Kcf Kentucky Conservation Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
310999716
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Frankfort, KY, USA
Phone
5022099659
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$111,485
Expenses
$151,696
Assets
$232,151
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Raymond Barry (President)

People named in this filing

  • Raymond Barry (President)
  • Alice Howell (Secretary)
  • Donna DePenning (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Supports powerful and innovative programs to build capacity for communities in Kentucky, to build a cleaner and sustainable future.

What it reported doing in 2025

Clean and Sustainable Energy Project. KY Clean Energy Advocacy Network Support: Support the team of pro-solar organizations with their education and strategy work. Includes contributing to shared support for a dedicated coordinator to manage the c3 group work within the Kentuckians for Energy Democracy coalition, and also engaging with a multi-state coalition focusing on the same Energy Democracy work in order to share strategies and tools. Nuclear Generating Plants: Monitor discussions. Renewable Siting, Energy Democracy: Continue the public education campaign on large-scale solar projects and advocate for responsible use of land/best land management practices for clean energy projects. Continue to engage in education opportunities and best practices for distributed solar, educating the public and agencies on resources and trends including storage, working with groups such as the Kentuckians for Energy Democracy coalition (K4ED) and Ky. Solar Energy Society (KySES). This includes work with K4ED on strategies to engage the public on the value of their Public Service Commission and the need for citizens to understand the process and engage. Update a new edition of the KCC Solar Siting guide, based on new laws passed in 2023 Transportation: Increase public education on transportation-related energy issues, including electric vehicles, increased charging infrastructure, public transportation. Energy Efficiency: Continue to engage with groups on EE and building electrification initiatives, including building codes, and coalitions such as the LG&E/Kentucky Utilities Demand Side Management group to find pathways to advance efficiency programs. Health: Engage in education opportunities and public health impacts relating to dirty energy vs. clean energy and efficiency alternatives. Heavy Industry Decarbonization: Working with allies in the Sustainable Aluminum Network, participate in weekly calls with the coalition, and help them address heavy manufacturing issues and clean energy procurement specific to Kentucky and its Aluminum industry by way of research and media.How do I cahne the battery on

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 89
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 83.3%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -36.1%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.53; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -10.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -13% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 83.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 7 filed program accomplishments · $126K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 27 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.