Friends of the Merced County Fair Inc

Analysis

Friends of the Merced County Fair Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Merced, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2008, 18 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 (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Friends of the Merced County Fair Inc reported income of $123k and spending of $93k, leaving 24% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $133k to $123k (-7.6%), an average of -2.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 66% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Friends of the Merced County Fair Inc sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 42nd percentile, and in the 44th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Brainerd Lakes Curling Association ($123k), Mound City Little League Inc ($123k) and Jessamine County Fair and Horse Show ($123k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 79% and program service revenue 21% of the total. At year end it held assets of $283k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $283k.