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THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE OWENSBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS

THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE OWENSBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS (Kentucky) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $256,518 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ($123,200). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$318k
Revenue FY2025
13
Funders on record
$257k
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
5/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 54%

Against its field

THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE OWENSBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve2.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($186k) Expenses 100 ($82k) Net assets 100 ($277k)2018 Revenue 173 ($323k) Expenses 149 ($123k) Net assets 154 ($428k)2019 Revenue 196 ($365k) Expenses 472 ($389k) Net assets 157 ($434k)2020 Revenue 313 ($583k) Expenses 166 ($137k) Net assets 340 ($943k)2021 Revenue 114 ($213k) Expenses 205 ($169k) Net assets 369 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 116 ($216k) Expenses 267 ($220k) Net assets 321 ($891k)2023 Revenue 145 ($270k) Expenses 266 ($219k) Net assets 366 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 233 ($435k) Expenses 423 ($348k) Net assets 400 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 171 ($318k) Expenses 358 ($295k) Net assets 429 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (171)Expenses (358)Net assets (429)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

75% of THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE OWENSBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,851 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$104k
17
$200k
18
$24k
19
$446k
20
$44k
21
$4k
22
$51k
23
$86k
24
$24k
25
2.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $100k → $126.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)55% 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 FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE OWENSBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS’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 FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE OWENSBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

95% 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 THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE OWENSBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS.

48%
largest funder
79%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 80% · 2020 59% · 2021 39% · 2022 95% · 2023 79%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 FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE OWENSBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

55% of THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE OWENSBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS'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 $116k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from Kentucky funders.

WI
NJ
KY
NC
TX

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

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Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $140k 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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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.

Organizations like THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE OWENSBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 23%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

87%

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 THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE OWENSBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS: 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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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 FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE OWENSBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS?
THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE OWENSBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS (Kentucky) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $256,518 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ($123,200). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE OWENSBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $256,518 in grants to THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE OWENSBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE OWENSBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC is the largest funder on record, with $123,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE OWENSBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS 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