Putnam County Fair Inc

Analysis

Putnam County Fair Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Eleanor, WV. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2025. 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, Putnam County Fair Inc reported income of $935k and spending of $919k, spending 98% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $573k to $935k (+63%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 75% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Putnam County Fair Inc sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile, and in the 76th percentile within WV. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Golf Fore Fun Inc ($934k), Cincinnati Marlins Inc ($935k) and Vermont Mountain Bike Advocate Inc ($934k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 11% and program service revenue 85% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $6,600 (0.7% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $188k against liabilities of $14k, net assets of $174k.