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Kentucky Association of Conservation Districts Foundation

Represent and Assist Kentuckys 121 Local Conservation Districts and 35 Watershed Conservancy Districts.

$902k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Environment$3.4M
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 29 grants below total $815,582, the rows itemized in this filing. The $901,754 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $86,172 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $759k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$28,616
Median grant
1
States reached
$276k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Webster County Conservation District$52,109
Crittenden County Conservation District$38,902
Fleming County Conservation District$36,420
Adair County Conservation District$35,438
Woodford County Conservation District$35,322
Boone County Conservation District$33,563
Harrison County Conservation District$33,044
Casey County Conservation District$32,432
Warren County Conservation District$31,560
Carroll County Conservation District$31,398
Nelson County Conservation District$31,138
Franklin County Conservation District$28,933
Monroe County Conservation District$28,920
Wayne County Conservation District$28,874
Ohio County Conservation District$28,616
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 (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Boone County Conservation District: $34k → 7%SHELBY COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $28k → 9%Woodford County Conservation District: $35k → 10%NELSON COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $31k → 11%Meade County Conservation District: $27k → 12%HARDIN COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $29k → 13%DAVIESS COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $34k → 13%McLean County Conservation District: $26k → 14%FRANKLIN COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $34k → 14%Webster County Conservation District: $52k → 15%Harrison County Conservation District: $33k → 15%Ballard County Conservation District: $28k → 15%JEFFERSON COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $35k → 15%Adair County Conservation District: $35k → 15%Carroll County Conservation District: $31k → 16%TODD COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $36k → 17%Ohio County Conservation District: $29k → 17%CALDWELL COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $28k → 17%LaRue County Conservation District: $26k → 18%Warren County Conservation District: $32k → 18%Butler County Conservation District: $25k → 19%Graves County Conservation District: $27k → 19%BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $29k → 19%CALLOWAY COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $27k → 19%Crittenden County Conservation District: $39k → 20%Monroe County Conservation District: $29k → 21%Fleming County Conservation District: $36k → 21%ADAIR COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $32k → 22%MENIFEE COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $30k → 23%Rockcastle County Conservation District: $26k → 24%Casey County Conservation District: $32k → 26%Wayne County Conservation District: $29k → 29%BOONE COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $30k → 7%WOODFORD COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $33k → 10%Nelson County Conservation District: $31k → 11%MEADE COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $26k → 12%Daviess County Conservation District: $26k → 13%MCLEAN COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $25k → 14%Franklin County Conservation District: $29k → 14%WEBSTER COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $35k → 15%HARRISON COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $29k → 15%BALLARD COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $26k → 15%CARROLL COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $28k → 16%TODD COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $26k → 17%OHIO COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $26k → 17%WARREN COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $26k → 18%Calloway County Conservation District: $25k → 19%MONROE COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $29k → 21%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 35 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
4

Total granted

$3.2M
$157k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
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

  • AC
    Adair County Conservation District
    5× · 2021–2025 · $144k
  • WC
    WOODFORD COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT
    5× · 2021–2025 · $135k
  • FC
    FLEMING COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT
    5× · 2021–2025 · $122k

Funded once

  • EC
    ESTILL COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT
    one grant, 2024 · $108k
  • HC
    HENDERSON COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT
    one grant, 2024 · $27k
  • HS
    HOPKINS SWCD
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
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

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2021–2025.

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

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2021 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 40 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Adair County Conservation District: $143,947 · OtherWOODFORD COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $134,838 · OtherFLEMING COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $121,873 · OtherWebster County Conservation District: $121,436 · OtherHarrison County Conservation District: $119,696 · OtherBRECKINRIDGE COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $114,788 · OtherOHIO COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $114,001 · Other+33 more: $2,543,082 · Other+33 more
Other$3,413,661

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Kentucky Association of Conservation Districts Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kentucky Association of Conservation Districts Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 40 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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