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BAY COUNTY FAIR & YOUTH EXPOSITION

BAY COUNTY FAIR & YOUTH EXPOSITION (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,964 to it, the largest being BAY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($30,800). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$219k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$71k
Net assets
$272k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Bay County Fair & Youth Exposition does

Mission

The bay county fairboard aims to build a fair that showcases the county's agriculture.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The bay county fairboard aims to build a fair that showcases the county's agriculture as well as being of interest to all county residents. The bay county fair is a great place for the whole family.

    $32,865 spent$177,371 earned by the program
    16% of program spending
  2. The bay county fairboard aims to build a fair that showcases the county's agriculture as well as being of interest to all county residents. The bay county fair is a great place for the whole family.

    $173,804 spent
    84% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $206,669.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($157k) Expenses 100 ($139k) Net assets 100 ($76k)2018 Revenue 77 ($121k) Expenses 96 ($134k) Net assets 82 ($62k)2019 Revenue 100 ($157k) Expenses 114 ($159k) Net assets 79 ($60k)2020 Revenue 32 ($50k) Expenses 30 ($42k) Net assets 89 ($67k)2021 Revenue 116 ($181k) Expenses 121 ($169k) Net assets 105 ($79k)2022 Revenue 132 ($207k) Expenses 148 ($206k) Net assets 105 ($80k)2023 Revenue 207 ($324k) Expenses 173 ($241k) Net assets 214 ($162k)2024 Revenue 217 ($339k) Expenses 171 ($238k) Net assets 349 ($264k)2025 Revenue 140 ($219k) Expenses 152 ($211k) Net assets 359 ($272k)
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Revenue (140)Expenses (152)Net assets (359)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $183k to $282k (+55%).

$76k
$62k
$60k
$67k
$104k
$104k
$183k
$282k
$299k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 24% · 2020 24% · 2021 8% · 2022 9% · 2023 32% · 2024 22% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

17% of BAY COUNTY FAIR & YOUTH EXPOSITION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
’17
−$13k
’18
−$3k
’19
$8k
’20
$12k
’21
$474
’22
$82k
’23
$102k
’24
$8k
’25
0.4
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed101013131312121215
Joined·+0+7+0+0+4+0+1+7
No longer listed·04005014
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $31 → $6k.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of BAY COUNTY FAIR & YOUTH EXPOSITION’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.

How concentrated its funding is

BAY COUNTY FAIR & YOUTH EXPOSITION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

58% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BAY COUNTY FAIR & YOUTH EXPOSITION.

43%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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

58% of BAY COUNTY FAIR & YOUTH EXPOSITION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $30k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.

MI

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BAY COUNTY FAIR & YOUTH EXPOSITION's revenue grew 40% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like BAY COUNTY FAIR & YOUTH EXPOSITION

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds BAY COUNTY FAIR & YOUTH EXPOSITION?
BAY COUNTY FAIR & YOUTH EXPOSITION (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,964 to it, the largest being BAY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($30,800). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BAY COUNTY FAIR & YOUTH EXPOSITION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $70,964 in grants to BAY COUNTY FAIR & YOUTH EXPOSITION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BAY COUNTY FAIR & YOUTH EXPOSITION?
BAY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BAY COUNTY FAIR & YOUTH EXPOSITION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing