Kentucky · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR AND NICH COUNTIES INC
COMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR AND NICH COUNTIES INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $432,814 to it, the largest being BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($151,680). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $55M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $433k
- Net assets
- $36M
What Community Act Council for Lex-Fay Bour Harr and Nich Counties Inc does
Mission
Community action council for lexington-fayette, bourbon, harrison, and nicholas counties, inc. Prevents, reduces, and eliminates poverty among individuals, families, and communities through direct services and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child education-cac is the grant recipient of multiple federal head start awards. Cumulatively, these programs provide high-quality, comprehensive early childhood education services for children, ages three to five, and their families in the communities of clark, estill, fayette, garrard, harrison, jackson, laurel, madison, nicholas, powell, rockcastle and scott counties in kentucky. Parents, community leaders and agencies are involved in providing opportunities for children from low-income families to reach developmental milestones, preparing them to enter kindergarten ""ready to learn."" in fiscal year 2025, the head start programs served 870 children and their families.cac is the grant recipient of multiple federal early head start awards. These programs provide family-centered, high-quality, comprehensive early childhood education services for very young children (ages birth to 36-months) and their families, including pregnant women, in the communities of bourbon, clark, estill, fayette, garrard, harrison, laurel, madison, nicholas, powell, rockcastle and scott counties in kentucky. Early head start programs promote the development of each child and enable families to develop…
$37,984,180 spentof which $71,912 as grants$374,657 earned by the program81% of program spendingCommunity services-through various programs, the council served 12,612 individuals and 6,382 households during fiscal year 2025. The services provided range from emergency services, such as liheap energy assistance, food pantry operations and rental assistance, to those associated with transitional and supportive housing. The council also assists individuals and families with financial education and tax preparation through its financial empowerment and volunteer income tax assistance programs.
$5,993,448 spentof which $2,696,795 as grants$388,748 earned by the program13% of program spendingWeatherization services - the organization is the grant recipient of the federal weatherization assistance program in fayette, bourbon, harrison and nicholas counties, kentucky. The weatherization assistance program improves the energy efficiency of participants' homes through inspection, improvements and repairs such as insulating walls and floors, replacing heating systems and sealing windows and doors. In 2025, cac's weatherization assistance programs, including warmwise, served 61 individuals.the organization is the grant recipient of the federal low-income home energy assistance program (liheap) in fayette, bourbon, harrison and nicholas counties, kentucky. Liheap offers subsidy and crisis assistance with energy bills. Subsidy assistance offers participants a one-time credit to their utility bill and is available from november through mid-december. Crisis assistance offers participants who have received a disconnection notice (or who are within four days of running out of home heating fuel) payment of their utility bills with a co-pay requirement. Cac also operated a liheap summer program to provide emergency assistance for households struggling with high utility bills during…
$2,698,514 spentof which $2,165,611 as grants$216,780 earned by the program6% of program spendingSenior programs
$298,397 spent$14,522 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $46,974,539.
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 $22M to $35M (+57%).
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 88% · 2018 87% · 2019 88% · 2020 92% · 2021 82% · 2022 93% · 2023 94% · 2024 96% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of COMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR AND NICH COUNTIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% 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
Sharon Price
Chief executive director
Board chair
Daniel Murphy
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $165k → $18k.
4 of 12 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Wintercare Energy Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money COMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR AND NICH COUNTIES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of COMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR AND NICH COUNTIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 funders by total. 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
COMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR AND NICH COUNTIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 COMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR AND NICH COUNTIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 54% · 2019 100% · 2020 72% · 2021 62% · 2022 100% · 2023 55% — 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
17% of COMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR AND NICH COUNTIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
51% of COMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR AND NICH COUNTIES 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. $160k 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
COMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR AND NICH COUNTIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR AND NICH COUNTIES INC
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In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 5 related entities
- Cac Holdings Inc · disregarded
- Shepherd Place Inc · exempt
- The Wintercare Energy Fund Inc · exempt
- Community Action Council Development Corporation · exempt
- Dv8 Kitchen #1 LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR AND NICH COUNTIES INC?
- COMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR AND NICH COUNTIES INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $432,814 to it, the largest being BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($151,680). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR AND NICH COUNTIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $432,814 in grants to COMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR AND NICH COUNTIES INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR AND NICH COUNTIES INC?
- BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $151,680 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR AND NICH COUNTIES 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 12 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