Kentucky · Nonprofit
Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc
Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc (Kentucky) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $882,345 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($324,116). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $882k
- Net assets
- $23M
What Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc does
Mission
The honorable order of kentucky colonels, inc. Grants money to 501(c)(3) entities that demonstrate a need that otherwise cannot be met and that will enhance or extend their charitable or educational activities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The honorable order of kentucky colonels, inc (hokc) grants money to 501(c)(3) entities that demonstrate fiscal responsibility and the mission to strengthen the lives of kentuckians or to highlight and enhance the culture of the commonwealth. The organization focuses on kentucky charities and conducts a "good works program" that focuses its large grant-making activities on charitable organizations operating in kentucky. See schedule o for additional information. It receives hundreds of grant applications annually and through a careful winnowing and vetting process, seeks to ensure that its contributions are allocated in a dedicated and reasonable way. The organization also has an ongoing emergency grant process for kentucky nonprofits and also raises and distributes funds to provide disaster relief. In 2024, hokc granted $4,533,108 to 366 organizations who served more than three million individuals in the state of kentucky. Since hokc began as a 501(c)(3)organization, close to $68 million dollars has been awarded.
$4,683,780 spentof which $4,533,108 as grants$237,571 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,683,780.
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.
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 $20M to $27M (+31%).
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.
54% of Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Sherry Crose
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $4k → $133k.
12 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 41% · 2019 49% · 2020 63% · 2021 44% · 2022 49% · 2023 44% — 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
32% of Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
82% of Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels 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 $159k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $724k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc has grown faster than half of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Kentucky Colonels Collectibles Inc · corp_trust
- Charitable Lead Trust · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels 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 Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc?
- Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc (Kentucky) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $882,345 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($324,116). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $882,345 in grants to Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $324,116 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels 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 51 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