Starke County Fair Board Incorporated

Analysis

Starke County Fair Board Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Knox, IN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2012, 14 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 December 2023, Starke County Fair Board Incorporated reported income of $398k and spending of $311k, leaving 22% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $229k to $398k (+74%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 395%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Starke County Fair Board Incorporated sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within IN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of the Ifl Inc ($398k), Strawberry Seals Inc ($398k) and Munster Community Swim Asociation Inc ($398k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 31% and program service revenue 65% of the total. At year end it held assets of $379k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $379k.