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KENTUCKY FARM BUREAU EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC

KENTUCKY FARM BUREAU EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $320,583 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($189,477). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$241k
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$321k
Net assets
$364k
1/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Kentucky Farm Bureau Education Foundation Inc does

Mission

Provide financial grants for higher education and promote agricultural education in ky elementary and secondary schools.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Educational scholarships and awards were granted during 2024 to more than 120 approved recipients.

    $244,336 spentof which $223,000 as grants
    99% of program spending
  2. Mini grants of up to $500 each for agricultural experience tours and information programs for elementary and secondary school students. There were payments to 6 county farm bureaus in 2024.

    $3,000 spentof which $3,000 as grants
    1% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $247,336.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($135k) Expenses 100 ($161k) Net assets 100 ($398k)2018 Revenue 110 ($149k) Expenses 100 ($161k) Net assets 97 ($386k)2019 Revenue 121 ($164k) Expenses 93 ($149k) Net assets 101 ($402k)2020 Revenue 117 ($158k) Expenses 116 ($187k) Net assets 93 ($369k)2021 Revenue 724 ($981k) Expenses 139 ($223k) Net assets 282 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 890 ($1.2M) Expenses 1221 ($2.0M) Net assets 92 ($367k)2023 Revenue 150 ($203k) Expenses 124 ($199k) Net assets 94 ($374k)2024 Revenue 178 ($241k) Expenses 158 ($254k) Net assets 91 ($364k)
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Revenue (178)Expenses (158)Net assets (91)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.2M to $423k (−65%).

$483k
$388k
$403k
$464k
$1.2M
$423k
$459k
$555k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$25k
’17
−$11k
’18
$15k
’19
−$29k
’20
$757k
’21
−$756k
’22
$4k
’23
−$13k
’24
14
months of
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.

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Listed2828272727292928
Joined·+3+0+4+5+4+1+0
No longer listed·3145211
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $143k → $10k.

5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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: $86k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money KENTUCKY FARM BUREAU EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of KENTUCKY FARM BUREAU EDUCATION 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 FARM BUREAU EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

93% 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 FARM BUREAU EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC.

59%
largest funder
70%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 78% · 2022 51% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

71% of KENTUCKY FARM BUREAU EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $92k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside Kentucky, across 7 states.

IL
OH
MO
KY
NC
LA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $229k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like KENTUCKY FARM BUREAU EDUCATION 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

27
board members
89%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

86%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KY

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation · exempt
  • Kentucky Farm Bureau Development Corporation · corp_trust
  • Kentucky Farm Bureau Investment Corporation · corp_trust
  • Kentucky Farm Bureau Management Corporation · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds KENTUCKY FARM BUREAU EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
KENTUCKY FARM BUREAU EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $320,583 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($189,477). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does KENTUCKY FARM BUREAU EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $320,583 in grants to KENTUCKY FARM BUREAU EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KENTUCKY FARM BUREAU EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $189,477 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KENTUCKY FARM BUREAU EDUCATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 14 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