Kentucky · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC
COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,931,569 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC ($933,560). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Community Action of Southern Kentucky Inc does
Mission
We team with Community partners to provide human services with dignity and respect, empowering people in Southern Kentucky to achieve stability and economic security.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Head Start Program proives a comprehensive child development program for three- and four-year-old children who are either low income or have special needs. The children and families receive services in the following areas: Education, Health, Nutrition, Social Disabilities, and Parental Involvement. The Head Start Program enrolled hundredsof different children. Children receieved medical screenings and dental examinations. Children were provided transportation to and from the programs.
$7,963,249 spentof which $8,725,230 as grants53% of program spendingLow-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) provides financial and other assistance to Low-Income Households through components, subsidy, and crisis.
$3,633,888 spentof which $3,662,284 as grants24% of program spendingAging services
$1,558,240 spentof which $1,499,265 as grants10% of program spendingOther program services
$989,453 spentof which $1,057,995 as grants7% of program spendingCommunity Service Block Grant - Provides a variety of services to alleviate the causes and conditions of poverty, including food, shelter or developmental assistance (education and job training)
$796,635 spentof which $777,729 as grants5% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,941,465.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $12M to $10M (−14%).
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 85% · 2018 87% · 2019 87% · 2020 90% · 2021 91% · 2022 89% · 2023 84% · 2024 95% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
Carla Brown
CEO
Board chair
Yvonne Fields
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $357k → $145k.
1 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHERN 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
COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 ACTION OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 84% · 2019 86% · 2020 66% · 2021 39% · 2022 54% · 2023 77% — 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
50% of COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHERN 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
85% of COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY 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. $37 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Government funding COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $67.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$60.5M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$7.4M
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 COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHERN 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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC?
- COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,931,569 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC ($933,560). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,931,569 in grants to COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC?
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC is the largest funder on record, with $933,560 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHERN 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.
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