Kentucky Wineries Association Commissioners Cup Awards
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471067631
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Nicholasville, KY, USA
- Phone
- 8593213533
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,388
- Expenses
- $2,015
- Assets
- $43,707
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALLEN DOSSEY (PRESIDENT)
- JOE SLOAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CATHY EDWARDS (BOARD MEMBER)
- STEVEN DOSSEY (SECRETARY)
- BRIAN YOUNG (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Produce a commercial ky wine competition
What it reported doing in 2025
Organizedproduced a commercial Kentucky wine competition presented awards to individuals who have made a significant contribution to the Kentucky wine industry and awards to Kentucky wineries who have been judged superior
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 70% for direct work, and 30% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 25%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 54.5%; rating input score 54
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 54.1%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 21.69; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -15.7% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -14.3% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 25% of revenue deployed · 54.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.