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FERN CREEK HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC

FERN CREEK HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $207,164 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($170,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$570k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$207k
Net assets
$1.4M
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Fern Creek High School Alumni Association Inc does

Mission

Alumni association for graduates

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The organization provides newsletters and other services to over 11,000 alumni.

    $56,068 spent
    17% of program spending
  2. The organization provides scholarships and assistance to fern creek high school graduates as well as assistance to current high school projects. The organization provides for sporting facility up-grades, advertising for sporting events, and playing equipment for sporting teams at fern creek high school and scholarships for students and teachers.

    $272,893 spentof which $272,893 as grants
    83% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $328,961.

02The 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 ($184k) Expenses 100 ($170k) Net assets 100 ($311k)2018 Revenue 142 ($262k) Expenses 105 ($178k) Net assets 110 ($342k)2019 Revenue 153 ($281k) Expenses 166 ($283k) Net assets 125 ($389k)2020 Revenue 149 ($274k) Expenses 103 ($175k) Net assets 177 ($550k)2021 Revenue 308 ($566k) Expenses 121 ($207k) Net assets 293 ($911k)2022 Revenue 217 ($400k) Expenses 184 ($314k) Net assets 279 ($866k)2023 Revenue 191 ($351k) Expenses 166 ($282k) Net assets 321 ($997k)2024 Revenue 201 ($369k) Expenses 199 ($340k) Net assets 350 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 310 ($570k) Expenses 208 ($354k) Net assets 443 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (310)Expenses (208)Net assets (443)Peer revenue range

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 $550k to $911k (+66%).

$311k
$342k
$389k
$550k
$911k
$866k
$997k
$1.1M
$1.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

23% of FERN CREEK HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’17
$84k
’18
−$2k
’19
$99k
’20
$359k
’21
$86k
’22
$69k
’23
$29k
’24
$216k
’25
15
months of
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

Melissa Tabor

Executive director

Board chair

Mike Gatton

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed141617161418171721
Joined·+3+4+1+1+7+1+0+6
No longer listed·13233202
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $57k → $68k.

Funder
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
2
2
2
1
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FERN CREEK HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 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

FERN CREEK HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

100% 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 FERN CREEK HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC.

82%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 88% · 2022 89% · 2023 89% — 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

100% of FERN CREEK HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $207k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FERN CREEK HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin38% · top quartile
Months of reserve14.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like FERN CREEK HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

21
board members
86%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KY

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Questions and answers

Who funds FERN CREEK HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC?
FERN CREEK HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $207,164 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($170,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FERN CREEK HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $207,164 in grants to FERN CREEK HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FERN CREEK HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC?
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $170,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FERN CREEK HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 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 2 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