Branch County 4-H Fair

Analysis

Branch County 4-H Fair is a registered charity in United States, based in Coldwater, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2003, 23 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 September 2023, Branch County 4-H Fair reported income of $553k and spending of $531k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $446k to $553k (+24%), an average of +5.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2021, when income rose by 337%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Branch County 4-H Fair sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include New England Collegiate Baseball League Inc ($553k), Dakota Star Gymnastics ($553k) and Iowa Bicycle Coalition ($553k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 17% and program service revenue 55% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $71k (13% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $31k. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $134k, net assets of $1.7m. It reported 10 employees.