Kentucky · Nonprofit
FAULKNER MORGAN ARCHIVE
FAULKNER MORGAN ARCHIVE (Kentucky) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $685,880 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($600,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $66k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $686k
- Net assets
- $443k
What Faulkner Morgan Archive does
Mission
To collect and preserve the LGBTQ history of Kentucky.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Archival Collections & Research: Collecting archival material and oral histories related to the LGBTQ history of Kentucky. Making the collections available for in-person and virtual researchers, publications and institutions, answering questions, leading to resources. Fielded around 100 inquiries for research, media, or other information.
$29,604 spent$2,148 earned by the program15% of program spendingPresentations & Talks: Public Presentations on Kentucky's LGBTQ History: including public libraries, museums, schools and universities, and other nonprofits, reaching over 1,000 participants total. These took place at Transylvania University, Midwest Archives Conference, Fayette County Public Schools GSA Summit, Kentucky Council on Archives Conference, Lexington Public Library, Institute 193, 2nd Story, Governor's Scholar Program at Morehead State University, Lyric Theatre, and the Lexington History Museum.
$78,994 spent40% of program spendingEvents & Exhibitions: With support from a grant from 250Lex, unveiled Queer, Here, & Everywhere: The Roots of Kentucky's LGBTQ History, the first comprehensive exhibition of Kentucky's LGBTQ history, to thousands of visitors, with Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton speaking at the Opening. Tabled at the Lexington Pride Festival, Kentucky Black Pride Festival, and Chill Out & Proud Somerset. Guided dozens of participants in guided walking tours of historic sites in downtown Lexington, KY. Hosted the 8th Annual Transylvania Liberal Arts + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon with 75 participants. Assisted in the premiere of the documentaries Bob's Just Going To Tell Some Stories and Native Daughter: CD Collins, A Reckoning, to over 1,000 viewers total.
$88,763 spent$16,205 earned by the program45% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $197,361.
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 2022 to 2023, from $162k to $498k (+206%).
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: 2023 0% · 2024 5% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of FAULKNER MORGAN ARCHIVE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Jonathan Coleman
President & Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $101k → $250k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 FAULKNER MORGAN ARCHIVE’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
FAULKNER MORGAN ARCHIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 85% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
FAULKNER MORGAN ARCHIVE draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FAULKNER MORGAN ARCHIVE has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FAULKNER MORGAN ARCHIVE
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAULKNER MORGAN ARCHIVE: 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 FAULKNER MORGAN ARCHIVE?
- FAULKNER MORGAN ARCHIVE (Kentucky) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $685,880 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($600,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAULKNER MORGAN ARCHIVE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $685,880 in grants to FAULKNER MORGAN ARCHIVE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAULKNER MORGAN ARCHIVE?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAULKNER MORGAN ARCHIVE 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 7 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