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EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY INC

EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,150,244 to it, the largest being PADUCAH LIONS CLUB TELETHON INC ($785,395). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$10M
Revenue FY2025
8
Funders on record
$1.2M
Grants received
$16M
Net assets
8/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

Against its field

EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,000 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,000 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.9M) Expenses 100 ($4.3M) Net assets 100 ($6.6M)2018 Revenue 110 ($5.4M) Expenses 110 ($4.7M) Net assets 111 ($7.3M)2019 Revenue 118 ($5.8M) Expenses 116 ($5.0M) Net assets 124 ($8.1M)2020 Revenue 104 ($5.1M) Expenses 118 ($5.0M) Net assets 125 ($8.2M)2021 Revenue 142 ($7.0M) Expenses 119 ($5.1M) Net assets 156 ($10M)2022 Revenue 142 ($7.0M) Expenses 142 ($6.1M) Net assets 163 ($11M)2023 Revenue 181 ($8.9M) Expenses 166 ($7.1M) Net assets 192 ($13M)2024 Revenue 198 ($9.8M) Expenses 194 ($8.3M) Net assets 220 ($14M)2025 Revenue 211 ($10M) Expenses 208 ($8.9M) Net assets 245 ($16M)
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Revenue (211)Expenses (208)Net assets (245)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

2% of EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,397 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$647k
17
$709k
18
$835k
19
$82k
20
$1.9M
21
$902k
22
$1.8M
23
$1.5M
24
$1.5M
25
4.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $141k → $117k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)11% 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: $393k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Charity League Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY INC raised.

From the IRS filings of EASTER SEALS WEST 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

EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

85% 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 EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY INC.

68%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 83% · 2019 72% · 2020 81% · 2021 87% · 2022 54% · 2023 58%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

83% of EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 100% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

94% of EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

IL
OH
KY

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $121k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Kentucky

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

67%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EASTER SEALS WEST 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY INC?
EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,150,244 to it, the largest being PADUCAH LIONS CLUB TELETHON INC ($785,395). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,150,244 in grants to EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY INC?
PADUCAH LIONS CLUB TELETHON INC is the largest funder on record, with $785,395 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EASTER SEALS WEST 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 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing