Sangamon County Fair and Agriculture Association

Analysis

Sangamon County Fair and Agriculture Association is a registered charity in United States, based in New Berlin, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1972, 54 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 November 2023, Sangamon County Fair and Agriculture Association reported income of $598k and spending of $584k, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from November 2019 to November 2023, income grew from $588k to $598k (+1.6%), an average of +0.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to November 2021, when income rose by 302%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Sangamon County Fair and Agriculture Association 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 72nd percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of the Robert Crown Center ($598k), CC United Water Polo Inc ($598k) and Gym Parents Inc ($597k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending November 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 19% and program service revenue 40% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $51k. At year end it held assets of $223k against liabilities of $49k, net assets of $174k. It reported 10 employees.