Butte County Fair Association

Analysis

Butte County Fair Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Gridley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1992, 34 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, Butte County Fair Association reported income of $2.6m and spending of $1.9m, leaving 26% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.9m to $2.6m (+38%), an average of +8.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 234%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Butte County Fair Association sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Brown Ledge Foundation Inc ($2.6m), Riverland Community College Foundation ($2.6m) and San Antonio Force ($2.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 38% and program service revenue 56% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $140k (7.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $235k. At year end it held assets of $2.6m against liabilities of $48k, net assets of $2.6m. It reported 63 employees.