Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$119,404

Total expenses

$138,713

Contributions and grants received

$119,404

Grants paid

$116,000

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$272,362

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$272,362

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$116,300

Management and general expenses

$22,413

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$116,300

Program services were 83.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• Clean and Sustainable Energy Project Ky Clean Energy Advocacy Network Support: Continue to 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. 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.

  Expenses $35,000 · Grants $35,000

• Climate Plan Education: Continue to help inform local and state government and community nonprofits about financial opportunities from the Inflation Reduction Act, Infrastructure Act, and similar Federal programs where communities can organize climate-reduction and climate-resilience projects. Produce an updated third edition of KCC's Key Steps guide. Continue educational opportunities for locally-based programs in cities and towns. Partner with local community-based project groups such as the Bluegrass Climate Action Team, Louisville Climate Action Network, Bluegrass Greensource Energy Efficiency Team, Kentucky Environmental Educators and similar local groups to amplify local climate messaging and implementation. Inform the public of funding opportunities through federal initiatives, Highlighting climate resiliency, environmental justice and equity opportunities. Voter education/engagement activities on climate issues (c3). Continue to inform the public about the environmental and substantial climate change impacts of Digital Currency (Bitcoin/Crypto) and other emerging climate-impacting threats, and continue networking and sharing information with multi-state allies on this issue.

  Expenses $25,000 · Grants $25,000

• Infrastructure, Toxics and Waste: Continue to provide content maintenance and updates to the kybeyondfossilfuels.org website and maintain the kybeyondfossilfuels facebook page to include more information about pipeline protests, health risks of natural gas and benefits of electrification rather than gas. Use this forum to gather new allies. Stay current to provide information to the public, and that we can provide continuing support for allied groups and communities executing local action plans. Help with education campaigns on infrastructure projects and land rights. Highlight environmental issues relating to abandoned gas wells and the need to cap wells. Support Bernheim Arboretum land/pipeline controversy by helping to distribute and amplify Bernheim's messaging and the messaging of local citizen groups. Build out public information on small-scale projects that may increase oil and gas operations, such as distributed energy use for cryptocurrency. Water Infrastructure: In collaboration with citizen water networks, amplify core messaging from citizen groups on problems and solutions, working with Concerned Citizens of Martin County and the Eastern KY Water Network.

  Expenses $15,000 · Grants $15,000

• Biodiversity Education: Continue to promote wildlife corridors and habitat connectivity as a way to build resiliency for wildlife and pollinators. This may include utility corridors such as gas, solar and transmission infrastructure and the state's rare plant research along roadways. Promote information to reduce conflicts between infrastructure and rare species. Monitor species-related issues and keep the public informed on the proposed developments in the Red River Gorge (either commercial developments or forest service initiatives). Continue to disseminate information and progress on Kentucky's Pollinator and Monarch Plans: participate in pollinator plan-related meetings, disseminate information through public channels. Tie in native plant information on pollinators where applicable. Continue social media education: through facebook and similar online channels. Post regularly on biodiversity issues. Continue to support groups working on sensitive habitat issues in and around the Daniel Boone forest and Red River Gorge. Educate coalitions about opportunities for biodiversity initiatives and wildlife corridors within new federal funding dedicated to these kinds of projects.

  Expenses $10,000 · Grants $10,000

• Nonpartisan voter outreach and voter engagement, particularly focusing on regions where there is not a strong presence such as certain rural areas. Hold "town hall" style outreach events. Hold "get out the vote" set of nonpartisan activities, either virtual, in-person, or a combination, utilizing texting, social media, and/or in person tabling.

  Expenses $8,000 · Grants $8,000

• Land Conservation and Stewardship: Continue to educate the public on capacity and funding for lands protection and resulting impacts. Build new website database for information on land conservation. Continue to find and leverage new studies on the economic value of conservation and outdoor recreation lands. Partner with agricultural groups on addressing farmland conservation. Promote information about wildlands corridors on the KCF website, facebook pages and other public spaces. Continue to participate in coalition calls on wildlands corridors and build alliances for researching information on infrastructure needed to allow wildland corridors to coexist with transportation corridors. Research climate-preparedness and climate-resilience issues affecting Kentucky's wild lands. Attend egular meeting of the Alliance for Appalachia resilience campaign.

  Expenses $15,000 · Grants $15,000

• Culture and Heritage Project: Present the Wild and Scenic Film Festival for its 9th year, with film selection on natural lands, and biodiversity and outdoor recreation. Continue the Kentucky Voices public event for 2024, highlighting authors who focus on natural lands, biodiversity, Kentucky history, justice issues.

  Expenses $8,300 · Grants $8,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

• Kentucky Conservation Committee

  $111,024

  To execute various projects as specifies at the beginning of the year and agreed upon in writing.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

15 May 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.0

Source object

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