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HELP OFFICE OF OWENSBORO INC

HELP OFFICE OF OWENSBORO INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $685,788 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE DEPOSITORY INC ($163,750). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$428k
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$686k
Net assets
$977k
8/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What Help Office of Owensboro Inc does

Mission

Ministry serving persons with basic necessities of life, including food, clothing, and emergency assistance with rent and utilities to keep individuals and families from becoming homeless.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide specefic financial assistance to the poor. This is done with the help of volunteers. Provided donated food, rent and utility assistance.

    $229,866 spentof which $167,025 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $229,866.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($318k) Expenses 100 ($209k) Net assets 100 ($544k)2018 Revenue 72 ($230k) Expenses 103 ($215k) Net assets 103 ($560k)2019 Revenue 76 ($241k) Expenses 113 ($237k) Net assets 104 ($564k)2020 Revenue 148 ($469k) Expenses 211 ($442k) Net assets 107 ($583k)2021 Revenue 113 ($358k) Expenses 140 ($294k) Net assets 121 ($660k)2022 Revenue 117 ($370k) Expenses 143 ($300k) Net assets 134 ($731k)2023 Revenue 168 ($534k) Expenses 159 ($334k) Net assets 171 ($932k)2024 Revenue 135 ($428k) Expenses 183 ($382k) Net assets 180 ($977k)
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Revenue (135)Expenses (183)Net assets (180)

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 $734k to $935k (+27%).

$547k
$561k
$566k
$586k
$663k
$734k
$935k
$980k
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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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$108k
’17
$15k
’18
$4k
’19
$28k
’20
$64k
’21
$70k
’22
$201k
’23
$45k
’24
25
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

Angela Settle

Executive director

Board chair

Sydney Settle

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.

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Listed88771010129
Joined·+0+1+0+3+0+5+0
No longer listed·0200033
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $29k → $209k.

4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 HELP OFFICE OF OWENSBORO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 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.

How concentrated its funding is

HELP OFFICE OF OWENSBORO INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

65% 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 HELP OFFICE OF OWENSBORO INC.

24%
largest funder
57%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 60% · 2020 63% · 2021 76% · 2022 26% · 2023 72% — growing more concentrated.

“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

40% of HELP OFFICE OF OWENSBORO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

99% of HELP OFFICE OF OWENSBORO INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

WI
OH
KY

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

’17
’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $337k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Organizations like HELP OFFICE OF OWENSBORO 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

60% of spending goes to programs.

Program 60%Management 40%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds HELP OFFICE OF OWENSBORO INC?
HELP OFFICE OF OWENSBORO INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $685,788 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE DEPOSITORY INC ($163,750). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HELP OFFICE OF OWENSBORO INC have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $685,788 in grants to HELP OFFICE OF OWENSBORO INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HELP OFFICE OF OWENSBORO INC?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE DEPOSITORY INC is the largest funder on record, with $163,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HELP OFFICE OF OWENSBORO 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 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