Yakima Valley Fair & Rodeo

Analysis

Yakima Valley Fair & Rodeo is a registered charity in United States, based in Grandview, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1976, 50 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 January 2024, Yakima Valley Fair & Rodeo reported income of $161k and spending of $179k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from January 2020 to January 2024, income grew from $137k to $161k (+17%), an average of +4.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to January 2021, when income rose by 93%. Over the whole period it spent 50% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Yakima Valley Fair & Rodeo sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile, and in the 45th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hendricks Avenue Community Athletic Association Inc ($161k), North Jersey Navigators Inc ($161k) and Supreme Court Basketball Inc ($161k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending January 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 6.6% and program service revenue 89% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $50k, net assets of $1.2m.