Kentucky · Nonprofit
WITNESSING HISTORY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
WITNESSING HISTORY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $424,335 to it, the largest being THE FRANCES AND BEVERLY DUBOSE FOUNDATION INC ($350,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WITNESSING HISTORY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- The Beehive Foundation Incshared funders
- American Historical Associationportfolio match
- National Society Daughters of the American Revolutionportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 10% · 2022 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of WITNESSING HISTORY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $50k → $23k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 WITNESSING HISTORY EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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
WITNESSING HISTORY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 66% · 2023 93% — 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.
Where its funders are
WITNESSING HISTORY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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.
- The Beehive Foundation Incshared fundersGA · backs 4 organizations that share your funders
- American Historical Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Society Daughters of the American Revolutionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- America250org Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Maportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnatiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- General Society of Colonial Warsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New York Council for the Humanitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Historic Preservation Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Better Angels Society Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Donors Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 WITNESSING HISTORY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
9% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WITNESSING HISTORY EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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.
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 WITNESSING HISTORY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
- WITNESSING HISTORY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $424,335 to it, the largest being THE FRANCES AND BEVERLY DUBOSE FOUNDATION INC ($350,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WITNESSING HISTORY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $424,335 in grants to WITNESSING HISTORY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WITNESSING HISTORY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
- THE FRANCES AND BEVERLY DUBOSE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WITNESSING HISTORY EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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