Butler Fair and Agricultural Organization

Analysis

Butler Fair and Agricultural Organization is a registered charity in United States, based in Prospect, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1990, 36 years ago. 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 September 2023, Butler Fair and Agricultural Organization reported income of $1.7m and spending of $1.6m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.7m (+47%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2021, when income rose by 488%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Butler Fair and Agricultural Organization sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pine Mountain Settlement School ($1.7m), Southeast Childhood Collective ($1.7m) and Associated Colleges of the Midwest Inc ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.5% and program service revenue 97% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $18k (1.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $107k. At year end it held assets of $3.5m against liabilities of $7,298, net assets of $3.5m. It reported 23 employees.