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BARREN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER INC

BARREN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $437,472 to it, the largest being RAY & KAY ECKSTEIN CHARITABLE TRUST ($85,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$588k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$437k
Net assets
$1.5M
11/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Barren Heights Christian Retreat Center Inc does

Mission

Our mission is simply to love and encourage families. We do this primarily by providing free weekend retreats and community outreach for families who have children with disabilties.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Hosted family enrichment retreats and community outreach activities for families who have children with special needs.

    $299,099 spent$589 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $299,099.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($209k) Expenses 100 ($198k) Net assets 100 ($501k)2018 Revenue 130 ($271k) Expenses 126 ($250k) Net assets 104 ($522k)2019 Revenue 376 ($787k) Expenses 146 ($288k) Net assets 204 ($1.0M)2020 Revenue 163 ($341k) Expenses 146 ($289k) Net assets 214 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 207 ($433k) Expenses 182 ($360k) Net assets 229 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 203 ($425k) Expenses 177 ($350k) Net assets 244 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 241 ($505k) Expenses 195 ($387k) Net assets 267 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 281 ($588k) Expenses 207 ($410k) Net assets 303 ($1.5M)
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Revenue (281)Expenses (207)Net assets (303)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $550k to $1.0M (+86%).

$527k
$550k
$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.5M
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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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
’17
$21k
’18
$499k
’19
$52k
’20
$73k
’21
$75k
’22
$118k
’23
$179k
’24
12
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

Mindy Terrell

President/chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1212121111101013
Joined·+4+3+2+0+3+3+4
No longer listed·4330431
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $26k → $45k.

5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 BARREN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER 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

BARREN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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

64% 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 BARREN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER INC.

19%
largest funder
45%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 61% · 2019 35% · 2020 37% · 2021 27% · 2022 21% · 2023 56% — 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

43% of BARREN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

99% of BARREN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

KY
NC

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $182k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like BARREN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER INC

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In Kentucky

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 14%Fundraising 13%

Governance

13
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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BARREN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER INC?
BARREN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $437,472 to it, the largest being RAY & KAY ECKSTEIN CHARITABLE TRUST ($85,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BARREN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $437,472 in grants to BARREN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BARREN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER INC?
RAY & KAY ECKSTEIN CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BARREN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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