Follow the money, they said. So we did.
Concerns of some University of Louisville supporters during the current crisis have included possible relationships of some UofL Trustees with the University of Kentucky. Those ties, based on their giving patterns, appear to be minimal at best.
Lifetime contributions to UofL from the trustees dwarf the giving to UK, with Louisville institution receiving a total $30.5 million in overall financial gifts as compared to $1.6 million to the Lexington school. That’s according to the responses of UofL and UK to open records requests from Card Game.
A request was submitted to the University of Kentucky Alumni Department and Office of Philanthropy following our recent publication of a list of trustee donations to UofL that prompted some concern about possible UK bias on the board.