Kentucky · Nonprofit
KENTUCKY RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION
KENTUCKY RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,713,413 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION ($7,713,413). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $7.7M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Kentucky Rural Water Association does
Mission
To help local water districts operate effectively & efficiently.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
All programs are designed to assist local water & wastewater districts in securing financing & education for system development & expansion, promote water conservation & assist them in compliance with state & federal drinking water act. Grants to accomplish these goals are from the epa & the usda rural development through the national rural water association.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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.
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 $3.1M to $3.8M (+21%).
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: 2020 63% · 2021 64% · 2022 53% · 2023 57% · 2024 51% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $898k → $1.4M.
From the IRS filings of KENTUCKY RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION’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.
Where its funders are
KENTUCKY RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Government funding KENTUCKY RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $600k on record.
- Appalachian Regional Commission$600k
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 RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Kentucky Rural Water Finance Corp · exempt
- Rural Water Finance Agency · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KENTUCKY RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION: 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 RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION?
- KENTUCKY RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,713,413 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION ($7,713,413). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KENTUCKY RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,713,413 in grants to KENTUCKY RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KENTUCKY RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION?
- NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,713,413 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KENTUCKY RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION 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 1 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