection to Thomas B. Logan MD, Mark B. Logan MD, Jo Logan, or Scott Logan (e.g., through medicine, since two officers hold MD credentials, or through Henderson civic/church circles), pursue a warm introduction rather than a cold mailing — this is a family that has never taken officer compensation and appears to run the foundation personally rather than through a program office. 3) Do not submit to a web portal or online form — none exists, and the listed website domain is currently unreachable; instead, direct any correspondence to the IRS-of-record mailing address (1000 Craig Dr, Henderson, KY 42420, c/o Thomas B. Logan). 4) Keep any outreach modest and locally framed — the grant history shows amounts in the $7,200-$124,584 range per year, concentrated on a single beneficiary, not large multi-year institutional commitments. 5) Be aware that FY2023 shows $0 in grants paid, the most recent data point available, so funding availability in any given year cannot be assumed even for known relationships. 6) Common mistake to avoid: treating this as a peer of larger, similarly-named foundations (e.g., Jonathan Logan Family Foundation) that do run active, publicized grant programs — conflating the two wastes outreach effort on a funder with a fundamentally different, closed model.