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Kentucky · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Kentucky) is funded by 229 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $77,414,204 in grants to it, the largest being American Heart Association Inc ($9,899,580). 117 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 651 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 651 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2023
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
2% of UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
$1.7M from 8 funders in 2025, up from $4.0M and 12 in 2017.
21 of 229 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 229 funders by total. Association, not causation.
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 23% · 2019 22% · 2020 11% · 2021 6% · 2022 18% · 2023 12% · 2024 18% · 2025 42% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
25% of UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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.
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 39 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 229 funders put you typical 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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
99% of spending goes to programs.
Operates in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 229funders 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. view filing