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North Carolina Association of Agricultural Fairs Inc at a glance

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North Carolina Association of Agricultural Fairs Inc

Promote interest in the agricultural fairs in north carolina, including livestock shows, as well as community fairs

$311k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$1.9MHealth$888kRecreation & Sports$247kHuman Services$27kArts & Culture$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kCommunity Improvement$12kPhilanthropy$12k
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $286,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $310,700 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $24,700 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$13,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$539k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHOWAN COUNTY REGIONAL FAIR$13,000
CLEVELAND COUNTY FAIR$13,000
ROWAN COUNTY AG & INDUSTRIAL FAIR$13,000
SURRY COUNTY FAIR$13,000
ROBESON REGIONAL FAIR$13,000
WAYNE REGIONAL AG FAIR$13,000
ONSLOW COUNTY AG FAIR$13,000
CALDWELL COUNTY AG FAIR$13,000
PITT COUNTY AMERICAN LEGION$13,000
HAMLET LIONS CLUB$13,000
LEE REGIONAL FAIR$13,000
COLUMBUS COUNTY FAIR$13,000
DUPLIN COUNTY AG FAIR$13,000
WILKES COUNTY$13,000
IREDELL COUNTY FAIR$13,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NCDA-NORTH CAROLINA STATE FAIR: $850k → 8%ONSLOW COUNTY AG FAIR: $17k → 9%STOKES COUNTY FAIR: $17k → 11%HAYWOOD COUNTY FAIR: $15k → 12%CAPE FEAR FAIR & EXPO: $15k → 12%NCDA-NC MOUNTAIN STATE FAIR: $150k → 12%DAVIDSON COUNTY AG FAIR: $17k → 13%DREXEL COMMUNITY FAIR: $17k → 13%CALDWELL COUNTY AG FAIR: $17k → 16%CHOWAN COUNTY REGIONAL FAIR: $17k → 16%CLEVELAND COUNTY FAIR: $48k → 17%SURRY COUNTY FAIR: $17k → 17%WAYNE REGIONAL AG FAIR: $24k → 18%WILKES COUNTY: $17k → 19%DUPLIN COUNTY AG FAIR: $17k → 20%COLUMBUS COUNTY FAIR: $17k → 21%LENOIR COUNTY AG FAIR: $17k → 21%HAMLET LIONS CLUB: $17k → 23%ROBESON REGIONAL FAIR: $17k → 26%ONSLOW COUNTY AG FAIR: $13k → 9%STOKES COUNTY FAIR: $13k → 11%HAYWOOD COUNTY FAIR: $13k → 12%CAPE FEAR FAIR & EXPO: $15k → 12%DAVIDSON COUNTY AG FAIR: $15k → 13%DREXEL COMMUNITY FAIR: $13k → 13%CALDWELL COUNTY AG FAIR: $13k → 16%CHOWAN COUNTY REGIONAL FAIR: $13k → 16%CLEVELAND COUNTY FAIR: $46k → 17%SURRY COUNTY FAIR: $13k → 17%WAYNE REGIONAL AG FAIR: $22k → 18%WILKES COUNTY: $13k → 19%DUPLIN COUNTY AG FAIR: $13k → 20%COLUMBUS COUNTY FAIR: $13k → 21%LENOIR COUNTY AG FAIR: $13k → 21%HAMLET LIONS CLUB: $13k → 23%ROBESON REGIONAL FAIR: $17k → 26%CAPE FEAR FAIR & EXPO: $14k → 12%DAVIDSON COUNTY AG FAIR: $13k → 13%CLEVELAND COUNTY FAIR: $46k → 17%WAYNE REGIONAL AG FAIR: $21k → 18%ROBESON REGIONAL FAIR: $17k → 26%CAPE FEAR FAIR & EXPO: $13k → 12%CLEVELAND COUNTY FAIR: $17k → 17%WAYNE REGIONAL AG FAIR: $17k → 18%ROBESON REGIONAL FAIR: $16k → 26%CLEVELAND COUNTY FAIR: $17k → 17%WAYNE REGIONAL AG FAIR: $17k → 18%ROBESON REGIONAL FAIR: $14k → 26%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 41% of North Carolina Association of Agricultural Fairs Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 44%.

North Carolina Association of Agricultural Fairs Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 56% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 24 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
4

Total granted

$2.0M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+6017%

Still filing today

83%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CC
    CLEVELAND COUNTY FAIR INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $197k · revenue +12% · 37% of their budget
  • WC
    WAYNE COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +85%
  • RC
    ROBESON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +61% · 32% of their budget

Funded once

  • NC
    North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consu
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
  • AC
    AVERY COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL FAIR INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue ×61
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Norman County Agriculture Society

Agricultural fair

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2
Moultrie-Douglas County Fair Association

Agricultural fair

Recreation & Sports
3
Clarke County 4-H Fair Association

Hold an annual agricultural fair for the youth in the county and surrounding areas

Recreation & Sports
4
Macon County Fair Association

County fair

—
5
Lee County Fair

To support agriculture education and development for youths in lee county, iowa.

—
6
Franklin County Youth Fair

Community fair providing a venue for agricultural demonstrations & activities by 4-h, ffa , etc.

Youth Development
7
Darke County Agricultural Society

Annual agricultural exposition

Animals
8
South Central Area Fair Inc

To promote agriculture and host a county fair encourage community involvement and good will

Recreation & Sports
9
Dixon County Agricultural Society

Hold annual county fair to promote agricultural sciences through amusement, product showing, and education to local residents.

Youth Development
10
Sibley County Agricultural Associat

Venue for agricultural displays

Recreation & Sports
11
Morgan County Agricultural Fair Association

The operation of the annual Morgan County Illinois Fair

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12
Columbiana County Agricultural Soci

County fair

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbus County Agriculture Fair Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consu: $1,000,000 · OtherNorth Carolina Department of Agriculture and ConsuCLEVELAND COUNTY FAIR INC: $197,499 · OtherCLEVELAND COUNTY FAIR INCWAYNE COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION INC: $124,883 · OtherKIWANIS CLUB OF STATESVILLE: $101,868 · OtherHickory American Legion Fairgrounds Inc: $99,433 · OtherINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS: $89,391 · OtherWilson County Fair Inc: $85,732 · OtherKIWANIS CLUB OF LEXINGTON: $85,273 · Other+11 more: $645,825 · Other+11 moreROBESON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION INC: $104,685 · Food & NutritionROBESON COUN…THE ROWAN COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL: $86,537 · Food & NutritionTHE ROWAN CO…COLUMBUS COUNTY AGRICULTURE FAIR INC: $82,139 · Food & NutritionCOLUMBUS COU…CALDWELL COUNTY AGRICULTURAL FAIR INC: $71,012 · Food & NutritionCALDWELL COU…PITT COUNTY AMERICAN LEGION AGRICULTURAL FAIR INC: $90,343 · Recreation & SportsSMOKY MOUNTAIN EVENT CENTER INC: $52,372 · Recreation & SportsAVERY COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL FAIR INC: $11,571 · Recreation & SportsDUPLIN COUNTY AGRI-COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION: $73,016 · Community ImprovementWILKES AGRICULTURAL FAIR INC: $72,875 · Philanthropy
Other$2,429,904Food & Nutrition$344,373Recreation & Sports$154,286Community Improvement$73,016Philanthropy$72,875

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLEVELAND COUNTY FAIR INC: $197,499 over 7y, 37% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION INC: $124,883 over 7y, 13% of budgetROBESON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION INC: $104,685 over 7y, 32% of budgetKIWANIS CLUB OF STATESVILLE: $101,868 over 7y, 32% of budgetHickory American Legion Fairgrounds Inc: $99,433 over 7y, 24% of budgetPITT COUNTY AMERICAN LEGION AGRICULTURAL FAIR INC: $90,343 over 7y, 38% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS: $89,391 over 7y, 21% of budgetTHE ROWAN COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL: $86,537 over 7y, 15% of budgetWilson County Fair Inc: $85,732 over 7y, 27% of budgetKIWANIS CLUB OF LEXINGTON: $85,273 over 7y, 62% of budgetCOLUMBUS COUNTY AGRICULTURE FAIR INC: $82,139 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION: $77,484 over 7y, 8.9% of budgetLENOIR COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION INC: $77,024 over 7y, 24% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION CARL CALLOWAY INC POST 290: $75,654 over 7y, 11% of budgetVETERANS MEMORIAL PARK INC: $75,462 over 7y, 25% of budgetDUPLIN COUNTY AGRI-COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION: $73,016 over 7y, 31% of budgetWILKES AGRICULTURAL FAIR INC: $72,875 over 7y, 47% of budgetCALDWELL COUNTY AGRICULTURAL FAIR INC: $71,012 over 7y, 39% of budgetTHE CAPE FEAR FAIR AND EXPO INC: $68,206 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetSMOKY MOUNTAIN EVENT CENTER INC: $52,372 over 5y, 4.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization North Carolina Association of Agricultural Fairs Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North Carolina Association of Agricultural Fairs Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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