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Kentucky Science and Technology Corp

KENTUCKY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPoration (kstc) is an entrepreneurial company dedicated to enhancing the capacity of people, companies and organizations to develop and apply science and technology and compete responsibly in the global marketplace. Kstc's strategies are to; 1)develop a comprehensive innovation strategy that brings…

$3.3M
Granted FY2021
23
Grants FY2021
23
Organizations funded FY2021
57%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 97
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$24M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 57% of the organizations Kentucky Science and Technology Corp funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21
Arts & CultureEducationOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202123$3.3M57%
FY202011$1.4M64%
FY201932$17M38%
FY201882$10M46%
FY201797$9.5Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Community Improvement$25MPublic Benefit$15MEducation$1.9MScience & Tech$253kRecreation & Sports$30k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Commonwealth of Kentucky$14,766,4711n/a
UHV Technologies Inc$766,2713n/a
Powertech Water LLC$747,1942n/a
Advanced Energy Materials LLC$525,5303n/a
Go Wild Alpha Inc$500,0002n/a
Pyrochem Catalyst Company$455,8872n/a
Schedule It LLC$438,0002n/a
Lumenari (Eie Materials)$430,4432n/a
TutorGen Inc$400,6722n/a
Educational Technology Collaborative$375,0001n/a
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All grantees of Kentucky Science and Technology Corp by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Commonwealth of Kentucky$14,766,4711n/a
UHV Technologies Inc$766,2713n/a
Powertech Water LLC$747,1942n/a
Advanced Energy Materials LLC$525,5303n/a
Go Wild Alpha Inc$500,0002n/a
Pyrochem Catalyst Company$455,8872n/a
Schedule It LLC$438,0002n/a
Lumenari (Eie Materials)$430,4432n/a
TutorGen Inc$400,6722n/a
Educational Technology Collaborative$375,0001n/a
Freshfry$375,0002n/a
Western Kentucky University Research Foundation Inc$326,077368%
Kentucky Highlands Investment Corp$300,92123%
MobileServe LLC$300,0001n/a
Mercury Data Systems Inc$270,7072n/a
University of Pikeville$263,75730%
Wearware$253,3002n/a
Liberate Medical$250,0003n/a
Signal Solutions LLC$242,8512n/a
Tri-County Economic Development Corporation$239,71127%
Orb Technologies$234,6403n/a
Greater Owensboro Economic Development Corporation$221,863218%
Advanced Genomic Technologies LLC$202,4392n/a
Gryphon Environmental$200,0001n/a
Fascure Therapeutics LLC$136,9523n/a
Iop Technologies LLC$120,4442n/a
Odorcept LLC$117,6712n/a
451 Tech LLC$100,0002n/a
Memstem LLC$97,5661n/a
Redleaf Biologics Inc$96,0032n/a
Inquiry Technologies LLC$93,0062n/a
Onovative LLC$82,8211n/a
Edumedics LLC$60,0001n/a
Nicolalde R&D LLC$58,5671n/a
Bert Thin Films LLC$50,7811n/a
Rosellini Scientific$48,7501n/a
PGxL Technologies LLC$48,7501n/a
Highlands High School Athletic Boosters Association Inc$30,000156%
Credit Fair-E$20,0001n/a
Berea College$8,25020%
Infobeyond Technology LLC$6,6002n/a
Storywood Bowties LLC$6,0001n/a
Asbury College$4,00020%
Lindsey Wilson University Inc$2,25020%
Bellarmine University Incorporated$1,25020%
TribowFlow Separations LLC$1,0001n/a
Collin Patrick Henry Machine$7501n/a
Maya Williamson$7501n/a
Jonathan Crawford$7501n/a
William Murrell$7501n/a

Plus 117 recipients with no EIN on record ($17M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Kentucky Science and Technology Corp supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWestern Kentucky University Research Foundation Inc: $326,077 over 3y, 68% of budgetKentucky Highlands Investment Corp: $300,921 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetUniversity of Pikeville: $263,757 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTri-County Economic Development Corporation: $239,711 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetGreater Owensboro Economic Development Corporation: $221,863 over 2y, 18% of budgetHighlands High School Athletic Boosters Association Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetBerea College: $8,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAsbury College: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLindsey Wilson University Inc: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBellarmine University Incorporated: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

American Endowment FoundationOH3.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Kentucky Science and Technology Corp

How much does Kentucky Science and Technology Corp give?
Kentucky Science and Technology Corp reported 23 grants totaling $3,329,699 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 97 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Kentucky Science and Technology Corp fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Community Improvement (59%), Public Benefit (36%), Education (5%).
Who are Kentucky Science and Technology Corp's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Commonwealth of Kentucky ($15M), UHV Technologies Inc ($766k), Powertech Water LLC ($747k).
Does Kentucky Science and Technology Corp fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kentucky Science and Technology Corp?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Kentucky Science and Technology Corp based?
Kentucky Science and Technology Corp is based in KY.

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 167 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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