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OWENSBORO COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC

OWENSBORO COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,018,662 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC ($484,796). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$716k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
$8.7M
10/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%
01What it does

What Owensboro Community and Technical College Foundation Inc does

Mission

The foundation is a nonprofit corporation formed to support the purposes and promote the further development of the owensboro community and technical college. The foundation's support comes primarily from contributions by individuals, businesses and local governments.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The owensboro community and technical college foundation, inc. Is a nonprofit corporation formed to support the purposes and promote the further development of the owensboro community and technical college. The foundation's support comes primarily from donors' contributions.the foundation provides scholarships to students and financial support for various programs of the owensboro community and technical college.

    $371,760 spentof which $371,760 as grants$20,917 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $371,760.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($448k) Expenses 100 ($193k) Net assets 100 ($4.2M)2019 Revenue 152 ($683k) Expenses 203 ($391k) Net assets 112 ($4.8M)2020 Revenue 70 ($314k) Expenses 143 ($277k) Net assets 115 ($4.9M)2021 Revenue 102 ($455k) Expenses 168 ($324k) Net assets 142 ($6.0M)2022 Revenue 103 ($462k) Expenses 202 ($391k) Net assets 127 ($5.4M)2023 Revenue 212 ($948k) Expenses 168 ($325k) Net assets 153 ($6.5M)2024 Revenue 166 ($742k) Expenses 191 ($369k) Net assets 180 ($7.6M)2025 Revenue 160 ($716k) Expenses 210 ($406k) Net assets 205 ($8.7M)
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Revenue (160)Expenses (210)Net assets (205)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $6.5M to $7.6M (+18%).

$4.2M
$4.8M
$4.9M
$6.0M
$5.4M
$6.5M
$7.6M
$8.7M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 6% · 2019 4% · 2020 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

74% of OWENSBORO COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$255k
’18
$291k
’19
$37k
’20
$131k
’21
$71k
’22
$623k
’23
$373k
’24
$310k
’25
33
months of
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

Sydney Warren

Executive director

Board chair

Amy Jackson

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed2224212118161714
Joined·+2+1+0+1+1+4+0
No longer listed·0404333
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $18k → $107k.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 OWENSBORO COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE 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

OWENSBORO COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

78% 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 OWENSBORO COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC.

48%
largest funder
70%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 51% · 2019 81% · 2020 86% · 2021 59% · 2022 34% · 2023 44% — 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 OWENSBORO COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

73% of OWENSBORO COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

MI
OH
PA
KY
VA
TN
NC

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

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’21
’22
’23
Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $142k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

OWENSBORO COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin43% · top quartile
Months of reserve32.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
71%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

66%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds OWENSBORO COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
OWENSBORO COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,018,662 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC ($484,796). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OWENSBORO COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,018,662 in grants to OWENSBORO COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OWENSBORO COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC is the largest funder on record, with $484,796 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OWENSBORO COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE 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 2018–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing