Kentucky · Nonprofit
THE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE
THE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE (Kentucky) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,372,603 to it, the largest being JAMES GRAHAM BROWN FOUNDATION INC ($1,107,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $701k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $590k
What The Center for Nonprofit Excellence does
Mission
To accelerate the success of nonprofits through capacity building, connections, and community support to amplify the good work of the sector (continued on schedule o).cnpe's membership includes individuals, nonprofits, foundations, businesses, and governments in greater louisville and southern indiana. We help nonprofit leaders and organizations become the best version of themselves. We provide high-quality professional development, consultation, and resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our strategic plan sets out four priorities to help us achieve our mission: 1) strengthen nonprofit impact, which includes focusing our learning, professional development, advocacy, customized consulting on the fundamentals: leadership, board governance, resource development, and nonprofit management. 2) operate through an equity lens, which includes ensuring diverse representation on our board, on our staff, and among our suppliers and vendors; and building connections with and support for black-, brown-, and indigenous-led organizations. (continued on schedule o)3) elevate community leadership & convening, which includes nurturing a thriving nonprofit/social impact sector ecosystem through community convenings, elevating cnpe's community-wide leadership presence, exploring multi-sector partnerships, building awareness of the sector's value, and advocating for more support.4) ensure cnpe sustainability and viability, which includes promoting cnpe's value proposition, resources, and offerings; leveraging technology to elevate our offerings; implementing efficient, effective communications; supporting a robust data management program; and ensuring our financial health through…
$631,162 spent$190,296 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $631,162.
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.
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 $886k to $1.3M (+46%).
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: 2021 6% · 2023 9% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of THE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Das Rooprai
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $30k → $264k.
3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $922k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE raised.
From the IRS filings of THE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE’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 CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 66% · 2019 79% · 2020 44% · 2021 44% · 2022 54% · 2023 58% — 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
64% of THE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
98% of THE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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.
Against its field
THE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
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 THE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE: 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 THE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE?
- THE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE (Kentucky) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,372,603 to it, the largest being JAMES GRAHAM BROWN FOUNDATION INC ($1,107,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $2,372,603 in grants to THE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE?
- JAMES GRAHAM BROWN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,107,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 20 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