Kentucky · Nonprofit
KENTUCKY RESOURCES COUNCIL INC
KENTUCKY RESOURCES COUNCIL INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,803,181 to it, the largest being ELHAPA FOUNDATION INC ($461,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Kentucky Resources Council Inc does
Mission
Kentucky resources council (krc) is a public-interest environmental law and advocacy organization that works to protect and defend the people, communities, and natural resources of kentucky. Krc uses legal and strategic advocacy to protect kentucky's natural resources, advocate for environmental health and justice, and teach citizens to be effective environmental stewards. We provide our legal services without charge to individuals and organizations that cannot find or afford representation on energy and environmental matters.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The largest program area for krc is the kentucky environmental accountability project (keap), a program to advance environmental quality, health, and justice in kentucky. Keap combines meaningful public participation, science- backed information, and technical and legal expertise to ensure that kentucky's environmental decisions better protect public health, the environment, and our climate. Krc also continues to represent a coalition of low-income, clean energy, and social and economic justice partners in cases before the kentucky public service commission, working to protect ratepayers and advocating for a cleaner, more sustainable, and more equitable energy future.
$363,353 spent49% of program spendingThe second largest program for krc is our environmental and community defense program. We provide free legal assistance to individuals and community groups living "downwind, downstream, and downhill" of environmental problems, who cannot afford or find representation. We also work programmatically through litigation and advocacy to improve the quality of life for all kentuckians and to assure that those who pollute our land, air, or water are held accountable.
$163,844 spent22% of program spendingThe third largest program area for krc is education and outreach which includes online and in person presentations on topics such as understanding issues around data centers, to give citizens tools to better protect the places they live and love. Krc also tabled and our staff gave talks at public events throughout the state, raising environmental awareness and doing outreach and engagement to advance a cleaner, healthier kentucky.
$145,870 spent20% of program spendingThe last program area for krc is the center for environmental policy, which conducts research, provides policy analysis, and educates the public and policymakers on important energy and environmental issues impacting kentucky. Krc also engages in, within irs limits, lobbying on key environmental, conservation, energy, and general government bills during the kentucky general assembly.
$63,717 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $736,784.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $193k to $1.0M (+418%).
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: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of KENTUCKY RESOURCES COUNCIL 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. 2 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.
Board chair
Tim Heine
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $85k → $501k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 RESOURCES COUNCIL 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 RESOURCES COUNCIL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
48% 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 RESOURCES COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 38% · 2019 51% · 2020 39% · 2021 45% · 2022 58% · 2023 26% — 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
60% of KENTUCKY RESOURCES COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% 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
70% of KENTUCKY RESOURCES COUNCIL 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. $873k 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.
Against its field
KENTUCKY RESOURCES COUNCIL INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like KENTUCKY RESOURCES COUNCIL 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KENTUCKY RESOURCES COUNCIL 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 RESOURCES COUNCIL INC?
- KENTUCKY RESOURCES COUNCIL INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,803,181 to it, the largest being ELHAPA FOUNDATION INC ($461,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KENTUCKY RESOURCES COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,803,181 in grants to KENTUCKY RESOURCES COUNCIL INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KENTUCKY RESOURCES COUNCIL INC?
- ELHAPA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $461,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KENTUCKY RESOURCES COUNCIL 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 24 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