Kentucky · Nonprofit
NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,609,992 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,287,689). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $8.6M
- Net assets
- $157M
What Northern Kentucky University Foundation Inc does
Mission
The mission of northern kentucky university foundation is to secure, invest, steward, and distribute private resources in support of northern kentucky university, to advocate for the university's best interests, and to build lasting relationships with alumni and friends.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Student financial aid
$3,187,508 spentof which $3,187,508 as grants33% of program spendingAcademic support
$1,376,399 spentof which $801,743 as grants14% of program spendingInstitutional support
$1,246,856 spentof which $719,330 as grants13% of program spendingInstruction, public service, university facilities and equipment acquisition, libraries, student services, research
$3,761,945 spentof which $2,057,168 as grants39% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,572,708.
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 $123M to $152M (+24%).
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 7% · 2020 4% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
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
Eric Gentry
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 24 funders, grant income fell $1.0M → $685k.
14 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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: $3.7M from 11 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky). These are real filings, and they are not money NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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 UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
43% 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 UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 48% · 2019 30% · 2020 44% · 2021 22% · 2022 31% · 2023 20% — 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
33% of NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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 UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
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 11 related entities
- Nkuf Properties 1 LLC · disregarded
- Nkuf Properties 2 LLC · disregarded
- Nkuf Properties 3 LLC · disregarded
- Nkuf Properties 4 LLC · disregarded
- Nkuf Properties 6 LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC?
- NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,609,992 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,287,689). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $8,609,992 in grants to NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,287,689 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY 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.
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 63 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