Kentucky · Nonprofit
ESTILL COUNTY 21ST CENTURY INC
ESTILL COUNTY 21ST CENTURY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,147 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $175k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $96k
- Net assets
- $209k
What Estill County 21st Century Inc does
Mission
Promoting the development of estill county
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mountain mushroom festival - community festival featuring local vendors, community organizations, music and community gathering
$56,554 spent60% of program spendingRiver city players - promoted the arts in estill county through creative and dramatic expression. Productions - staged sucessful theatre productions. Productions suspended due to covid save the mack - raised enough funds to successfully purchase the mack theatre. Secured a grant from epa to cleanup lead paint and abestos and started the cleanup project. Continuing moving forward in repairing the mack theatre
$17,354 spent18% of program spendingEpic- promoting youth programs to encourage youth to participate in community and stay off of drugs and alcohol
$15,283 spent16% of program spendingChamber of commerce - promoted business development and networking in estill county. Created and participated in community projects.the main projects are: small business saturday - local activities in conjuction with nationwide event highlighting small businesses products and services. Monthly networking lunches with chamber business members to highlight & promote projects, promotions and activities going on with their businesses and community. Moonlite market - monthly seasonal street gathering highlight local business and promoting community estill eats - promoting local food services in estill county mushroom festival/ravenna railroad festival - annual festivals promoting community businesses & community non-profit organizations
$3,456 spent4% of program spendingEstill action group was formed to empower each other to use our voices, talents, and any resource we possess to better and beautify our community. Their largest ongoing project is the pursuit of twin city trail town certification. This will open more channels for tourism in our community weekend on the water - family friendly innertube floating and kayaking to promote the amenities of the kentucky river in estill county
$2,110 spent2% of program spendingRavenna railroad festival - annual festival promoting ky steam heritage museum, local vendors & local community non-profit organizations
$206 spent0% of program spendingLeap leadership program - 9 month program in which potential future community leaders are developed. There are two overnight trips one to acquaint participants to the program and address needs of eastern kentucky communities. The other to visit other small communities who have developed successful program models. Monthly sessions are spent in the various participating counties fostering a better understanding of local issues and needs and how they are being addressed. There is a session that takes place at the kentucky legislature to see how local needs and issues are being handled and addressed at the state level. Also one session is spent on team building and leadership skills. Program was suspended this year due to covid.
$46 spent0% of program spendingFriends of the furnace - promoting landmark furnace for historical and tourism purposes
$15 spent0% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $95,024.
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 $118k to $148k (+26%).
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 7% · 2018 71% · 2019 36% · 2020 15% · 2021 3% · 2022 18% · 2023 21% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of ESTILL COUNTY 21ST CENTURY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 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
Joseph Crawford
Executive director
Board chair
Yvonne Harrison
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $30k → $12k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 ESTILL COUNTY 21ST CENTURY 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
ESTILL COUNTY 21ST CENTURY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 ESTILL COUNTY 21ST CENTURY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 73% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
25% of ESTILL COUNTY 21ST CENTURY INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 13% 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
65% of ESTILL COUNTY 21ST CENTURY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $34k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k 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
ESTILL COUNTY 21ST CENTURY INC is better cushioned than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ESTILL COUNTY 21ST CENTURY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $200k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$200k
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 ESTILL COUNTY 21ST CENTURY INC
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In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ESTILL COUNTY 21ST CENTURY 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 ESTILL COUNTY 21ST CENTURY INC?
- ESTILL COUNTY 21ST CENTURY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,147 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ESTILL COUNTY 21ST CENTURY INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $96,147 in grants to ESTILL COUNTY 21ST CENTURY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ESTILL COUNTY 21ST CENTURY INC?
- FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ESTILL COUNTY 21ST CENTURY 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.
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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 8 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