Carver County Agricultural Society

Analysis

Carver County Agricultural Society is a registered charity in United States, based in Waconia, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2025. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 2023, Carver County Agricultural Society reported income of $1.1m and spending of $788k, leaving 26% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $770k to $1.1m (+38%), an average of +8.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2021, when income rose by 149%. Over the whole period it spent 69% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Carver County Agricultural Society sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 79th percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Eastern Utah Early Intervention Incorporated ($1.1m), Noahs Ark of West Mifflin ($1.1m) and Childlaw Services Inc ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 15% and program service revenue 80% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $59k. At year end it held assets of $3.2m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $3.2m. It reported 6 employees.