Arlington County Fair Inc

Analysis

Arlington County Fair Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Arlington, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1989, 37 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 September 2023, Arlington County Fair Inc reported income of $541k and spending of $357k, leaving 34% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $304k to $541k (+78%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2021, when income rose by 6009%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Arlington County Fair Inc sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hyas Inspires ($541k), Monmouth United Soccer Club Inc ($542k) and Mt Diablo Interpretive Assoc ($541k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 18% and program service revenue 82% of the total. At year end it held assets of $287k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $287k.