Kentucky · Nonprofit
LUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER INC
LUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,372,634 to it, the largest being CARSON-MYRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($10,967,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $65M
What Luther F Carson Four Rivers Center Inc does
Mission
The mission of the luther f. Carson four rivers center (the carson center for the performing arts) is to enhance the quality of life in the four rivers region as a leader in presenting exceptional live performances and cultural experiences that are entertaining, educational, and economically beneficial for our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The carson center is a regional performing arts center that presents performances and programs for audiences of all ages throughout the year. Almost all are part of national tours by professional performing artists. The carson center also works with local artists, teachers, and librarians to host arts-education and audience engagement experiences for children, youth, and adults at the center and in the community. The live performances at the carson center include broadway productions, concerts, comedians, plays by theatre companies, dance, and entertainment for children and families. Since the carson center's opening in 2004, almost 2 million people from throughout the nation have visited the facility for its performances, special programs, and events.
$4,353,069 spent$4,929,548 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,353,069.
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 2020 to 2021, from $58M to $63M (+8%).
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: 2017 9% · 2018 8% · 2019 9% · 2020 23% · 2021 12% · 2022 31% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of LUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Mary Katz
Executive director
Board chair
Sandra Wilson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $204k → $2.9M.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 LUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER 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
LUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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 49% · 2018 44% · 2019 94% · 2020 95% · 2021 96% · 2022 99% · 2023 52% — 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
100% of LUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
100% of LUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER 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. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
LUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER 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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER INC?
- LUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,372,634 to it, the largest being CARSON-MYRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($10,967,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $13,372,634 in grants to LUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER INC?
- CARSON-MYRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,967,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing