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Appalachian Fair Association Inc

Appalachian Fair Association Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being EASTMAN CREDIT UNION ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.2M
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$6k
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
0/1 repeat funders

Against its field

Appalachian Fair Association Inc is better cushioned than half of the 1,432 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve6.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,432 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($930k) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 110 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 99 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 43 ($397k) Expenses 32 ($333k) Net assets 105 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 113 ($1.0M) Expenses 90 ($927k) Net assets 117 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 154 ($1.4M) Expenses 110 ($1.1M) Net assets 146 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 145 ($1.3M) Expenses 120 ($1.2M) Net assets 156 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 136 ($1.3M) Expenses 118 ($1.2M) Net assets 161 ($1.7M)2025 Revenue 133 ($1.2M) Expenses 122 ($1.3M) Net assets 160 ($1.7M)
'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (133)Expenses (122)Net assets (160)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 62% · 2021 3% · 2022 7% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

6% of Appalachian Fair Association Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,882 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$97k
’18
−$7k
’19
$64k
’20
$121k
’21
$305k
’22
$111k
’23
$49k
’24
−$11k
’25
6.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of Appalachian Fair Association Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of Appalachian Fair Association Inc's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

TN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Appalachian Fair Association Inc

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Tennessee

Tennessee State Fair Association78%Dyer County Fair Association77%Sevier County Fair Association75%Williamson County Fair Association Inc75%Appalachian Community Fund74%Tennessee FFA Foundation74%Houston County Fair Inc73%Friends of the Festival Inc72%

Nationally

Mountain Area Fair Association80%Frederick County Fair Association Inc79%Red River Valley Fair Association78%Tennessee State Fair Association78%Walton County Fair Inc78%Attica Fair Association77%Collier County Agricultural Fair & Exposition Inc77%Crawford County Fair Association77%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

34
board members
94%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

91%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Appalachian Fair Association Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Appalachian Fair Association Inc?
Appalachian Fair Association Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being EASTMAN CREDIT UNION ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Appalachian Fair Association Inc have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,000 in grants to Appalachian Fair Association Inc.
Who is the largest funder of Appalachian Fair Association Inc?
EASTMAN CREDIT UNION is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Appalachian Fair Association Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 1funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing