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East Kentucky Power Cooperative Inc at a glance

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East Kentucky Power Cooperative Inc

East kentucky power cooperative exists to serve its member-owned cooperatives by safely delivering reliable, competitive and sustainable energy and related services.

$116k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$158kPublic Benefit$50kArts & Culture$40kCommunity Improvement$30kHealth$28kEnvironment$10k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $70,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $116,489 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $46,489 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
National Conference of State Legislatures$50,000
Kentucky Association for Economic Development Foundation$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Living Lands & Waters: $10k → 15%Kentucky Community & Technical College System Foundation Inc: $58k → 10%Kentucky Association for Economic Development Foundation: $20k → 14%Commonwealth Fund for KET Inc: $20k → 15%Eastern Kentucky University Foundation: $100k → 16%Kentucky Foothills Therapeutic Horsemanship Center: $20k → 25%Kentucky Association for Economic Development Foundation: $10k → 14%Kentucky Educational Television Inc: $20k → 15%Kentucky Foothills Therapeutic Horsemanship Center: $8k → 25%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Kentucky Educational Fund for Handicapped Children
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2
Kentucky Industrial Development Council

Development and educational opportunities to promote industrial and economic development in kentucky.

Community Improvement
3
Kentucky Association for Environmental Education

The kentucky association for environmental education is a professional membership based nonprofit whose primary goal is to serve as the conduit that connects environmental educators throughout ky

Environment
4
Kentucky Science Teachers Association

To promote the teaching of science

Community Improvement
5
Kentucky Financial Empowerment Foundation

The kentucky financial empowerment foundation was formed to provide financial literacy and empowerment instruction and services to a wide range of individuals, including k-12 students, veterans, low-income kentuckians and aging kentuckians.

Education
6
Kentucky Executive Mansions Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
8
Kentucky Association of Conservation District Employees

Conservation education and promotion

Environment
9
Kentucky County Judgeexecutive Associat

Provide services to governmental agencies.

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10
Kentucky Center for Agriculture and Rural Development Inc

Facilitate agricultural and rural business development in kentucky by 1) providing leadership, educational, technical and financial resources and 2) improving the economic conditions of rural kentucky through promoting development of new…

Food & Nutrition
11
One East Kentucky Corporation One East Kentucky

The exclusive mission of ONE EAST KENTUCKY is to Recruit Industry and Investment JOBSto Eastern Kentucky through the implementation of a 5-Year Economic Development Strategy. ONE EAST KENTUCKY is a 9-County Regional Organization comprised…

Community Improvement
12
Southeast Kentucky Economic Development Corporation Inc

To facilitate the economic growth and development of the southern kentucky region.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kentucky Educational Television Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Living Lands & Waters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 8 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationEASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCKENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $57,500 · EducationKENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATI…NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES: $50,000 · OtherNATIONAL CONFEREN…KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureKENTUCKY EDUCA…COMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMONWEALTH F…KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $30,000 · Community ImprovementKENTUCKY A…KENTUCKY FOOTHILLS THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP CENTER: $27,500 · Recreation & SportsKENTUCKY …LIVING LANDS & WATERS: $10,000 · Environment
Education$157,500Other$50,000Arts & Culture$40,000Community Improvement$30,000Recreation & Sports$27,500Environment$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $57,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetKENTUCKY ASSOCIATION FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $30,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetKENTUCKY FOOTHILLS THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP CENTER: $27,500 over 2y, 28% of budgetKENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Baird Foundation IncNatl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Baird Foundation IncWI11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization East Kentucky Power Cooperative Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from East Kentucky Power Cooperative Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $122k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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