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EKY HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC

EIN 83-4087615 WHITESBURG, KY

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Revenue 2024
$39,655
Expenses 2024
$282,992

Program services were 20.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S20
Classification
1000
Street
51 HIGHWAY 2034

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

EMBRACING OUR PAST, EMPOWERING OUR PEOPLE, AND UNLOCKING OUR FUTURE BY DEVELOPING A TOURISM INDUSTRY CLUSTER, AND REVITALIZING OUR COMMUNITIES IN THE COALFIELDS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY

  • HOSTED 4 PUBLIC MEETINGS IN VARIOUS LOCATIONS IN LETCHER COUNTY TO SHARE OUR PROJECTS, BOOST COMMUNITY MORALE, AND SOLICIT FEEDBACK ON OUR WORK FURTHERING TOURISM AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

    Expenses $19,549 · Grants $475

  • ESTABLISHED FACADE IMPROVEMENT GRANT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY OF WHITESBURG TO PROVIDE PROPERTY AND/OR BUSINESS OWNERS UP TO $1,000 TO SPRUCE UP THE OUTSIDE OF THEIR BUILDING OR STOREFRONT.

    Expenses $20,073 · Grants $1,000

  • PARTNERED WITH ONE EAST KENTUCKY, REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OFFICE, TO ESTABLISH TWO "DOWNTOWN STRATEGIES" PLANS IN WHITESBURG AND IN JENKINS. THESE ARE DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION PLANS.

    Expenses $19,073

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Charles W Matthews Jr

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Eli Matthews

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2
  • Isaac Matthews

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2
  • Jeffery Justice

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $70,300
    From this org
    $70,300
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Ina M Matthews

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Donna J Childers

    SECRETARY & TRASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $39,655
    Expenses
    $282,992
    Contributions
    $39,655
    Grants paid
    $1,475
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $86,871
    Expenses
    $398,289
    Contributions
    $86,871
    Grants paid
    $234,567
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $321,093
    Expenses
    $75,441
    Contributions
    $321,093
    Grants paid
    $7,765

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $402,000
    Expenses
    $117,491
    Assets (EOY)
    $300,244

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2020

Tax period
1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
Principal officer
Ina Michelle Matthews
Mailing address
51 Highway 2034Whitesburg KY 41858

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.