Washington County Fair Association

Analysis

Washington County Fair Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Brenham, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1941, 85 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, Washington County Fair Association reported income of $4.4m and spending of $4.2m, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.9m to $4.4m (+53%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Washington County Fair Association sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile, and in the 94th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Martin Luther King Community Center Incorporated ($4.4m), USA Clay Target League ($4.4m) and Salinas Regional Sports Authority ($4.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 5.8% and program service revenue 91% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $138k. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $104k, net assets of $1.5m. It reported 2 employees.