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APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC

APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$67k
0/1 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Appalachian Development Alliance Inc does

Mission

Economic development in appalachia

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Joint funding opportunities apply for loans or grants from both private and government sources for the purpose of creating a program with sufficient financial resources to foster economic and community development projects in kentucky's appalachian counties.

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($43k) Expenses 100 ($14k) Net assets 100 ($2.1M)2018 Revenue 33 ($14k) Expenses 14284 ($2.1M) Net assets 3 ($64k)2019 Revenue 1 ($263) Expenses 70 ($10k) Net assets 3 ($54k)2021 Revenue 0 ($132) Expenses 6 ($922) Net assets 3 ($61k)2022 Revenue 0 ($139) Expenses 9 ($1k) Net assets 3 ($60k)2023 Revenue 19 ($8k) Expenses 8 ($1k) Net assets 3 ($67k)2024 Revenue 6 ($2k) Expenses 19 ($3k) Net assets 3 ($66k)2025 Revenue 4 ($2k) Expenses 8 ($1k) Net assets 3 ($67k)
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Revenue (4)Expenses (8)Net assets (3)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $2.1M to $73k (−97%).

$2.1M
$73k
$72k
$68k
$67k
$67k
$66k
$67k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$29k
’17
−$2.1M
’18
−$10k
’19
−$790
’21
−$1k
’22
$7k
’23
−$243
’24
$470
’25
0.4
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

20172018
Listed66
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'18
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 1 state in all.

MA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin28% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−33% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Kentucky

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

56%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC?
APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC.
Who is the largest funder of APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC?
GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing