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Queer Kentucky Inc

Queer Kentucky Inc (Kentucky) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $706,012 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR A HEALTHY KENTUCKY INC ($422,901). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$621k
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$706k
Net assets
$151k
2/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 66%
01What it does

What Queer Kentucky Inc does

Mission

Bolster and enhance Queer culture

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Partners with businesses and organizations on their inclusivity efforts regarding LGBTQ employees and work culture

    $57,644 spent$125,354 earned by the program
    17% of program spending
  2. Our storytelling approach gives visibility to LGBTQ folx in KY

    $286,152 spent$495,174 earned by the program
    83% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $343,796.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($66k) Expenses 100 ($36k) Net assets 100 ($35k)2021 Revenue 219 ($144k) Expenses 447 ($161k) Net assets 53 ($18k)2022 Revenue 401 ($265k) Expenses 570 ($205k) Net assets 230 ($80k)2023 Revenue 580 ($383k) Expenses 1049 ($377k) Net assets 247 ($86k)2024 Revenue 941 ($621k) Expenses 1545 ($555k) Net assets 436 ($151k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (941)Expenses (1545)Net assets (436)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 $86k to $151k (+76%).

$35k
$18k
$80k
$86k
$151k
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 17% · 2023 62% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of Queer Kentucky Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$30k
’20
−$16k
’21
$60k
’22
$6k
’23
$66k
’24
3.1
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

Melissa Spears

Executive Director

Board chair

Mandy Ralston

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

202220232024
Listed81212
Joined·+8+1
No longer listed·41
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $16k → $253k.

3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Queer Kentucky 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

Queer Kentucky Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 Queer Kentucky Inc.

60%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 63% · 2022 90% · 2023 88% — 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

95% of Queer Kentucky Inc's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

MI
OH
KY
FL

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

’20
’22
’23
Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Queer Kentucky Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)75% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Queer Kentucky 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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 24%Fundraising 14%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

64%

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 Queer Kentucky 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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Questions and answers

Who funds Queer Kentucky Inc?
Queer Kentucky Inc (Kentucky) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $706,012 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR A HEALTHY KENTUCKY INC ($422,901). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Queer Kentucky Inc have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $706,012 in grants to Queer Kentucky Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Queer Kentucky Inc?
FOUNDATION FOR A HEALTHY KENTUCKY INC is the largest funder on record, with $422,901 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Queer Kentucky 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 14 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