Kentucky · Nonprofit
GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM INC
GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $176,313 to it, the largest being Kentucky Humanities Council Inc ($57,810). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $176k
- Net assets
- $86k
What Governor's Scholars Program Inc does
Mission
The program's mission is to enhance kentucky's next generation of civic and economic leaders.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The program placed high school rising seniors on 3 college campuses for five weeks of academic, social and personal growth. 1,050 students participated in the program in 2025.
$2,348,219 spent97% of program spendingThe program tracks alumni and provides programmatic updates via a website and other communications.
$48,525 spent2% of program spendingProgram promotion staff travel across the state to hold workshops to encourage students to apply and to help them complete competitive applications.
$36,604 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,433,348.
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 2019 to 2020, from $300k to $730k (+143%).
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: 2017 77% · 2018 77% · 2019 73% · 2020 94% · 2021 84% · 2022 86% · 2023 81% · 2024 78% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Trey Grayson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $36k → $20k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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: $2.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Governor's Scholars Program Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM 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 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 55% · 2021 40% · 2022 49% · 2023 50% — 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 INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM INC draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k 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.
Organizations like GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM 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 GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM INC?
- GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $176,313 to it, the largest being Kentucky Humanities Council Inc ($57,810). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $176,313 in grants to GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM INC?
- Kentucky Humanities Council Inc is the largest funder on record, with $57,810 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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