Kentucky · Nonprofit
THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC
THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $914,019 to it, the largest being BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($199,982). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $764k
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $914k
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What The Living Arts & Science Center Inc does
Mission
The living arts & science center inspires participation in the arts and sciences by engaging and educating the community through discovery, exploration, and creativity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Summer camps:watch creativity grow with week-long summer camps for kids pre-k to high-school. Students have the opportunity to immerse themselves in an amazing variety of classes. Virtual classes:online free opportunities and tuition opportunities. Fun and learning is still very much happening at the lasc. Students pre-school through adult can enjoy online classes and videos that spark their imagination in a fun, inspiring, accessible and safe with first-class instruction. Spring break camps:students have the opportunity to immerse themselves in an amazing variety of in person classes. Lunch period is included for students. Free time provided outdoors when weather permits. Aftercare available. Moosnick makerspace:inspires creativity, connects community and facilitates collaboration through multi-disciplinary and ever evolving activities for families and children 6 and under. Combining principals of art and science, the maker space provides a "zone" for self-directed learning, collaboration and intergenerational exchanges through an open concept of sharing materials and ideas and adding on to what was created before. With a variety of rotating activity bins, as well as facilitated…
$752,148 spent$308,352 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $752,148.
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.
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 $5.0M to $4.7M (−6%).
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: 2019 15% · 2020 18% · 2021 18% · 2022 30% · 2023 10% · 2024 16% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 7 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
Jeanette Tesmer
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 12 funders, grant income fell $238k → $71k.
2 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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: $774k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lexarts Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
28% 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 LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 41% · 2019 42% · 2020 28% · 2021 33% · 2022 59% · 2023 35% — 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
36% of THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
71% of THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER 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. $200k 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
THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $914k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $129k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$80k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$49k
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 LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER 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 THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC?
- THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $914,019 to it, the largest being BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($199,982). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $914,019 in grants to THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC?
- BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $199,982 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER 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 36 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