Public Charity

COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS

COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS is a Public Charity headquartered in Lexington, KY. Financial data from the 2025 filing: $2.1M revenue, $2.5M expenses, $510K total assets. 8 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $185K, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 561150454 Lexington, KY Leadership Development NTEE: W70 Latest filing: 2025
Total Revenue$2.1M
Total Expenses$2.5M
Total Assets$510K
Grant Records8
Funding Total$185K
Filing Years2021–2025

Mission

To serve, challenge and empower our members and constituents by educating, communicating and training; advocating and influencing; acting as a resource and conduit for information, ideas and support; developing standards and models; and collaborating with other disciplines.

Where $100 goes at Council of State Governments

How Council of State Governments divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 9 years.

$63 Programs the work itself
$37 Management running the organization
$0 Fundraising none reported

No fundraising costs are reported. That often means fundraising runs through a separate affiliated organization that files its own return.

Inside the $63 for programs

$44
Training institutes and meetings
70% of program spending
$19
Reentry in Tribal Communities, Performance of IDA, NHTSA Probation Services for DWI Offenders, BJA Justice Counts, MN Workload Analysis, AECF: Juvenile Vision for Probation, RCT Assess quality Improvement…
30% of program spending
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Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2025. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Officers & Directors

Line Staff Representative Alyza Gonzales
Affiliate Representative Audrey Rigsbee
Member At Large Representative Deanna Hoskins
Region 3 Representative Dena Davis
Region 4 Representative Gene Cotter
Region 2 Representative Hannah Cochran

Officer compensation and complete director data available with membership.

Top Grant Purposes

General Support
$131,370 5 grants
Youth Development
$37,878 2 grants
Research & Policy
$15,879 1 grant

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
2025 $2.1M $2.5M $510K
2024 $2.6M $3.1M $543K
2023 $2.1M $2.4M $766K
2022 $1.5M $1.6M $1.3M
2021 $1.8M $1.3M $1.2M

Between 2021 and 2025, reported annual revenue grew from $1.8M to $2.1M (+18%), with total assets most recently reported at $510K.

Interactive year-over-year charts and full filing details available with membership.

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