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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

$69k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$125kEnvironment$103k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $43,301, the rows itemized in this filing. The $68,888 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,587 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

  • Under $10k4 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$8,400
Median grant
4
States reached
$304k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EENC$10,100
MISSISSIPPI EEA$8,601
TENNESSEE EEA$8,400
EEASC$8,100
EEA OF GA$8,100
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 (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EEASC: $8k → 16%LEAGUE OF EE FLA: $6k → 9%LEEF: $19k → 13%EEAA: $17k → 18%TEEA: $8k → 12%CATHAM CO SOLID: $10k → 9%EENC: $10k → 12%EEA OF GEORGIA: $12k → 8%TENNESSEE EEA: $9k → 11%MEEA: $9k → 14%MISSISSIPPI EEA: $9k → 23%EEASC: $8k → 16%LEEF: $9k → 13%EEAA: $7k → 18%EEA OF GEORGIA: $9k → 8%TENNESSEE EEA: $8k → 11%MEEA: $8k → 14%MISSISSIPPI EEA: $6k → 23%EEA OF GA: $8k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
TN
NC
SC
MS
AL
GA
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$212k · 7 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
2

Total granted

$212k
$16k

Still filing today

71%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TE
    The Environmental Education Alliance Inc
    3× · 2021–2024 · $29k · revenue +88%
  • ME
    MIDWEST ENERGY EFFICIENCY ALLIANCE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +83%
  • EE
    ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $16k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHATHAM COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • ME
    MISSISSIPPI ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EENC: $61,044 · OtherEENCThe Environmental Education Alliance Inc: $28,600 · OtherThe Environmental Education Alliance IncTENNESSEE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION TERM: $25,100 · OtherTENNESSEE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION TERMENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA INC: $23,350 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA INCENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $16,100 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INCCHATHAM COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT: $9,996 · OtherCHATHAM COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENTMISSISSIPPI ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ALLIANCE: $5,947 · OtherLEAGUE OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATORS IN FLORIDA INC: $33,500 · EnvironmentLEAGUE OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUC…MIDWEST ENERGY EFFICIENCY ALLIANCE: $24,601 · EnvironmentMIDWEST ENERGY EFFICIENCY AL…
Other$170,137Environment$58,101

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEAGUE OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATORS IN FLORIDA INC: $33,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetThe Environmental Education Alliance Inc: $28,600 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetMIDWEST ENERGY EFFICIENCY ALLIANCE: $24,601 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $16,100 over 2y, 11% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kentucky Association for Environmental Education funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kentucky Association for Environmental Education. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–90%
    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 9 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 $38k 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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