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Western Kentucky University
Western Kentucky University (Kentucky) receives grants from 106 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,581,966 to it, the largest being CONFERENCE USA ($63,382,168). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
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- Funders on record
- 106
- Grants received
- $39M
- Net assets
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Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Western Kentucky University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 106 funders by total. Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
Western Kentucky University leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
How long its funders stay
50% of Western Kentucky University's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
Western Kentucky University draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 26 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Government funding Western Kentucky University receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $123.7M on record — $123.7M federal, $2k state.
- Department of Education$82.4M
- Department of Health and Human Services$26.7M
- Department of Agriculture$7.0M
- National Science Foundation$3.5M
- Department of Labor$1.3M
- Department of the Interior$929k
- ASSOC DUES AND CONF FEES$2k
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 Western Kentucky University
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.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Western Kentucky University: 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 Western Kentucky University?
- Western Kentucky University (Kentucky) receives grants from 106 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,581,966 to it, the largest being CONFERENCE USA ($63,382,168). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Western Kentucky University have?
- IRS filings report 106 organizations giving $38,581,966 in grants to Western Kentucky University, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Western Kentucky University?
- CONFERENCE USA is the largest funder on record, with $63,382,168 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Western Kentucky University 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 FY2023, and the filings of 106 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing