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AWESOME CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC

AWESOME CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $588,839 to it, the largest being MARKSBURY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($105,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$961k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$589k
Net assets
$663k
10/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Awesome Center for Entrepreneurship Inc does

Mission

The organization's mission is to raise awareness of the impact that entrepreneurship has made in the commonwealth and encourage others to pursue similar ambitious endeavors.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The organization accepted and mentored 8 additional startup companies through the awesome fellowship program.

    $923,306 spent
    98% of program spending
  2. The organization hosted 6 pitch contest events for local entrepreneurs to share their ideas with the community.

    $5,138 spent
    1% of program spending
  3. Hosted annual entrepreneur hall of fame ceremony with 500+ attendees, inducted 4 new hall of fame entrepreneurs.

    $13,177 spent
    1% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $941,621.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($249k)2020 Revenue 129 ($1.4M) Expenses 81 ($966k) Net assets 253 ($630k)2021 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 78 ($927k) Net assets 309 ($771k)2022 Revenue 97 ($1.0M) Expenses 77 ($911k) Net assets 357 ($889k)2023 Revenue 97 ($1.0M) Expenses 103 ($1.2M) Net assets 283 ($705k)2024 Revenue 90 ($961k) Expenses 88 ($1.0M) Net assets 266 ($663k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (90)Expenses (88)Net assets (266)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 2019 to 2020, from $266k to $633k (+138%).

$266k
$633k
$778k
$908k
$717k
$677k
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of AWESOME CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$125k
’19
$402k
’20
$141k
’21
$118k
’22
−$184k
’23
−$81k
’24
7.2
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.

Board chair

Nathan Port

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201920202021202220232024
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Joined·+0+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·00010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $63k → $100k.

6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of AWESOME CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP 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

AWESOME CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

46% 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 AWESOME CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC.

18%
largest funder
49%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 57% · 2019 35% · 2020 25% · 2021 26% · 2022 42% · 2023 55% — growing more concentrated.

“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

31% of AWESOME CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

AWESOME CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 6 states in all.

NY
PA
KY
TN
OK
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $263k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AWESOME CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve7.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 6%Fundraising 3%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KY

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Questions and answers

Who funds AWESOME CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC?
AWESOME CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $588,839 to it, the largest being MARKSBURY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($105,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AWESOME CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $588,839 in grants to AWESOME CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AWESOME CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC?
MARKSBURY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AWESOME CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 15 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