Kentucky · Nonprofit
CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY INC
CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $582,273 to it, the largest being Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family Foundation ($240,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $582k
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Challenger Learning Center of Kentucky Inc does
Mission
Provide a beyond the classroom education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide access to cultural, eudacational & technology expreience beyond the classroom, improve the economic and image of the region, create relationships amoung primary, secondary and community college intructors
$1,025,034 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,025,034.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.2M to $2.9M (+31%).
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 16% · 2021 26% · 2022 68% · 2023 69% · 2024 39% · 2025 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $6k → $160k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY 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
CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
36% 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 CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 89% · 2021 71% · 2022 41% · 2023 31% — 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
80% of CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY INC draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $170k 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.
Against its field
CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Appalachian Regional Commission$800k
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$650k
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 CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY INC?
- CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $582,273 to it, the largest being Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family Foundation ($240,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $582,273 in grants to CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY INC?
- Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $240,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY 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.
Play a game about who funds Challenger Learning Center of Kentucky →
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 13 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