The Kentucky Ground Water Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 611329663
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Westerville, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6148987791
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $43,962
- Expenses
- $40,844
- Assets
- $59,210
- Liabilities
- $22,787
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Todd Mills (Past President)
- Laurie Schneider (President)
- John Bowman (Vice President)
- Dave Schulenberg (Staff/Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Todd Mills (Past President)
- Laurie Schneider (President)
- Orris Hayes (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To raise awareness of saving and protecting Kentucky ground water
What it reported doing in 2025
The expenses are to provide education to preserve the ground water quality and quantity for the state of Kentucky
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 61% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 51.1%; rating input score 51
- Program expense ratio: 55%; rating input score 55
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.1%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.45; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 51.1% of revenue deployed · 55% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $22K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.