Menard County Fair

Analysis

Menard County Fair is a registered charity in United States, based in Petersburg, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1952, 74 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, Menard County Fair reported income of $813k and spending of $545k, leaving 33% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $291k to $813k (+179%), an average of +29% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 81%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Menard County Fair sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile, and in the 76th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Downtown Giants Youth Football Inc ($813k), Washington County Agricultural Society ($814k) and Cleveland County Alws Baseball Inc ($812k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 47% and program service revenue 50% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $58k. At year end it held assets of $878k against liabilities of $5,081, net assets of $873k. It reported 19 employees.