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BINGHAM FUND FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AT TRANSYLVANIA UNIV

EIN 61-1129707 LEXINGTON, KY

Largest nonprofits in Kentucky

Revenue 2023
$2,201,322
Expenses 2023
$2,850,040

Program services were 93.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B110
Classification
1000
Street
300 NORTH BROADWAY

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 · 2023

Mission

The Trust was established in 1987 in celebration of the continual quest of the human race for knowledge and the service of teachers as the guides along the complex paths of education. The Settlors who established the Trust did so with the fervent hope and desire that it will serve as a source of innovation and motivation in the furtherance of educational excellence through teaching at Transylvania University. The fund was designed to promote teaching excellence and dedication among the faculty of Transylvania through the granting of Bingham Awards to individual teachers of exceptional ability who demonstrate excellent teaching qualities.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Promotes teaching quality and development of the faculty of Transylvania University

  • Faculty salary supplements and related fringe benefits

    Expenses $1,891,694

  • Faculty development grants, technology initiative expenditures and various selection committee expenses

    Expenses $785,072 · Grants $270,937

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Mr Brien Lewis

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $484,850
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $437,461
    Other
    $47,389
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $407,461 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $30,000 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $22,500 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $24,889 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $484,850 related
  • Dr John Williams

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $36,000
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $36,000
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Dr Sarah Stanbury

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $20,000
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $20,000
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dr Jonathan Berkey

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $20,000
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $20,000
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mr George Branch

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mr Norwood Cowgill

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ms Carol L Jones

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dr Dan Jones

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dr John K Roth

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mr William T Young Jr

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mr Christopher H Young

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,201,322
    Expenses
    $2,850,040
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,911,539
    Expenses
    $2,307,805
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,048,906
    Expenses
    $2,227,205
    Assets (EOY)
    $103,294,349
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,944,699
    Expenses
    $1,990,851
    Assets (EOY)
    $111,075,860
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,927,476
    Expenses
    $1,325,166
    Assets (EOY)
    $88,470,681
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,090,369
    Expenses
    $1,656,009
    Assets (EOY)
    $86,130,394
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,263,986
    Expenses
    $1,594,656
    Assets (EOY)
    $75,063,907

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2023 return

Declared as related by

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 SOUNK.

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.