Van Buren Youth Fair Assoc

Analysis

Van Buren Youth Fair Assoc is a registered charity in United States, based in Hartford, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1939, 87 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 September 2024, Van Buren Youth Fair Assoc reported income of $887k and spending of $688k, leaving 22% of income unspent that year. Across the 6 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2024, income grew from $538k to $887k (+65%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2021, when income rose by 601%. 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, Van Buren Youth Fair Assoc 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 78th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Emmorton Recreation Council Inc ($887k), Center for Hope ($887k) and Hoboken Community Center Inc ($887k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 4.0% and program service revenue 95% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $18k. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $1,285, net assets of $1.5m. It reported 14 employees.