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OLDHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC

OLDHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $907,366 to it, the largest being PEYTON SAMUEL HEAD FAMILY TRUST ($391,555). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$495k
Revenue FY2025
19
Funders on record
$907k
Grants received
$4.5M
Net assets
12/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 55%

Against its field

OLDHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve6.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($733k) Expenses 100 ($238k) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2018 Revenue 47 ($343k) Expenses 92 ($220k) Net assets 104 ($3.2M)2019 Revenue 34 ($247k) Expenses 99 ($236k) Net assets 104 ($3.2M)2020 Revenue 146 ($1.1M) Expenses 98 ($234k) Net assets 134 ($4.1M)2021 Revenue 39 ($283k) Expenses 105 ($250k) Net assets 135 ($4.1M)2022 Revenue 52 ($380k) Expenses 129 ($307k) Net assets 133 ($4.1M)2023 Revenue 50 ($365k) Expenses 127 ($302k) Net assets 140 ($4.3M)2024 Revenue 57 ($419k) Expenses 162 ($387k) Net assets 143 ($4.4M)2025 Revenue 68 ($495k) Expenses 175 ($418k) Net assets 146 ($4.5M)
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Revenue (68)Expenses (175)Net assets (146)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 1% · 2021 3% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

53% of OLDHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$495k
17
$122k
18
$11k
19
$839k
20
$32k
21
$72k
22
$63k
23
$32k
24
$77k
25
6.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $185k → $82k.

6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)29% 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 OLDHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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

OLDHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

29% 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 OLDHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC.

43%
largest funder
75%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 69% · 2019 81% · 2020 51% · 2021 65% · 2022 76% · 2023 70%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

47% of OLDHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

OLDHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 4 states in all.

NV
KY
VA
TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $259k 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like OLDHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Kentucky

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

55% of spending goes to programs.

Program 55%Management 25%Fundraising 20%

Governance

14
board members
0%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

70%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OLDHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds OLDHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
OLDHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $907,366 to it, the largest being PEYTON SAMUEL HEAD FAMILY TRUST ($391,555). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OLDHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $907,366 in grants to OLDHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OLDHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
PEYTON SAMUEL HEAD FAMILY TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $391,555 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OLDHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 19funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing