Kentucky · Nonprofit
KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC
KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,886,325 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($1,864,556). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $-724579
What Kentucky Educational Television Foundation Inc does
Mission
Nonprofit foundation created to support and further the educational, charitable, and public purposes and activities of the kentucky authority for educational television. The organization's primary purpose is to receive, hold, and administer grants in the name of the authority.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Acquisition and production of instructional resources for grades p-12 - ket services and resources are used in public and nonpublic schools, as well as by parents, community groups and other organizations outside of formal educational settings. This program service supports the production of online digital resources, workshops for students, teachers and parents, and professional development for teachers.
$1,213,163 spent$118,683 earned by the program12% of program spendingProduction of adult and continuing education - ket provides courses and support for adults who are preparing to take the ged test, need pre-ged level instruction, or want to improve their workplace skills. Ket has created an innovative online learning system which is currently used by independent learners and in adult education centers across the state.
$1,284,482 spent$555,707 earned by the program13% of program spendingAcquisition and production of programming - ket produces, acquires, and distributes high-quality, innovative, educational, local, and national content on multiple platforms. Content includes national programming from pbs, public affairs programs focused on local issues and concerns, cultural affairs programs that celebrate kentucky's rich history and unique culture, and 400 hours of live state legislative coverage each year.
$6,004,207 spent62% of program spendingProduction of miscellaneous education programs.
$1,204,842 spent$2,200 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,706,694.
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 2023 to 2024, from $12M to $18M (+56%).
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 48% · 2018 46% · 2019 52% · 2020 51% · 2021 54% · 2022 47% · 2023 49% · 2024 29% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Shae Hopkins
Executive director/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $178k → $219k.
13 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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: $31M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Commonwealth Fund for Ket Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 88% · 2019 34% · 2020 22% · 2021 41% · 2022 32% · 2023 23% — 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
48% of KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION 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
KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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 EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION 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
86% 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 2 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Commonwealth Fund for Ket Inc · exempt
- Kentucky Authority for Educational Television · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION 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 EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC?
- KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,886,325 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($1,864,556). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $3,886,325 in grants to KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $1,864,556 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION 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 35 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing