Kentucky · Nonprofit
ORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF KENTUCKY
ORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF KENTUCKY (Kentucky) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $757,869 to it, the largest being OWSLEY BROWN II FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($280,900). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $758k
- Net assets
- $540k
What Organic Association of Kentucky does
Mission
To improve the health of the environment and communities by advancing organic regenerative agriculture to grow ecological resilience, economic viability and socially just futures for kentucky farmers through educational, technical and market resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Soil health project supports kentucky farmers in assessing and improving the biological, physical, and economic resilience of their operations. Farmer participants use oaks farm tool to assess whole-farm resilience. Farmers, with support from technical assistance staff, develop strategies to improve whole-farm resilience and to align farm products and ecological and social impacts with emerging market opportunities. Incentives are paid to farmers for participation and marketing activities.
$208,777 spent21% of program spendingKentucky farm share coalition workplace wellness csa program connects farms with employers to offer employees health benefits towards the purchase of a community supported agriculture (csa) share. Employer partners pay oak a service fee and monies that pass along to participating farms for a portion of the csa. Activities develop partnerships and a network of farmers working to advance local food as health programs and increase fresh food access.
$282,196 spent29% of program spendingAnnual organic farming conference provide an annual conference in kentucky for farmers and other stakeholders on the benefits and methods of regenerative, organic and sustainable agriculture.
$118,830 spent12% of program spendingField days; general education; technical assistance for conservation, organic production and organic certification on-farm field days and farmer education workshops and webinars to highlight organic practices, conservation practices and resources to advance farm resilience and improve productivity. Technical assistance to support organic production, organic certification, conservation and marketing.
$369,094 spent38% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $978,897.
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 2022 to 2023, from $336k to $683k (+104%).
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 8% · 2018 8% · 2019 5% · 2020 12% · 2021 18% · 2022 23% · 2023 23% · 2024 37% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of ORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF KENTUCKY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Andrew Oles
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $83k → $97k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 ORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF KENTUCKY’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
ORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF KENTUCKY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 ORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF KENTUCKY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 58% · 2019 73% · 2020 29% · 2021 53% · 2022 72% · 2023 78% — 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
44% of ORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF KENTUCKY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
68% of ORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF KENTUCKY's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $324k 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
ORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF KENTUCKY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 655 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF KENTUCKY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.6M
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 ORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF KENTUCKY
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
84% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF KENTUCKY?
- ORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF KENTUCKY (Kentucky) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $757,869 to it, the largest being OWSLEY BROWN II FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($280,900). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF KENTUCKY have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $757,869 in grants to ORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF KENTUCKY, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF KENTUCKY?
- OWSLEY BROWN II FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $280,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF KENTUCKY 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 13 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