Kentucky · Nonprofit
SHELTOWEE TRACE ASSOCIATION INC
SHELTOWEE TRACE ASSOCIATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,853 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($52,492). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $134k
What Sheltowee Trace Association Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to protect, preserve, and promote the sheltowee trace national recreation trail as a significant national resource for the enjoyment of hikers, bikers, and equestrians and for the value that wild and scenic lands provide to all people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The sheltowee trace association coordinated volunteer stewardship, education, and outreach efforts along the 343-mile sheltowee trace national recreation trail in kentucky and tennessee. During the year, the association organized 48 volunteer workdays, engaging over 300 volunteers who contributed approximately 5,000 hours, maintaining and improving over 150 miles of trail, installing and repairing signage, remove invasive species, and rehabilitate eroded sections. The association also led 24 guided hikes and promoted safe, responsible outdoor recreation and awareness of public lands. These efforts improved trail safety and accessibility, enhanced habitat conditions, and expanded public use and enjoyment of the sheltowee trace corridor.
$119,527 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $119,527.
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.
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 $135k to $178k (+32%).
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.
34% of SHELTOWEE TRACE ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% 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.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Dale Morton
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $21k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 SHELTOWEE TRACE ASSOCIATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 funders by total. 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
SHELTOWEE TRACE ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 SHELTOWEE TRACE ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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
90% of SHELTOWEE TRACE ASSOCIATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Kentucky, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k 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.
Against its field
SHELTOWEE TRACE ASSOCIATION INC's revenue fell 28% between 2022 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHELTOWEE TRACE ASSOCIATION 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 SHELTOWEE TRACE ASSOCIATION INC?
- SHELTOWEE TRACE ASSOCIATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,853 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($52,492). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SHELTOWEE TRACE ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $59,853 in grants to SHELTOWEE TRACE ASSOCIATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHELTOWEE TRACE ASSOCIATION INC?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $52,492 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHELTOWEE TRACE ASSOCIATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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