Kentucky · Nonprofit
Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc
Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc (Kentucky) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,857,381 to it, the largest being KENTUCKY ASSN OF SEXUAL ASSAULT PROGRAMS INC ($4,873,497). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $9.9M
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc does
Mission
At the core, the Ion Center is a violence prevention organization. For 50 years it has helped individuals and families move toward safety, support and healing. That work is more than shelter alone. It is about creating the conditions that allow someone to exhale, regroup and begin again safely and a community that is equipped to respond and increase safety. Our mission is to take the best care of people who have been impacted by power-based personal violence and to measurably reduce the number of people who have been hurt by it throughout the tri-state region including 13 counties in both the NKY and Buffalo Trace area development districts in Kentucky. We also provide services to residents of Ohio and Indiana.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ion center residential program operates two state-designated domestic violence shelters that provide immediate, confidential housing paired with 24/7 crisis intervention, legal advocacy, children's services, therapy, and case management. Ion center is the only domestic violence shelter program serving both northern kentucky and the buffalo trace regions and is designed to meet the safety and trauma needs of survivors, families, and pets fleeing violence. In 2025, ion provided 23,492 safe shelter bednights and 70,476 meals through its two residential shelter programs. Ion center also provided 5,089 safe pet bed nights through its onsite kennel and foster program. All services are free of charge.
$2,252,958 spent49% of program spendingIon center's nonresidential program, operated as a dual state-designated domestic violence and rape crisis program, is designed to support people who have experienced power-based personal violence, including domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and child abuse. Services include a 24-hour text/hotline, hospital response, walk-in services, community partnerships, a pet protection program, court advocacy, and safety planning. The program works to help survivors address both the short-term and long-term effects of trauma through therapy, support groups, housing assistance, case management, and financial literacy support. The goal of the program is to provide holistic, trauma-informed support that increases skills, resources, stability, and safety so survivors can achieve self-sufficiency and long-term well-being. All services are free of charge.
$1,479,149 spent32% of program spendingIon center's public education and prevention program focuses on keeping violence from happening in the first place. This program educates the community and connects them to the issues of domestic violence, child abuse, harassment, stalking, sexual assault, and other forms of power-based personal violence. This comprehensive program builds skills and tools to help individuals intervene before or during an incident of violence. Ion center offers the nationally recognized green dot prevention strategy and the it's my space program to high schools, middle schools, colleges, businesses, agencies, and communities throughout the region. In addition, ion provides a wide range of professional trainings tailored to meet the needs of the community. Ion center has the largest primary prevention team in the state of kentucky and helped establish the first green dot city in the nation. The ion center for violence prevention seeks to engage every member of the community in prevention, knowing no one has to do everything, but everyone can do something to help end violence.
$826,665 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,558,772.
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 2019 to 2020, from $4.8M to $3.5M (−26%).
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 67% · 2018 74% · 2019 78% · 2020 98% · 2021 84% · 2022 81% · 2023 85% · 2024 84% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Christy Burch
Chief Executive Officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $755k → $1.2M.
8 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 54% · 2019 57% · 2020 57% · 2021 45% · 2022 55% · 2023 65% — 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
48% of Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
72% of Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $307k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.2M
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.
Organizations like Ion Center for Violence Prevention 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Ion Center for Violence Prevention 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 Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc?
- Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc (Kentucky) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,857,381 to it, the largest being KENTUCKY ASSN OF SEXUAL ASSAULT PROGRAMS INC ($4,873,497). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $9,857,381 in grants to Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc?
- KENTUCKY ASSN OF SEXUAL ASSAULT PROGRAMS INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,873,497 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ion Center for Violence Prevention 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 48 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