Kentucky Academy of Science
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 611135572
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2013
- Location
- Louisville, KY, USA
- Phone
- 8592272837
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $136,351
- Expenses
- $142,897
- Assets
- $847,292
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Amanda Fuller (Executive Director)
- Noel Novelo (President)
- Julie Ann Reizner (Past President)
- Lili Zyzak (President Elect)
- Jessica Moon (Vice - President)
Highest reported compensation
- Amanda Fuller (Executive Director): $32,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the Kentucky Academy of Science (KAS) is to catalyze scientific communication and collaboration that improves research, education, and public engagement with science in Commonwealth of Kentucky.
What it reported doing in 2024
Fostered scientific discovery in the state of Kentucky.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 68% for direct work, and 32% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 49
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.9%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 67.1%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 57.1%; rating input score 57; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -4.8%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.93; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.4%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.9% of revenue deployed · 67.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 14 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $96K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $32K · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.