Kentucky · Nonprofit
FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC
FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,889,844 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,564,695). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $0
- Funders on record
- 104
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $499k
What Family Scholar House Inc does
Mission
The mission of family scholar house ("fsh") is to end the cycle of poverty by giving single parents and young adults formerly in foster care the support they need to obtain post-secondary education that leads to a livable wage. Fsh works to end the cycle of poverty and transform our community by empowering families and youth to succeed in education and achieve life-long self-sufficiency. Fsh believes that everyone deserves the opportunity to realize their full potential and that access to education is a significant barrier for disadvantaged families. By providing academic advising, apprenticeship opportunities, housing, childcare, family support services, and inter-generational learning opportunities for health, well-being and life skills, we help to address all the barriers to success in education and life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To end the cycle of poverty and transform our community by empowering families and youth to succeed in education and achieve life-long self sufficiency.
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 2023 to 2024, from $20M to $499k (−98%).
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: 2019 2% · 2020 1% · 2021 25% · 2022 56% · 2023 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (52% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Cathe Dykstra
CEO
Board chair
Tracy Redmon
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $393k → $2.3M.
20 of 104 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 104 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
FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
69% 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 FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 48% · 2019 45% · 2020 33% · 2021 39% · 2022 30% · 2023 26% — 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
42% of FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
60% of FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE 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. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,694 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,694 housing & shelter nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.6M on record.
- Appalachian Regional Commission$1.5M
- Delta Regional Authority$439k
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$428k
- Corporation for National and Community Service$226k
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 FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE 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
0% 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
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Project Women Development LLC · disregarded
- Sjsh Gp LLC · disregarded
- Stoddard Johnston Scholar House Lllp · partnership
- Parkland Scholar House Lllp · partnership
- Parkland Gp LLC · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC?
- FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,889,844 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,564,695). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 104 organizations giving $10,889,844 in grants to FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC, 59 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,564,695 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 104 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