Kentucky · Nonprofit
NORTHEAST KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC
NORTHEAST KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,500 to it, the largest being NISOURCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($18,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $47k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $29k
- Net assets
- $33k
What Northeast Kentucky Foundation Inc does
Mission
To enhance the quality of life in our community and to improve the business climate for existing bussinesses and to attract new businesses to the area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
To conduct the youth leadership educational program. This program is open to all area high school juniors, including the underprivileged and economically disadvanted, to develop responsibility and leadership qualities.
$1,668 spent7% of program spendingTo conduct the winter wonderland of lights festival which provides a free parade and free attractions for the community.
$22,614 spent93% of program spendingTo distribute backpacks containing clothing and school supplies to underprivileged children and to provide for specific underprivileged families.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $24,282.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $45k to $24k (−46%).
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.
87% of NORTHEAST KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Richard Reames
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $4k → $7k.
From the IRS filings of NORTHEAST 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
NORTHEAST KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
35% 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 NORTHEAST KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
NORTHEAST KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 2 states 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.
Against its field
NORTHEAST KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like NORTHEAST 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.
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHEAST KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC?
- NORTHEAST KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,500 to it, the largest being NISOURCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($18,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHEAST KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $28,500 in grants to NORTHEAST KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHEAST KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC?
- NISOURCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $18,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHEAST 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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