· Public charity
North Carolina Association of Agricultural Fairs Inc
Promote interest in the agricultural fairs in north carolina, including livestock shows, as well as community fairs
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 79% of NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF AGRICULTURAL FAIRS INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $286,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $310,700 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $24,700 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBUS COUNTY FAIR | $13,000 |
| CLEVELAND COUNTY FAIR | $13,000 |
| ROWAN COUNTY AG & INDUSTRIAL FAIR | $13,000 |
| STOKES COUNTY FAIR | $13,000 |
| SURRY COUNTY FAIR | $13,000 |
| DAVIDSON COUNTY AG FAIR | $13,000 |
| CHOWAN COUNTY REGIONAL FAIR | $13,000 |
| CALDWELL COUNTY AG FAIR | $13,000 |
| HAYWOOD COUNTY FAIR | $13,000 |
| ROBESON REGIONAL FAIR | $13,000 |
| WILSON COUNTY FAIR | $13,000 |
| WILKES COUNTY | $13,000 |
| PITT COUNTY AMERICAN LEGION | $13,000 |
| DREXEL COMMUNITY FAIR | $13,000 |
| HICKORY AMERICAN LEGION FAIR | $13,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 41% of North Carolina Association of Agricultural Fairs Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 44% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
24 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CCCLEVELAND COUNTY FAIR INC7× · 2017–2024 · $197k · revenue +12% · 37% of their budget
- WCWAYNE COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +85%
- RCROBESON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +61% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- NCNorth Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consuone grant, 2020 · $1.0M
- ACAVERY COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL FAIR INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue ×61
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $12k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Agricultural fair
Agricultural fair
Hold an annual agricultural fair for the youth in the county and surrounding areas
County fair
To support agriculture education and development for youths in lee county, iowa.
Community fair providing a venue for agricultural demonstrations & activities by 4-h, ffa , etc.
Annual agricultural exposition
To promote agriculture and host a county fair encourage community involvement and good will
Hold annual county fair to promote agricultural sciences through amusement, product showing, and education to local residents.
Venue for agricultural displays
The operation of the annual Morgan County Illinois Fair
County fair
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbus County Agriculture Fair Inc and the most unlike its peers is Duplin County Agri-Community Center Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CLEVELAND COUNTY FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROBESON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION INC ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS CLUB OF STATESVILLE ↗
- Who funds Hickory American Legion Fairgrounds Inc ↗
- Who funds PITT COUNTY AMERICAN LEGION AGRICULTURAL FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS ↗
- Who funds THE ROWAN COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL ↗
- Who funds Wilson County Fair Inc ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS CLUB OF LEXINGTON ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS COUNTY AGRICULTURE FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION ↗
- Who funds LENOIR COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION CARL CALLOWAY INC POST 290 ↗
- Who funds VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK INC ↗
- Who funds DUPLIN COUNTY AGRI-COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILKES AGRICULTURAL FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL COUNTY AGRICULTURAL FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAPE FEAR FAIR AND EXPO INC ↗
- Who funds SMOKY MOUNTAIN EVENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AVERY COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL FAIR INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization North Carolina Association of Agricultural Fairs Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.