Friends of the Kern County Fair

Analysis

Friends of the Kern County Fair is a registered charity in United States, based in Bakersfield, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2012, 14 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 December 2023, Friends of the Kern County Fair reported income of $575k and spending of $521k, spending 91% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $338k to $575k (+70%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 87%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Friends of the Kern County 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 74th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Union Soccer Inc ($575k), Beverly Hills Basketball League ($576k) and Suffolk County High School Hockey League Inc ($575k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 3.4% and program service revenue 97% of the total. At year end it held assets of $329k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $329k.