Kentucky · Nonprofit
WOMEN LEADING KENTUCKY INC
WOMEN LEADING KENTUCKY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,200 to it, the largest being Baptist Healthcare System Inc ($25,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $118k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $38k
- Net assets
- $54k
What Women Leading Kentucky Inc does
Mission
Women leading kentucky (wlk) is an educational organization. Wlk provides events to educate women and men in areas of business and leadership. Wlk also provides college scholarships to women who demonstrate leadership on their campuses or in their communities. The organization strives to ensure that deserving women have every opportunity to attain the education necessary to become great leaders.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Women's business and leadership conference: each year, the organization conducts an educational conference that provides attendees with business & leadership information to help them improve their ability to lead in their communities & careers. The conference also provides a platform for recognizing role models and leaders across kentucky and for presenting college scholarships to young women in kentucky institutions of higher education.
$119,889 spent$40,050 earned by the program65% of program spendingRoundtable luncheons: a series of luncheon programs that feature prominent kentuckians as speakers. The programs provide attendees the opportunity to share and learn from challenges addressed in their careers.
$64,554 spent$17,114 earned by the program35% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $184,443.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $213k to $132k (−38%).
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 18% · 2022 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of WOMEN LEADING KENTUCKY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Opa Johnson
Executive director
Board chair
Tukea Talbert
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $50 → $1k.
From the IRS filings of WOMEN LEADING KENTUCKY 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
WOMEN LEADING KENTUCKY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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
65% 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 WOMEN LEADING KENTUCKY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 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
89% of WOMEN LEADING KENTUCKY 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. 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
WOMEN LEADING KENTUCKY INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WOMEN LEADING KENTUCKY 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WOMEN LEADING KENTUCKY 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 WOMEN LEADING KENTUCKY INC?
- WOMEN LEADING KENTUCKY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,200 to it, the largest being Baptist Healthcare System Inc ($25,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN LEADING KENTUCKY INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $38,200 in grants to WOMEN LEADING KENTUCKY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN LEADING KENTUCKY INC?
- Baptist Healthcare System Inc is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN LEADING KENTUCKY 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 4 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