Shelby County Fair Association

Analysis

Shelby County Fair Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Harlan, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1999, 27 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, Shelby County Fair Association reported income of $385k and spending of $336k, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $118k to $385k (+227%), an average of +34% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2021, when income rose by 167%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Shelby County Fair Association sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile, and in the 68th percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fresno Youth Golf Association Inc ($385k), Hobgood Baseball Inc ($386k) and Harlem Valley Rail Trail Association Inc ($385k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 14% and program service revenue 68% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $121k, net assets of $971k.