Kentucky · Nonprofit
KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC
KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,049,511 to it, the largest being Fulk Family Foundation Inc ($1,950,500). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.1M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $24M
What Kentucky Natural Lands Trust Inc does
Mission
Kentucky natural lands trust works to protect, connect and restore wildlands with a commitment to safeguarding biodiversity, mitigating climate impacts and fostering healthy communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Kentucky natural lands trust (knlt) is working to protect wildlands in central appalachia and beyond. Our primary focus is along pine and cumberland mountains. Our efforts began with raising funds in partnership with the office of kentucky nature preserves to safeguard kentucky's largest remaining tract of old growth forest now known as blanton forest state nature preserves. Since 1995, knlt has protected more than 60,000 acres of wildlands. Through 2024, knlt has directly protected over 19,000 acres and partnered on the protection of an additional 40,500 acres. Knlt continues to steward tens of thousands of wildlands acres both knlt preserves and important conservation areas held by partners.
$1,918,423 spent$108,327 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,918,423.
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 $27M to $35M (+29%).
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: 2018 33% · 2019 13% · 2022 42% · 2023 23% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST 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. 1 of the last 8 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
Greg Abernathy
Executive director
Board chair
Kelly Bartley
Chair and director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell $755k → $266k.
15 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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 NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
41% 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 NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 57% · 2019 57% · 2020 62% · 2021 46% · 2022 69% · 2023 19% — 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
63% of KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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 NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC draws 61% 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. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.0M on record.
- Department of the Interior$7.0M
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 KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST 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
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST 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 NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC?
- KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,049,511 to it, the largest being Fulk Family Foundation Inc ($1,950,500). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $6,049,511 in grants to KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC?
- Fulk Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,950,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 46 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