Allen County Fairgrounds Inc

Analysis

Allen County Fairgrounds Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Fort Wayne, IN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1988, 38 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, Allen County Fairgrounds Inc reported income of $629k and spending of $512k, spending 81% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $481k to $629k (+31%), an average of +7.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 261%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Allen County Fairgrounds Inc sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 74th percentile within IN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Youth Sports Program ($629k), Homestead Rodeo Association Inc ($629k) and Shelby County Fair Association Inc ($629k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 3.0% and program service revenue 96% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $11k, net assets of $1.5m. It reported 5 employees.