Kentucky · Nonprofit
EKY HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC
EKY HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $40k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $106k
What Eky Heritage Foundation Inc does
Mission
Embracing our past, empowering our people, and unlocking our future by developing a tourism industry cluster, and revitalizing our communities in the coalfields of eastern kentucky
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Hosted 4 public meetings in various locations in letcher county to share our projects, boost community morale, and solicit feedback on our work furthering tourism and economic development.
$19,549 spentof which $475 as grants33% of program spendingEstablished facade improvement grant in partnership with the city of whitesburg to provide property and/or business owners up to $1,000 to spruce up the outside of their building or storefront.
$20,073 spentof which $1,000 as grants34% of program spendingPartnered with one east kentucky, regional economic development office, to establish two "downtown strategies" plans in whitesburg and in jenkins. These are downtown revitalization plans.
$19,073 spent32% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $58,695.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $300k to $666k (+122%).
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: 2022 1% · 2023 9% · 2024 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of EKY HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
Jeffery Justice
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Against its field
EKY HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC's revenue fell 90% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,376 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding EKY HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.5M
- Appalachian Regional Commission$6k
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 EKY HERITAGE FOUNDATION 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
21% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EKY HERITAGE FOUNDATION 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 EKY HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC?
- EKY HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EKY HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to EKY HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of EKY HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC?
- ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EKY HERITAGE FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 1 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