Westport Fair

Analysis

Westport Fair is a registered charity in United States, based in Westport, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1969, 57 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation and sports, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. 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 August 2024, Westport Fair reported income of $236k and spending of $154k, leaving 35% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2020 to August 2024, income grew from $9,824 to $236k (+2302%), an average of +121% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 4424%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Westport Fair sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile, and in the 60th percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Underwater Society of America Inc ($236k), Fairfield Half Marathon Road Race Inc ($236k) and Mbu Water Polo Foundation ($236k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 9.7% and program service revenue 75% of the total. At year end it held assets of $897k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $897k.