2024-10-11T11:05:40-07:00 2024-06-30 990EZ 2023-07-01 922394171 KENTUCKIANA HOMESCHOOL INC KENT 8654064089 PO Box 221673 Louisville KY 40252 Stacy Spencer Treasurer 8127363340 2024-10-10 1 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z Hybrid/Modified Cash Basis X X X 106655 X 614 103063 2079 0 0 0 0 0 899 899 0 0 0 0 0 105756 0 642 42671 1366 9200 0 34783 88662 17094 3923 0 21017 X 33168 45384 0 0 855 855 34023 46239 30100 25222 3923 21017 Kentuckiana Homeschool, Inc (KHS) is an inclusive, secular support system for homeschooling families across Kentuckiana. Through academic enrichment options, group field trips, and a welcoming community, KHS creates the foundation families need to build a strong path towards their children's academic futures. KHS pursues this exempt purpose via four areas of focus. 1. Membership Support: Services such as weekly meetups, a robust online forum, and members' only activities. Wildflowers Academy: A once weekly drop-off program where students spend a full day in a classroom of their peers. Explorations Academy: A once weekly drop-off program offering elective academic sessions in areas such as physics, art history, musical theater, and instrument lessons. River City Field Trips: Organizes and facilitates educational field trips at low-cost group rates. In the future, KHS hopes to launch a high school support program, special interest clubs, and homeschool sports teams. Between July 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024 (FY2023-2024), Kentuckiana Homeschool (KHS) carried out its exempt purposes in the following ways: I. Membership Support: KHS served around 100 member families during FY2023-2024. With an average of four family members per member family, that equals at least 400 individuals served. A vital transition that KHS pursued and accomplished during FY2023-2024 was a physical move to a new location. KHS's new location not only provides ideal classroom space for KHS programs but also allows for the organization to maintain more efficient records and streamlines storage and work space for planning and completing projects. This move enhanced the productivity of the entire organization and provided the stability needed for KHS to excel at pursuing its exempt purposes. KHS supplied a printed membership card to each family, allowing them to more easily access teacher discounts and specialized opportunities for educators in the region. KHS also maintained an active social media group where members could ask and receive guidance on various homeschooling issues. In this social media group, administrators shared timely reminders and annual guidelines to help member families legally register their children as homeschooled students in their respective states, shared any breaking news that affected homeschooling families at the local and national level, and posted useful curriculum sources and event listings. Through a bi-monthly newsletter, KHS kept member families updated on services and benefits available to them as members. KHS organized a weekly in-person social gathering at a local park and offered several low-cost field trip options specifically for its membership. A Not-Back-To-School Party and Spring Field Day were both offered to member families. 0 14550 II. Wildflowers Academy: Wildflowers Academy, KHS's once-weekly cottage program, enrolled 60 students ranging in grades from kindergarten to 8th grade, representing 39 member families during FY2023-2024. Wildflowers Academy was held from 10am until 2:30pm most Tuesdays from September 2023 to April 2024. As one of the only secular programs of this type in the Kentuckiana area, Wildflowers Academy served the important purpose of providing a secular enrichment option for homeschooling families seeking this kind of instruction for their students. Wildflowers Academy classrooms provided 28 days of general education enrichments, including arts & crafts, creative writing, geography, earth science, world history, phonics, and elementary math. Students participated in many group projects, building collaborative and cooperative social skills, learning to respect peer boundaries, and developing responsive language functionality. 0 51496 III. River City Field Trips (RCFT): Through RCFT, KHS offered 34 cost-effective field trips to homeschooling families across Kentuckiana. It is important to note that RCFT is open to all homeschooling families, not only member families of KHS. Overall, RCFT served 2188 individuals during FY2023-2024. Field trip destinations included theater productions at the Derby DinnerPlayhouse, a rescue horse farm administered by the Kentucky Humane Society, historical sites such as the Mary Todd Lincoln House and the Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill National Historic Landmark, and state parks such as the Falls of the Ohio State Park (IN) and Fort Boonesborough State Park (KY). Not only did this program fulfill KHS's exempt purposes by providing affordable access to educational opportunities throughout the community, but participation fees generated over $7800.00 in support for other nonprofit organizations and helped build bridges between quality charitable groups. 0 21966 IV. Explorations Academy/Next Steps High School Program: Explorations Academy and Next Steps are future programs for KHS. Explorations Academy launched in FY2024-2025. Next Steps should launch in FY2025-2026. These programs will consist of once-weekly meetings and will further the exempt purposes of KHS by providing new secular academic opportunities for homeschooling families. During FY2023-2024, the KHS Board of Directors, employed administrative and teaching staff, and volunteers from KHS member families developed the business structure and created a content framework for Explorations Academy. By surveying member families and the larger homeschooling community, KHS identified academic sessions that would serve the stated needs of homeschooling families and sought and hired qualified teachers for these sessions. Curriculum development was underway by Spring 2024 and early enrollment began. By the end of FY2023-2024, Explorations Academy had pre-registered 40 students representing 25 member families into the program that would begin in September 2024. 0 650 88662 Carrie Torres President 10 0 0 0 Shannon Voyles Secretary 5 0 0 0 Stacy Spencer Treasurer 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KY Stacy Spencer PO Box 221673 Louisville KY 40252 8127363340 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 3850 2693 6543 11816 103063 114879 0 0 0 15666 105756 121422 121422 0 0 0 15666 105756 121422 X Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Description;Amount^Field Day school parties;562|Tickets purchased on behalf of members;29268|Office expenses;839|Corporate establishment fees;770|Website hosting;302|Merchant account fees;7|Payroll processing fees;428|Furniture;130|Moving expenses;2477^Total;34783^ Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 Equipment in-kind Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26 Description;EOY Amount^Tuition Income received for next fiscal year;21686|Supply fee income received for next fiscal year;1120|Membership income for next fiscal year;2016|Volunteer buyout income for next fiscal year;400^Total;25222^