The Cooper County Agricultural and Mechanical Society

Analysis

The Cooper County Agricultural and Mechanical Society is a registered charity in United States, based in Boonville, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, The Cooper County Agricultural and Mechanical Society reported income of $336k and spending of $276k, spending 82% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $183k to $336k (+84%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 111%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Cooper County Agricultural and Mechanical Society sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile, and in the 61st percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include L Arche Daybreak Foundation U S ($336k), Hughes Foundation ($336k) and The Tom Ridge Environmental Center Foundation ($336k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 25% and program service revenue 73% of the total. At year end it held assets of $634k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $634k.