Kentucky · Nonprofit
KENTUCKIANAWORKS FOUNDATION INC
KENTUCKIANAWORKS FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,192,250 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($889,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $169k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Kentuckianaworks Foundation Inc does
Mission
To promote and assist, whether financially or otherwise, the activities of the greater louisville workforce development board, inc. D/b/a kentuckianaworks, and to raise funds and coordinate efforts that encourage louisville area residents to raise their educational attainment levels.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
The organization continued to promote and assist, whether financially or otherwise, the activities of the greater louisville workforce development board, inc. D/b/a kentuckianaworks, and to raise funds and coordinate efforts that encourage louisville area residents to raise their educational attainment levels.
$145,459 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $145,459.
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 $1.4M to $2.6M (+89%).
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 31% · 2019 39% · 2020 24% · 2021 38% · 2022 50% · 2023 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of KENTUCKIANAWORKS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Michael Gritton
Executive director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $95k → $50k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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: $2.0M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money KENTUCKIANAWORKS FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of KENTUCKIANAWORKS 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
KENTUCKIANAWORKS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 98% · 2019 100% · 2020 59% · 2021 49% · 2022 81% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
59% of KENTUCKIANAWORKS 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. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
KENTUCKIANAWORKS FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,636 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,636 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Government funding KENTUCKIANAWORKS FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.1M on record.
- Department of Education$5.1M
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 KENTUCKIANAWORKS FOUNDATION 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
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Greater Louisville's Workforce Development Board Dba Kentuckianaworks · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KENTUCKIANAWORKS 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 KENTUCKIANAWORKS FOUNDATION INC?
- KENTUCKIANAWORKS FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,192,250 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($889,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KENTUCKIANAWORKS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $2,192,250 in grants to KENTUCKIANAWORKS FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KENTUCKIANAWORKS FOUNDATION INC?
- JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $889,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KENTUCKIANAWORKS 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 7 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