Kentucky River Field School Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
992259219
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Winchester, KY, USA
Phone
8596840744
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$85,901
Assets
$23,799
Liabilities
$109,700

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ROBERT SWEENEY (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • ROBERT SWEENEY (PRESIDENT)
  • ERIN LUCAS (DIRECTOR)
  • JARVIS MCKINNEY (DIRECTOR)

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

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to prepare young adult students, in connection with the land, for continual growth, learning, and leadership. We farm, prepare food, learn skills, host events, and study at a 10 acre historic homestead campus, providing time, space, and new educational experiences as a background for making their best next decisions.

What it reported doing in 2024

Kentucky river field school (krfs) offers senior high and post-secondary level work-study educational programs centered around food and farming, arts and entrepreneurship, and project-based learning. Our mission is to prepare young adult students, in connection with the land, for continual growth, learning, and leadership. We farm, prepare food, learn skills, host events, and study at a 10 acre historic homestead campus, providing time, space, and new educational experiences as a background for making their best next decisions. 1 residential "gap year" cohort: july-dec 2024 (5 students). The work-learning focus for this student cohort was farming, culinary, film studies, literature/writing, plant biology and ground maintenance/landscaping. Krfs provided a structured program for high school graduates to explore their future in education, arts, and vocations with faculty devoted to the goal of helping students make best next decisions about their post-secondary paths.future cohorts: non-residential summer farm-to-table internship. The work-learning focus for this cohort will be farming, culinary, ceramics, business development and marketing, and farm-to-table event production/hosting. Residential college prep/work program. The educational focus will be academic skill development to successfully complete online college credit courses with the goal to enroll in community college and then transfer to four-year college/university. The work focus is applied carpentry and greenhouse/wood boiler management, food truck operations.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 34
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 13
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 90.2%; rating input score 90

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 4.61; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 90.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $77K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.