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NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC

EIN 23-7116528 HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, KY

Revenue 2023
$10,347,286
Expenses 2023
$10,371,692

Program services were 87.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B110
Classification
2000
Street
LUCAS ADMINISTRATIVE CENTER STE 822

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 MISSION OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION IS TO SECURE, INVEST, STEWARD, AND DISTRIBUTE PRIVATE RESOURCES IN SUPPORT OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY, TO ADVOCATE FOR THE UNIVERSITY'S BEST INTERESTS, AND TO BUILD LASTING RELATIONSHIPS WITH ALUMNI AND FRIENDS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SUPPORT NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY THROUGH PROVISION OF SCHOLARSHIPS, FINANCIAL AID, AND OTHER SUPPORT PROGRAMS

  • STUDENT FINANCIAL AID

    Expenses $3,215,734 · Grants $3,215,734

  • STUDENT SERVICES

    Expenses $1,177,278 · Grants $309,845

  • ACADEMIC SUPPORT

    Expenses $1,134,769 · Grants $550,500

  • INSTRUCTION, PUBLIC SERVICE, UNIVERSITY FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT ACQUISITION, LIBRARIES, ACADEMIC SUPPORT, RESEARCH

    Expenses $3,520,969 · Grants $2,487,368

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Tom Wiedemann

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Karen Finan

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Marty Butler

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kevin Gessner

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Mary Zalla

    AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Eric Gentry

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Cady Short-Thompson

    NKU PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Rich Boehne

    NKU REGENT DESIGNEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kara Williams

    NKU REGENT DESIGNEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Todd Best

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Garren Colvin

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Brent Cooper

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Michele Hargis

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Jacob Holbrook

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Barb Johnson

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Eric Kearney

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Jack Kenkel

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • John Lucas

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Fred Macke

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Greg Neal

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Heather Quinley

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Mac Riley

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Tim Schigel

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Rosemary Schlachter

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Tracy Schwegmann

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

The first 25 listed. 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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $10,347,286
    Expenses
    $10,371,692
    Contributions
    $6,487,498
    Grants paid
    $6,563,447
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $7,523,777
    Expenses
    $10,415,607
    Contributions
    $5,610,276
    Grants paid
    $6,484,922

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

  • 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
    $43,806,810
    Expenses
    $8,735,397
    Assets (EOY)
    $145,851,936
  • 2021 · 990-T

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

    Revenue
    $8,696,843
    Expenses
    $7,625,395
    Assets (EOY)
    $152,385,239
  • 2020 · 990-T

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

    Revenue
    $14,839,512
    Expenses
    $8,140,353
    Assets (EOY)
    $122,722,811
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,611,206
    Expenses
    $13,531,130
    Assets (EOY)
    $121,442,559
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,282,891
    Expenses
    $10,146,931
    Assets (EOY)
    $127,017,274
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,268,596
    Expenses
    $7,697,709
    Assets (EOY)
    $120,797,282

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

  • NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY

    $3,373,766

    2022 STUDENT FINANCIAL AID

  • NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY

    $3,215,734

    2023 STUDENT FINANCIAL AID

  • NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY

    $766,517

    2022 ACADEMIC SUPPORT

  • NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY

    $760,782

    2022 INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT

  • NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY

    $680,387

    2023 INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT

  • NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY

    $649,945

    2022 INSTRUCTION

  • NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY

    $646,053

    2023 INSTRUCTION

  • NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY

    $565,203

    2023 FACILITIES & EQUIPMENT ACQUISITION

  • NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY

    $550,500

    2023 ACADEMIC SUPPORT

  • NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY

    $413,446

    2022 STUDENT SERVICES

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2023 return

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.