Kentucky · Nonprofit
LEADERSHIP KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC
LEADERSHIP KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,173,521 to it, the largest being WHITAKER FOUNDATION INC ($800,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Leadership Kentucky Foundation Inc does
Mission
Broadens the perspectives of current and emerging leaders through experiential education that inspires them to advance kentucky.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The core leadership kentucky program began in 1985 and brings together a diverse group of people who possess a broad variety of leadership abilities, career accomplishments, and volunteer activities to gain insight into complex issues facing the state. Through a series of seven monthly, three day sessions, held in various locations in the state, our participants are educated about the commonwealth of kentucky and its challenges. They meet and talk with kentucky's current leaders, and through a systematic educational program, explore the state's opportunities, needs and resources. Kentucky's rich cultural heritage and its unique diversity are woven throughout the curriculum that features the state's economy, education, health and human services, law and justice, military, natural resources, arts, government, and tourism. In addition, leadership kentucky provides a thought-provoking experience focusing on the attributes of leadership and what it means to be a leader. By visiting various regions of the commonwealth, class participants develop an enhanced view and a new meaning to the word community that spans the entire state.during 2022, lky led a class of 51 leaders from across the…
$309,790 spent$216,380 earned by the program57% of program spendingElevate kentucky features approximately 25 members (ages 25 to 35) each year. Elevate kentucky's selected participants pay tuition of 2,200. Elevate kentucky offers young professionals indepth personal and professional development while fostering a better understanding of challenges facing our commonwealth. Elevate participants return to their companies with increased skills, knowledge, perspective, and a new statewide professional network. Millennial leaders are better prepared to be catalysts in their companies and communities in an effort to elevate kentucky.
$49,864 spent$50,600 earned by the program9% of program spendingBright kentucky is designed to build the capacity of next generation leaders (average age 21 to 40 with approximately 42 participants in the cohort) in the appalachian region of kentucky to innovate, collaborate, and advance community and economic development. Bright kentucky engages bright, entrepreneurial minds from all sectors and eastern kentucky regions to offer nonpartisan, ethical leadership training, expanded networks, and mentors designed especially for residents of the 54 kentucky counties of the appalachian regional commission (arc). Bright is funded through a grant from the arc and private contributions from whitaker bank and others.
$183,866 spent34% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $543,520.
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 $2.7M to $3.1M (+18%).
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 7% · 2021 10% · 2022 18% · 2023 17% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of LEADERSHIP KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $11k → $222k.
1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $15k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money LEADERSHIP KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of LEADERSHIP KENTUCKY 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
LEADERSHIP KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 66% · 2019 55% · 2020 57% · 2021 73% · 2022 83% · 2023 90% — 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.
How long its funders stay
80% of LEADERSHIP KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 91% 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
88% of LEADERSHIP KENTUCKY FOUNDATION 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. $21 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LEADERSHIP KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,003 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding LEADERSHIP KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $581k on record.
- Appalachian Regional Commission$500k
- Department of Agriculture$81k
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 LEADERSHIP KENTUCKY 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEADERSHIP KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC?
- LEADERSHIP KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,173,521 to it, the largest being WHITAKER FOUNDATION INC ($800,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEADERSHIP KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,173,521 in grants to LEADERSHIP KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEADERSHIP KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC?
- WHITAKER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEADERSHIP KENTUCKY 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.
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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 11 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