Kentucky · Nonprofit
KCF KENTUCKY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC
KCF KENTUCKY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,058,798 to it, the largest being OWSLEY BROWN II FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($440,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $111k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $232k
What Kcf Kentucky Conservation Foundation Inc does
Mission
Supports powerful and innovative programs to build capacity for communities in Kentucky, to build a cleaner and sustainable future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Clean and Sustainable Energy Project. KY Clean Energy Advocacy Network Support: Support the team of pro-solar organizations with their education and strategy work. Includes contributing to shared support for a dedicated coordinator to manage the c3 group work within the Kentuckians for Energy Democracy coalition, and also engaging with a multi-state coalition focusing on the same Energy Democracy work in order to share strategies and tools. Nuclear Generating Plants: Monitor discussions. Renewable Siting, Energy Democracy: Continue the public education campaign on large-scale solar projects and advocate for responsible use of land/best land management practices for clean energy projects. Continue to engage in education opportunities and best practices for distributed solar, educating the public and agencies on resources and trends including storage, working with groups such as the Kentuckians for Energy Democracy coalition (K4ED) and Ky. Solar Energy Society (KySES). This includes work with K4ED on strategies to engage the public on the value of their Public Service Commission and the need for citizens to understand the process and engage. Update a new edition of the KCC Solar…
$35,000 spentof which $35,000 as grants28% of program spendingClimate Education Project: Help inform local and state government and community nonprofits about financial opportunities from the Inflation Reduction Act, Infrastructure Act, and similar Federal programs where communities can organize climate-reduction and climate-resilience projects. Distribute updated third edition of KCC's Key Steps guide. Continue educational opportunities for locally-based programs in cities and towns. Partner with local community-based project groups such as the Bluegrass Climate Action Team, Louisville Climate Action Network, Bluegrass Greensource Energy Efficiency Team, Kentucky Environmental Educators and similar local groups to amplify local climate messaging and implementation. Inform the public of funding opportunities through federal initiatives, Highlighting climate resiliency, environmental justice and equity opportunities. Voter education/engagement activities on climate issues (c3). Continue to inform the public about the environmental and substantial climate change impacts of crypto mining and other emerging climate-impacting threats, and continue networking and sharing information with multi-state allies on this issue.
$28,000 spentof which $28,000 as grants22% of program spendingInfrastructure, Toxics and Waste: Inform the public on initiatives to explore the use of Class VI wells for carbon sequestration. Provide content maintenance and updates to the kybeyondfossilfuels.org website and maintain the kybeyondfossilfuels Facebook page to include more information about pipeline protests, health risks of natural gas and benefits of electrification rather than gas. Use this forum to gather new allies. Stay current to provide information to the public, and that we can provide continuing support for allied groups and communities executing local action plans. Help with education campaigns on infrastructure projects and land rights. Highlight environmental issues relating to abandoned gas wells and the need to cap wells. Support Bernheim Arboretum land/pipeline controversy by helping to distribute and amplify Bernheim's messaging and the messaging of local citizen groups. Build out public information on small-scale projects that may increase oil and gas operations, such as distributed energy use for cryptocurrency. Water Infrastructure: In collaboration with citizen water networks, amplify core messaging from citizen groups on problems and solutions, working with…
$18,000 spentof which $18,000 as grants14% of program spendingBiodiversity Education: Promote wildlife corridors and habitat connectivity as a way to build resiliency for wildlife and pollinators. This may include utility corridors such as gas, solar and transmission infrastructure and the state's rare plant research along roadways. Promote information to reduce conflicts between infrastructure and rare species. Monitor species-related issues and keep the public informed on the proposed developments in the Red River Gorge (either commercial developments or forest service initiatives). Disseminate information and progress on Kentucky's Pollinator and Monarch Plans: participate in pollinator plan-related meetings, disseminate information through public channels. Tie in native plant information on pollinators where applicable. Social media education through Facebook and similar online channels. Post regularly on biodiversity issues. Continue to support groups working on sensitive habitat issues in and around the Daniel Boone forest and Red River Gorge. Educate coalitions about opportunities for biodiversity initiatives and wildlife corridors within new federal funding dedicated to these kinds of projects. Monitor state's application of $1.2…
$10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants8% of program spendingNonpartisan voter outreach and voter engagement, particularly focusing on regions where there is not a strong presence such as certain rural areas. Hold "town hall" style outreach events. Hold "get out the vote" set of nonpartisan activities, either virtual, in-person, or a combination, utilizing texting, social media, and/or in person tabling.
$10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants8% of program spendingLand Conservation and Stewardship: Continue to educate the public on capacity and funding for lands protection and resulting impacts using materials from the Dorris Duke foundation. Find and leverage new studies on the economic value of conservation and outdoor recreation lands. Partner with agricultural groups on addressing farmland conservation. Promote information about wildlands corridors on the KCF website, Facebook pages and other public spaces. Participate in coalition calls on wildlands corridors and build alliances for researching information on infrastructure needed to allow wildland corridors to coexist with transportation corridors. Research climate-preparedness and climate-resilience issues affecting Kentucky's wild lands. Work with allied groups on resiliency initiatives.
$17,000 spentof which $17,000 as grants13% of program spendingCulture and Heritage Project: Present the Wild and Scenic Film Festival for its 10th year, with film selection on natural lands, and biodiversity and outdoor recreation. Continue the Kentucky Voices public event for 2024, highlighting authors who focus on natural lands, biodiversity, Kentucky history, justice issues.
$8,325 spentof which $8,000 as grants7% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $126,325.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $228k to $105k (−54%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $59k → $150k.
6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 KCF KENTUCKY CONSERVATION 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
KCF KENTUCKY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% 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
47% 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 KCF KENTUCKY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 83% · 2019 46% · 2020 41% · 2021 95% · 2022 77% · 2023 67% — broadly stable.
“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
44% of KCF KENTUCKY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
68% of KCF KENTUCKY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION 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. $375k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
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In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 KCF KENTUCKY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION 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 KCF KENTUCKY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC?
- KCF KENTUCKY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,058,798 to it, the largest being OWSLEY BROWN II FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($440,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KCF KENTUCKY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,058,798 in grants to KCF KENTUCKY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KCF KENTUCKY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC?
- OWSLEY BROWN II FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $440,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KCF KENTUCKY CONSERVATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 12 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