Kentucky · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION OF STATE DAM SAFETY OFFICIALS INC
ASSOCIATION OF STATE DAM SAFETY OFFICIALS INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,400 to it, the largest being JACOBS ENGINEERING FOUNDATION ($5,400). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Association of State Dam Safety Officials Inc does
Mission
Asdso is a professional organization focusing on improving dam safety practices in the u.s through education, communication, policy advocacy and data analysis.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The assoc works toward increasing dam safety in the us by providing educational tools & forums for dam engineers & dam owners, by coordinating a communication network within the dam community,offering an information clearinghouse on dam safety advocating for strong state and federal policies on dam safety and administering public awareness programs. As part of the association's goal to promote and share best practices in dam safety, in order to reduce the risk associated with their dam(s), the association offered a number of peer reviews to dam owners/operators. Services included providing a team of dam safety program experts to the owner to review, write a report and make recommendations to the owners on how to improve their programs based on association guidelines and industry standards. New services under this program included the development of procedures for performing ferc-mandated owners' dam safety program audits.
$910,782 spentof which $20,000 as grants$2,507,072 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $910,782.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.4M to $3.3M (+36%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 24% · 2018 30% · 2019 11% · 2020 26% · 2021 14% · 2022 14% · 2023 6% · 2024 21% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of ASSOCIATION OF STATE DAM SAFETY OFFICIALS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (69% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Lori C Spragens
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of ASSOCIATION OF STATE DAM SAFETY OFFICIALS 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
ASSOCIATION OF STATE DAM SAFETY OFFICIALS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 1 state in all.
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.
Against its field
ASSOCIATION OF STATE DAM SAFETY OFFICIALS INC's revenue grew 87% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ASSOCIATION OF STATE DAM SAFETY OFFICIALS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.3M on record — $5.3M federal, $1k state.
- Department of Homeland Security$3.4M
- Department of the Interior$1.1M
- Department of Agriculture$726k
- Department of Defense$9k
- PROF DEV INSTATE TUITION/REGISTRATION$575
- SUBSCRIPTIONS AND PUBLICATIONS$542
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ASSOCIATION OF STATE DAM SAFETY OFFICIALS 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
25% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSOCIATION OF STATE DAM SAFETY OFFICIALS 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 ASSOCIATION OF STATE DAM SAFETY OFFICIALS INC?
- ASSOCIATION OF STATE DAM SAFETY OFFICIALS INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,400 to it, the largest being JACOBS ENGINEERING FOUNDATION ($5,400). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION OF STATE DAM SAFETY OFFICIALS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,400 in grants to ASSOCIATION OF STATE DAM SAFETY OFFICIALS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION OF STATE DAM SAFETY OFFICIALS INC?
- JACOBS ENGINEERING FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION OF STATE DAM SAFETY OFFICIALS 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.
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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