Kentucky · Nonprofit
BAWAC INC
BAWAC INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,008,064 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Cincinnati ($449,613). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.5M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $8.9M
What Bawac Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to transform barriers into opportunities for people with disabilities, or other challenges, by empowering them with services to live, learn, work, and thrive in the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Bawac's program services includes community rehabilitation services(crs), life transitions, supported employment and transportation. The crs program served 88 people this year and the life transitions program served 12 people. These programs take place on-site and are referred to as adult day training programs. Individual goals for persons served in both of these programs were met at a 95% success rate. Group and individual instruction time accounted for 47.5% of overall time spent in the programs. All persons served receive individualized support and services to meet their needs and optimize independent functioning. We currently have 10 people participating in our adult day training programs who are also participating in receiving supported employment services. This service is focused on supporting persons served to obtain and be successful in maintaining competitive integrated employment.
$1,906,504 spent$1,859,131 earned by the program32% of program spendingThe supported employment program provided services to 106 people this year. We completed 26 person-centered employment plans for persons served. These plans identify a person's strengths and interests in order to conduct a job search that best fits with the person's skills and abilities. We had 31 new job placements during the year. 81% of all person's placed continued to maintain their employment throughout the year. The program also provides services through the norse project search program. This year we had 7 interns successfully complete the program and receive a certificate of completion. We continue to provide long-term follow-up support after a person is successfully placed for as long as an individual needs and wants this service. 83% of participants on our long-term follow-up program maintained their employment during the year.
$550,213 spent$415,762 earned by the program9% of program spendingBawac transportation transported 215-225 individuals with disability through 6 counties in the northern kentucky area in fy25. We are under contract with ftsb, northern kentucky area district, and st. Elizabeth outpatient services to provide non-emergency medical transportation throughout the greater cincinnati and northern kentucky area. Our medical transports serve close to 200 patients to and from the hospital, dialysis, pharmacies, and doctors appointments as far north as west chester, ohio and as far south as louisville, ky, along with going into south central indiana. We have also started doing socialization trips for people to visit with family and friends who don't have the ability to do so on their own. Bawac transportation continues to provide transport to individuals that have community jobs through our supported employment services in the northern kentucky area. Bawac transportation continues to strive to be on time, reliable, respectable, and dependable in our community and to our partners, resulting in good passenger surveys. In fy25, bawac transportation was generously granted several grants/vehicles from the state of ky along with the partnership with the oki/sorta…
$2,631,717 spent$3,845,883 earned by the program44% of program spendingFacility based work adjustment training - our facility based work adjustment training prepares individuals with disabilities or challenges to employment for community based employment through counseling, work related skills training, and work training. Remunerative work is provided in a realistic job setting so that program staff may support individuals to prepare them for community based employment. Production services - our production services establish working relationships and sub-contract arrangements with area businesses to provide a variety of work opportunities for our consumers. These opportunities enable bawac to provide a variety of work experiences and training in areas such as assembly, inspection, collating, sorting, packaging, labeling, bagging, sealing, and machining. Bawac offers area businesses a quality, timely, and cost-effective solution specifically tailored to their unique needs. In fy25, bawac has demonstrated to over 87 area companies the added value and reliability we offer to their businesses.
$889,527 spent15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,977,961.
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 $4.3M to $6.1M (+41%).
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 11% · 2018 11% · 2019 11% · 2020 25% · 2021 30% · 2022 7% · 2023 12% · 2024 10% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of BAWAC INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Jason Ashbrook
President and CEO
Board chair
Robert Smith
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $59k → $154k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 BAWAC 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
BAWAC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 BAWAC INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 87% · 2019 83% · 2020 73% · 2021 51% · 2022 67% · 2023 36% — 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 BAWAC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
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
BAWAC INC draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k 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.
Against its field
BAWAC INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BAWAC 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BAWAC INC?
- BAWAC INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,008,064 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Cincinnati ($449,613). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BAWAC INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,008,064 in grants to BAWAC INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BAWAC INC?
- United Way of Greater Cincinnati is the largest funder on record, with $449,613 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BAWAC 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 16 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