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APPALACHIAN RESEARCH & DEFENSE FUND OF KY INC

EIN 61-0848948 PRESTONSBURG, KY

Revenue 2025
$6,247,171
Expenses 2025
$6,631,052

Program services were 82.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I80Z
Classification
1000
Street
120 N FRONT AVE

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).

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Carolyn Layne

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Emily Campbell

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Travis Rossman

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alex Gibson

    Board Member - Start 04/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Damon Preston

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Daniel Venters

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Donald Jones

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Edna Bland

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jessica Back

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joseph Lane

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Laura Oliver

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Linda Adams

    Board Member - Start 04/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marilyn Morgan

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Melissa Henke

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Patricia Thomas

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Thomas Hollon

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Angeleigh Dorsey

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $184,570
    From this org
    $138,692
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $45,878
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $138,692
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $27,330
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,548
    Filer's total
    $184,570

  • Evan Smith

    Advocacy Director

    Total calculated
    $159,453
    From this org
    $115,952
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $43,501
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $115,952
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $22,255
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,246
    Filer's total
    $159,453

  • LaDonna Lemaster

    CFO - Exit 01/25

    Total calculated
    $26,491
    From this org
    $15,026
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,465
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Kristie Goff

    Directing Attorney

    Total calculated
    $132,835
    From this org
    $102,539
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $30,296
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Melissa Tidwell

    Directing Attorney

    Total calculated
    $131,047
    From this org
    $100,905
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $30,142
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Stephanie Flanary

    Directing Attorney

    Total calculated
    $156,330
    From this org
    $120,033
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $36,297
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $120,033
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $23,366
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,931
    Filer's total
    $156,330

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 — 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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $6,247,171
    Expenses
    $6,631,052
    Contributions
    $5,922,039
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,302,843
    Expenses
    $5,413,334
    Contributions
    $6,111,813
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,107,879
    Expenses
    $4,665,339
    Contributions
    $4,952,806
    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.

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

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

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 10 September 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.