Kentucky · Nonprofit
BLUEGRASS GREENSOURCE INC
BLUEGRASS GREENSOURCE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $435,194 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($149,595). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $701k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $435k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Bluegrass Greensource Inc does
Mission
Empower the bluegrass to create a sustainable environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
School age education: bluegrass greensource (bggs) offers environmental education programs for preschool through high school students, teachers and families. These programs engage participants in hands-on learning about their environment. Through our school outreach programs, educators visit classes to facilitate standards-based classroom and outdoor lessons focused on water quality, energy, waste reduction/recycling, plants, animals, and more! Through repeated (3-5) lessons with bggs educators, students develop the skills and knowledge to make informed decisions about their environment and take action. Lessons are stem-based, yet they feature many connections with literacy, art, and other disciplines. Lessons align with state and national academic standards, most notably the next generation science standards (ngss). Bggs educators select and plan lessons that meet the needs of the participants. Additionally, bggs educators facilitate environmental education activities for youth at community events, such as library programs, school science nights, and festivals. At these events, educators engage children and their caregivers in hands-on learning activities related to their…
$186,036 spent$172,097 earned by the program30% of program spendingCommunity outreach: bggs offers outreach to communities in central kentucky to improve residents' connection to our local environment and help them understand how small behavior changes can lead to big, positive changes in our communities. Examples of our community outreach activities include energy efficiency workshops, rain barrel workshops, our green neighbor certification program and business education
$299,730 spent$70,315 earned by the program49% of program spendingEvents: bggs hosts multiple events to engage local residents in sustainability initiatives and help them understand how they can create a sustainable environment. Examples of these events include main street clean sweep, a 20 community litter cleanup during earth week that engages close to 1,000 volunteers, the sustainability summit that showcases success stories from beyond central kentucky and empowers local communities to create change, greenfest, a green living festival with workshops and local vendors and the green business innovation forum which highlights best practices that help regional businesses understand how to improve their environmental footprint while saving money
$126,002 spent$24,253 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $611,768.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.7M to $1.5M (−9%).
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 7% · 2018 23% · 2021 10% · 2022 36% · 2023 84% · 2024 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of BLUEGRASS GREENSOURCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Amy Sohner
Executive director
Board chair
Paulette Akers
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $250 → $36k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 GREENSOURCE 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 GREENSOURCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 GREENSOURCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 78% · 2019 51% · 2020 85% · 2021 87% · 2022 66% · 2023 55% — 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
30% of BLUEGRASS GREENSOURCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
BLUEGRASS GREENSOURCE INC draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k 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
BLUEGRASS GREENSOURCE INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding BLUEGRASS GREENSOURCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$30k
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 BLUEGRASS GREENSOURCE 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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLUEGRASS GREENSOURCE 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 BLUEGRASS GREENSOURCE INC?
- BLUEGRASS GREENSOURCE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $435,194 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($149,595). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUEGRASS GREENSOURCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $435,194 in grants to BLUEGRASS GREENSOURCE INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUEGRASS GREENSOURCE INC?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $149,595 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUEGRASS GREENSOURCE 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 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