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THE GIVING FUND INC

THE GIVING FUND INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,043 to it, the largest being CETF FOUNDATION ($13,822). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$500
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$49k
Net assets
$18k
2/5 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What The Giving Fund Inc does

Mission

To raise funds to donate to an annually chosen charity through various events held through the year.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Raised money to donate to the university of cincinnati's barrett cancer center

    $400 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $400.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($10k) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 100 ($10k)2020 Revenue 387 ($39k) Expenses 100 ($17k) Net assets 315 ($31k)2021 Revenue 8 ($775) Expenses 96 ($17k) Net assets 156 ($16k)2022 Revenue 364 ($36k) Expenses 15 ($3k) Net assets 495 ($50k)2023 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 176 ($30k) Net assets 190 ($19k)2024 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 1 ($162) Net assets 189 ($19k)2025 Revenue 5 ($500) Expenses 7 ($1k) Net assets 181 ($18k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (5)Expenses (7)Net assets (181)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 2021 to 2022, from $16k to $50k (+217%).

$10k
$31k
$16k
$50k
$19k
$19k
$18k
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of THE GIVING FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,855 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’19
$21k
’20
−$16k
’21
$34k
’22
−$30k
’23
−$162
’24
−$786
’25
169
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.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed3333333
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $1k.

From the IRS filings of THE GIVING FUND 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 GIVING FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

28%
largest funder
77%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 47% · 2023 100% — 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

THE GIVING FUND INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 3 states in all.

NY
CT
CA

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

THE GIVING FUND INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−157% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve168.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−39% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like THE GIVING FUND 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

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

31% of spending goes to programs.

Program 31%Management 69%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE GIVING FUND INC?
THE GIVING FUND INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,043 to it, the largest being CETF FOUNDATION ($13,822). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE GIVING FUND INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $49,043 in grants to THE GIVING FUND INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE GIVING FUND INC?
CETF FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $13,822 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE GIVING FUND 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing