Kentucky · Nonprofit
THE BOONE CONSERVANCY INC
THE BOONE CONSERVANCY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,475,150 to it, the largest being THE R C DURR FOUNDATION INC 541 BUTTERMILK PIKE SUITE 500 ($1,170,550). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE BOONE CONSERVANCY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,432 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,432 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phdshared funders
- Weconservepaportfolio match
- Atira Conservation Incportfolio match
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.
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 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 87% · 2020 76% · 2021 49% · 2022 51% · 2023 64% · 2024 34% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of THE BOONE CONSERVANCY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $1.2M → $31k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 THE BOONE CONSERVANCY 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
THE BOONE CONSERVANCY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 89% · 2022 87% · 2023 66% — 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
25% of THE BOONE CONSERVANCY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 23% 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
94% of THE BOONE CONSERVANCY INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k 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 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phdshared fundersOH · backs 57 organizations that share your funders
- Weconservepaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Atira Conservation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conservation Trust for North Carolinaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Open Space Institute Land Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rudd Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Covington Charitable Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Butler Parklands Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Pennsylvania Horticultural Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sam Shine Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Land Trust Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Pennsylvania Watershedsportfolio 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 THE BOONE CONSERVANCY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $173k on record.
- Department of the Interior$173k
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 THE BOONE CONSERVANCY 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BOONE CONSERVANCY 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 THE BOONE CONSERVANCY INC?
- THE BOONE CONSERVANCY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,475,150 to it, the largest being THE R C DURR FOUNDATION INC 541 BUTTERMILK PIKE SUITE 500 ($1,170,550). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BOONE CONSERVANCY INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,475,150 in grants to THE BOONE CONSERVANCY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BOONE CONSERVANCY INC?
- THE R C DURR FOUNDATION INC 541 BUTTERMILK PIKE SUITE 500 is the largest funder on record, with $1,170,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BOONE CONSERVANCY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 13funders 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