Macon County Fair Association

Analysis

Macon County Fair Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Decatur, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1955, 71 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, Macon County Fair Association reported income of $541k and spending of $483k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $281k to $541k (+93%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 298%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Macon County Fair Association sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 71st percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sagebrush Youth Soccer of Southern Nevada Inc ($541k), Claymakers Arts Community Inc ($541k) and Mounds View Basketball Association Inc ($540k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 5.8% and program service revenue 45% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $68k. At year end it held assets of $700k against liabilities of $69k, net assets of $631k. It reported 9 employees.