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GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDATION INC

GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $611,870 to it, the largest being THE R C DURR FOUNDATION INC 541 BUTTERMILK PIKE SUITE 500 ($120,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$881k
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$612k
Net assets
$4.2M
16/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Governor's Scholars Program Foundation Inc does

Mission

To raise and manage financial support for the governor's scholars program, inc. (gsp), as well as to provide planned giving opportunities for donors who are interested in supporting gsp.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Financial support provided to various educational programs of the governor's scholars program, inc.

    $390,544 spentof which $224,000 as grants$27,549 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $390,544.

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 ($572k) Expenses 100 ($205k) Net assets 100 ($2.9M)2018 Revenue 118 ($677k) Expenses 313 ($640k) Net assets 97 ($2.8M)2019 Revenue 106 ($606k) Expenses 365 ($746k) Net assets 103 ($3.0M)2020 Revenue 88 ($503k) Expenses 166 ($339k) Net assets 117 ($3.4M)2021 Revenue 126 ($718k) Expenses 288 ($590k) Net assets 139 ($4.0M)2022 Revenue 114 ($651k) Expenses 268 ($549k) Net assets 123 ($3.6M)2023 Revenue 98 ($559k) Expenses 337 ($690k) Net assets 137 ($3.9M)2024 Revenue 154 ($881k) Expenses 361 ($738k) Net assets 146 ($4.2M)
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Revenue (154)Expenses (361)Net assets (146)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 $3.4M to $4.0M (+19%).

$2.9M
$2.8M
$3.0M
$3.4M
$4.0M
$3.6M
$4.0M
$4.3M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

67% of GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$368k
’17
$36k
’18
−$140k
’19
$164k
’20
$128k
’21
$102k
’22
−$131k
’23
$143k
’24
9.4
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.

Board chair

Alan Stein

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+1+1+0+4+0+2+0
No longer listed·1215000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $32k → $76k.

11 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDATION 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

GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

54% 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 GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDATION INC.

20%
largest funder
49%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 54% · 2019 29% · 2020 22% · 2021 56% · 2022 33% · 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

50% of GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

54% of GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDATION 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 $284k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Kentucky funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $328k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve9.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDATION 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

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
90%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

76%

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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Governor's Scholars Program Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDATION INC?
GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $611,870 to it, the largest being THE R C DURR FOUNDATION INC 541 BUTTERMILK PIKE SUITE 500 ($120,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $611,870 in grants to GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDATION INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDATION INC?
THE R C DURR FOUNDATION INC 541 BUTTERMILK PIKE SUITE 500 is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDATION 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 26 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