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ARTS OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC

ARTS OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $526,310 to it, the largest being LAURA G TURNER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($247,656). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$16M
Revenue FY2025
11
Funders on record
$526k
Grants received
$16M
Net assets
6/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

ARTS OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 501 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin55% · top quartile
Months of reserve16.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)60% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 501 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($2.4M) Expenses 100 ($521k) Net assets 100 ($2.3M)2022 Revenue 229 ($5.4M) Expenses 550 ($2.9M) Net assets 211 ($4.9M)2023 Revenue 199 ($4.7M) Expenses 669 ($3.5M) Net assets 266 ($6.2M)2024 Revenue 233 ($5.5M) Expenses 838 ($4.4M) Net assets 320 ($7.5M)2025 Revenue 661 ($16M) Expenses 1370 ($7.1M) Net assets 688 ($16M)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (661)Expenses (1370)Net assets (688)Peer revenue range

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 5% · 2022 27% · 2023 2% · 2025 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

67% of ARTS OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 816 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.9M
21
$2.6M
22
$1.3M
23
$1.2M
24
$8.6M
25
17
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $103k.

4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)30% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $240k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Orchestra Kentucky Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ARTS OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC raised.

From the IRS filings of ARTS OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY 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.

How concentrated its funding is

ARTS OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

33% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ARTS OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC.

47%
largest funder
85%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 69% · 2022 75% · 2023 89%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of ARTS OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

ARTS OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 4 states in all.

WI
PA
KY
TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

20
21
22
23
Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like ARTS OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC

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

In Kentucky

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 32%Fundraising 6%

Governance

25
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARTS OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ARTS OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC?
ARTS OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $526,310 to it, the largest being LAURA G TURNER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($247,656). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ARTS OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $526,310 in grants to ARTS OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ARTS OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC?
LAURA G TURNER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $247,656 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ARTS OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 11funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing