Kentucky · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC
FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 158 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,063,005 to it, the largest being JOSEPH W CRAFT III FOUNDATION ($4,810,000). 64 of them have funded it in more than one year. FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.4M
- Funders on record
- 158
- Grants received
- $32M
- Net assets
- $32M
Hosts funds for others
FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$17M
Recipients
198
Contributions on record
$32M
Donors on record
158
Payments out are 0.52x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.
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.
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 $14M to $23M (+72%).
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: 2020 14% · 2021 7% · 2022 3% · 2023 3% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Kristin Collins
Executive Director
Board chair
Kathy Atkins
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $6.9M.
39 of 158 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $177k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Appalachian Community Development Core Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 158 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.
Where its funders are
FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 27 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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.
Government funding FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.7M on record.
- Appalachian Regional Commission$2.4M
- Department of Agriculture$824k
- Department of Commerce$495k
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
53%
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 1 related entity
- Appalachian Community Development Core Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY 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 FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC?
- FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 158 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,063,005 to it, the largest being JOSEPH W CRAFT III FOUNDATION ($4,810,000). 64 of them have funded it in more than one year. FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC have?
- IRS filings report 158 organizations giving $32,063,005 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC, 64 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC?
- JOSEPH W CRAFT III FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,810,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 158 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing