Kentucky · Nonprofit
KENTUCKY 4H FOUNDATION INC
KENTUCKY 4H FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,868,618 to it, the largest being THE R C DURR FOUNDATION INC 541 BUTTERMILK PIKE SUITE 500 ($1,085,512). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $7.9M
What Kentucky 4h Foundation Inc does
Mission
To actively assist, advance and support the state and county 4-h youth development programs. To encourage and support youth leadership development and education. To recognize, support and assist trained 4-h adult and teen volunteer leaders. To support and assist in securing funding for the four 4-h camping centers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Providing high quality educational instruction to kentucky 4-hers by planning, promoting, implementing and evaluating 4-h programs in order to meet the interest and needs of the commonwealth of kentucky.
$6,039,721 spent$1,202,696 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,039,721.
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 2022 to 2023, from $6.4M to $13M (+98%).
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 13% · 2018 9% · 2019 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of KENTUCKY 4H FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% 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
Melissa Miller
Executive director
Board chair
Steven Lycans
Chairman and director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $120k → $824k.
9 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 KENTUCKY 4H 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
KENTUCKY 4H FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% 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
55% 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 KENTUCKY 4H FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 77% · 2019 88% · 2020 67% · 2021 49% · 2022 69% · 2023 35% — 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
50% of KENTUCKY 4H FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
56% of KENTUCKY 4H 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. $572k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
KENTUCKY 4H FOUNDATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like KENTUCKY 4H 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 KENTUCKY 4H 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 KENTUCKY 4H FOUNDATION INC?
- KENTUCKY 4H FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,868,618 to it, the largest being THE R C DURR FOUNDATION INC 541 BUTTERMILK PIKE SUITE 500 ($1,085,512). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KENTUCKY 4H FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $2,868,618 in grants to KENTUCKY 4H FOUNDATION INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KENTUCKY 4H FOUNDATION INC?
- THE R C DURR FOUNDATION INC 541 BUTTERMILK PIKE SUITE 500 is the largest funder on record, with $1,085,512 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KENTUCKY 4H 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 30 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