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Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc
Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc (Kentucky) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,926,908 to it, the largest being NATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC ($11,968,880). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc does
Mission
Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission promotes, educates, advocates, and provides equitable services to elevate the quality of life for the people we serve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Children's Services programs operate a Head Start preschool program and daycare for three and four year-old children. The Head Start Program is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; The daycare program provides supplemental daycare services for children participating in Head Start classes and is funded by the State of Kentucky and privately by individuals using the services. Additionally, NKCAC operates an Early Head Start Child Care Partnership that includes five community child care providers who supply daycare for infants and toddlers. The USDA Child Care Food Program supplements the feeding of the children in the Head Start and Early Head Start programs. As a program under Child Development, the Community Collaboration for Children (CCC) program expands and enhances community based and federal initiatives aimed at supporting and strengthening families to reduce the likelihood of child abuse and neglect. The CCC program is funded by the U.S. Department of health and Human Services and passed through the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
$8,546,047 spentof which $726,153 as grants52% of program spendingFamily Service programs combine Community Services, Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), and YouthBuild training. The Community Services programs provide assistance through neighborhood centers in each of the eight counties serviced by NKCAC. Services include rental, prescription, housing, food and utilities assistance vouchers. Several of the centers maintain a food pantry and clothing closet. Center staff also provide child care assistance referrals. Funds to operate these programs include U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Community Service Block Grant funds passed through the Kentucky Cabinet for Families and Children. Kynector, a program intended to educate the population about the Health Benefit Exchange under the Affordable Health Care Act. The program, funded through the Department of Health and Human Services, passed through the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, provides assistance to Kentuckians about insurance affordability programs and coverage options to enable informed decisions when selecting and enrolling in health plans. The LIHEAP program provides heating assistance in the form of utility vouchers to low income…
$5,416,701 spentof which $2,240,998 as grants$125,406 earned by the program33% of program spendingCommunity Development programs combine Senior Training, Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) offers qualified individuals fifty-five (55) years old the opportunity to obtain training to get back into the work force. The SCSEP program is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, passed through the National Council on Aging.
$1,661,369 spent10% of program spendingWeatherization and Housing Services: The Weatherization program provides home weatherization and energy efficiency services to lower income homeowners and renters. Funds for this program are passed through the Kentucky Housing Corporation and Kentucky Organization of Community Action Agencies from the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
$712,006 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,336,123.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $13M to $18M (+37%).
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 86% · 2018 90% · 2019 92% · 2020 93% · 2021 95% · 2022 94% · 2023 93% · 2024 94% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Catrena Bowman
Executive Director
Board chair
Lewis Diaz
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $1.9M.
6 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. 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
Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 82% · 2019 88% · 2020 81% · 2021 65% · 2022 71% · 2023 67% — 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
41% of Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $418k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Government funding Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $95.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$87.2M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$5.6M
- Department of Labor$2.2M
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 Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission 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
88% 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
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- NKCAC Ridgewood North LLC · disregarded
- NKCAC Farmview Apartments LLC · disregarded
- Ridgewood North LP · partnership
- Union Farmview LLLP · partnership
- Lincoln Grant Scholar House LLLP · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc?
- Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc (Kentucky) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,926,908 to it, the largest being NATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC ($11,968,880). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $15,926,908 in grants to Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc?
- NATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,968,880 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission 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 31 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