Columbus County Agriculture Fair

Analysis

Columbus County Agriculture Fair is a registered charity in United States, based in Whiteville, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2022, Columbus County Agriculture Fair reported income of $410k and spending of $334k, spending 81% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income grew from $220k to $410k (+86%), an average of +37% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 68%. Over the whole period it spent 77% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Columbus County Agriculture Fair sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Moab Community Childcare ($410k), Nicoles House of Hope Inc ($410k) and Lubick Foundation ($410k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $575k against liabilities of $23k, net assets of $553k.