Kentucky · Nonprofit
Partners for Rural Impact Inc
Partners for Rural Impact Inc (Kentucky) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,435,801 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($7,980,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Partners for Rural Impact Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- Laura and John Arnold Foundationshared funders
- Everhope Foundationportfolio match
- Arrow Impactportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
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: 2023 55% · 2024 74% · 2025 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Partners for Rural Impact Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $2.1M → $9.7M.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 Partners for Rural Impact 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
Partners for Rural Impact Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 Partners for Rural Impact Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 58% · 2023 72% — 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.
Where its funders are
Partners for Rural Impact Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
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 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Laura and John Arnold Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
- Everhope Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arrow Impactportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hampshire Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sall Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Einhorn Collaborativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- PGBeil Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Skyline Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stand Together Chamber of Commerce Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Visions Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Robert S & Star Pepper Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chestnut Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Government funding Partners for Rural Impact Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $117.4M on record.
- Department of Education$110.2M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$4.2M
- Department of Justice$2.0M
- Appalachian Regional Commission$960k
- National Endowment for the Arts$105k
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 Partners for Rural Impact 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 20 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Partners for Rural Impact 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.
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 Partners for Rural Impact Inc?
- Partners for Rural Impact Inc (Kentucky) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,435,801 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($7,980,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Partners for Rural Impact Inc have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $20,435,801 in grants to Partners for Rural Impact Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Partners for Rural Impact Inc?
- BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,980,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Partners for Rural Impact 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 15funders 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