Kentucky · Nonprofit
BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,047,180 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC ($300,908). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $675k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Bluegrass Community & Technical College Foundation Inc does
Mission
To support the mission of the bluegrass community and technical college by stimulating voluntary financial support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Dual credit - divided by city and county residence, our winchester dual credit accounts are used to provide scholarships for high school students in winchester and clark county who are enrolled as dual credit at bctc winchester.
$100,035 spentof which $100,035 as grants21% of program spendingOperation read - operation read funds are used for english language training classes for eligible refugee students and are divided into the following budget categories: wages and salaries; materials and supplies; and operational and other.
$86,261 spent18% of program spendingGlobal outreach - the global outreach fund provides programmatic and global learner student support to the bctc global learning programs. Services and programs supported by this fund include summer camps, cultural festivals, career workshops and experiences, and resource support (passport fees, textbooks, supplemental educational supplies, virtual subscriptions / apps, registration fees, etc.) for bctc engaged with global learning programs from study abroad to refugee services to international student and scholar programs.
$23,015 spent5% of program spendingVarious programs operated to support the exempt mission of bluegrass community and technical college.
$257,781 spentof which $170,845 as grants$46,889 earned by the program55% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $467,092.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.3M to $3.1M (+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 0% · 2018 2% · 2019 13% · 2020 6% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Dr Erin Tipton
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $170k → $95k.
8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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
BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
74% 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 BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 55% · 2019 56% · 2020 45% · 2021 57% · 2022 56% · 2023 53% — 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
33% of BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
55% of BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $388k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Bluegrass Community and Technical C · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
- BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,047,180 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC ($300,908). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,047,180 in grants to BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC is the largest funder on record, with $300,908 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 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