Kentucky · Nonprofit
KENTUCKY HEARTWOOD INC
KENTUCKY HEARTWOOD INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $717,602 to it, the largest being BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($425,662). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $159k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $718k
- Net assets
- $206k
What Kentucky Heartwood Inc does
Mission
Kentucky heartwood seeks to protect and restore the integrity, stability, and beauty of kentuckys native forests and biotic communities through research, education, advocacy, and community engagement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
1. Forest protection advocacy and legal action kentucky heartwood conducted forest protection advocacy and legal support activities to conserve mature and old-growth forests on public lands within the daniel boone national forest. Activities included scientific review of environmental assessment, preparation of formal objections to proposed timber projects, and participation in mediation processes. These activities directly advanced the organization's exempt purpose by protecting biodiversity, forest ecosystems, and watershed health for local communities. In 2025, the organization reviewed projects affecting more than 20,000 acres, engaged 300+ community members, and submitted multiple editorial pieces to newspapers. Total expenses: 55,000.
$55,000 spent42% of program spending2. Community education and public engagement kentucky heartwood provided environmental education and public engagement programs focused on forest ecology, land stewardship, and public participation in federal land management processes. Activities included guided forest walks, community meetings, educational presentations, newsletters, members annual meeting, and outreach communications. These programs advanced the organization's exempt purpose by increasing public understanding of forest conservation and enabling informed civic participation. In 2025, kentucky heartwood reached 500+ participants through monthly electronic newsletters (10) quarterly updates (3) tabling (~5) at community events and our members annual spring meeting. Total expenses: 52,000.
$52,000 spent40% of program spending3. Program capacity building through key staff hiring to strengthen the delivery of its exempt purpose, kentucky heartwood hired a new executive director and a staff ecologist to lead and expand its conservation, education, and science-based advocacy programs. These hires increased the organization's capacity to conduct forest monitoring, manage conservation initiatives, engage communities, and coordinate complex advocacy and legal processes. In 2025, the new staff supported all core program areas, expanded scientific and technical expertise, and improved organizational effectiveness in protecting kentucky's forests and biodiversity. Total expenses: 24,176.
$24,176 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $131,176.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $154k to $236k (+53%).
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: 2023 4% · 2024 6% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of KENTUCKY HEARTWOOD INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $70k → $113k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 HEARTWOOD 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 HEARTWOOD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 HEARTWOOD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 100% · 2019 33% · 2020 67% · 2021 60% · 2022 75% · 2023 60% — 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 HEARTWOOD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
77% of KENTUCKY HEARTWOOD 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 $163k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside Kentucky, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $555k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 HEARTWOOD INC has grown faster than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like KENTUCKY HEARTWOOD 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 HEARTWOOD 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 HEARTWOOD INC?
- KENTUCKY HEARTWOOD INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $717,602 to it, the largest being BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($425,662). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KENTUCKY HEARTWOOD INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $717,602 in grants to KENTUCKY HEARTWOOD INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KENTUCKY HEARTWOOD INC?
- BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $425,662 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KENTUCKY HEARTWOOD 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 2020–2025), 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