Kentucky · Public charity
Kentucky Education Association
To unite, organize and empower members to advocate for themselves, to ensure a quality public education for every kentucky student and to be the preeminent voice for quality public education.
- $453k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $371k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $14,120
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $151,136
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 15
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $19M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Kentucky Education Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $371k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $573k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $381k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $447k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $470k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $511k | n/a |
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Education$1.4MEmployment$1.0MPublic Benefit$231kArts & Culture$52kHuman Services$6k
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Education Association - Retired | $1,020,485 | 6 | 93% |
| Protect Our Schools Ky | $250,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Kea-Central District | $211,819 | 6 | n/a |
| Northern Kentucky Education Association | $164,943 | 6 | n/a |
| Eastern Kentucky Education Association | $142,501 | 6 | n/a |
| Second District Education Association | $137,001 | 6 | n/a |
| First District Education Association | $126,693 | 6 | n/a |
| Third District Education Association | $120,213 | 6 | n/a |
| Fourth District Education Association | $107,373 | 6 | n/a |
| Kentucky Education Support Professionals Assoc | $99,662 | 6 | n/a |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Education Association - Retired | $1,020,485 | 6 | 93% |
| Protect Our Schools Ky | $250,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Kea-Central District | $211,819 | 6 | n/a |
| Northern Kentucky Education Association | $164,943 | 6 | n/a |
| Eastern Kentucky Education Association | $142,501 | 6 | n/a |
| Second District Education Association | $137,001 | 6 | n/a |
| First District Education Association | $126,693 | 6 | n/a |
| Third District Education Association | $120,213 | 6 | n/a |
| Fourth District Education Association | $107,373 | 6 | n/a |
| Kentucky Education Support Professionals Assoc | $99,662 | 6 | n/a |
| Fifth District Education Association | $97,540 | 6 | n/a |
| Upper Cumberland Education Association | $78,286 | 6 | n/a |
| Middle Cumberland Education District Association | $65,964 | 6 | n/a |
| Upper Kentucky River Education Association | $46,232 | 5 | n/a |
| Kentucky Educational Television Foundation Inc | $31,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Commonwealth Fund for Ket Inc | $20,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Operation Turnout | $18,950 | 1 | 10% |
| Daviess County Education Association | $5,913 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($8k), not named here.
About Kentucky Education Association
- How much does Kentucky Education Association give?
- Kentucky Education Association reported 15 itemized grants totaling $370,572, out of $452,674 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Kentucky Education Association fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (52%), Employment (37%), Public Benefit (8%).
- Who are Kentucky Education Association's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Kentucky Education Association - Retired ($1.0M), Protect Our Schools Ky ($250k), Kea-Central District ($212k).
- Does Kentucky Education Association fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Kentucky Education Association based?
- Kentucky Education Association is based in KY.
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More from the funding graph
The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home