Kentucky · Nonprofit
MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS
MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS (Kentucky) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $533,905 to it, the largest being BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($205,227). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $699k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $534k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Montgomery County Council for the Arts does
Mission
The gateway regional arts center leverages the transformative power of art and culture to addres critical community challenges by providing extraordinary creative experiences, sharing local and global perspectives, and promoting the arts as an important solution to holistic well-being. The institution serves as a flagship hub of arts & cultural education for central and eastern kentucky, and aims to foster civic dialogue through creative and artistic activities that are accessible to all people, honoring the rich diversity of voices in our rural communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organization produced over 350 community arts events, including visual art exhibitions, concerts and gallery receptions. These programs engageed more than 28,000 individuals across central and eastern kentucky and supported the organization's mission to increase cultural participation in rural areas. The organization hosted numerous performances including finding nemo: the musical, the laramie project, and the 36th annual advent musicale. These performances brought together professional and local talent and regularly played to sold out audiences, supporting regional access to performing arts.
$194,166 spent$318,933 earned by the program92% of program spendingThe eastern kentucky academy for the arts provided over 125 free and low-cost arts education classes and workshops. The program reached more than 5,000 youth and adults from 33 counties, expanding access to creative learning opportunities in rural and underserved regions. Programs included "art of recovery", for incarcerated women, and "gateway to wellbeing", 80 free workshops in 4 counties. These programs serve marginalized groups including foster youth, veterans, seniors and low income residents. These initiatives used arts engagement to improve social connection and mental health.
$17,097 spent8% of program spendingIn 2024, grac expanded its permanent collection through a $175,000 in kind donation of 65 works by feminist artist linda stein. It continued exhibiting the largest contemporary kenyan art collection in north american and implemented cultural equity policies to support inclusive representation in all programs.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $211,263.
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 $1.7M to $1.8M (+9%).
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: 2019 23% · 2020 22% · 2022 13% · 2023 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Jordan Campball
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $32k → $30k.
4 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS’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
MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 55% · 2023 50% — 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
50% of MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% 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
MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $226k 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
MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $137k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$74k
- National Endowment for the Arts$64k
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 MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS
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
47% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS: 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 MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS?
- MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS (Kentucky) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $533,905 to it, the largest being BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($205,227). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $533,905 in grants to MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS?
- BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $205,227 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS 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 22 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