Lincoln County Fair Inc

Analysis

Lincoln County Fair Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Troy, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1984, 42 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, Lincoln County Fair Inc reported income of $1.9m and spending of $1.7m, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $1.9m (+69%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 942%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Lincoln County Fair Inc sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mission Trails Regional Park Foundation Inc ($1.9m), Newark Soccer Club Inc ($2.0m) and Idyllwild Pines Camp and Conference Center ($1.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.5% and program service revenue 96% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.7m.