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Brown County Free Fair Association

Brown County Free Fair Association (Kansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,450 to it, the largest being GREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($7,400). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$112k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$72k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Brown County Free Fair Association does

Mission

Provide annual Brown County Fair

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. The fair allows children, ages 7-18, enrolled in 4-H to exhibit the projects that they worked on during the year for recognition by ribbons and premium money for the ribbons.

    $0 spent
  2. The fair gathers members of the community together to see the 4-H members projects and accomplishments, as well as a place to gather for a carnival and free entertaiment.

    $0 spent

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

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 -18 ($-5148) Net assets 100 ($32k)2018 Revenue 100 ($28k) Expenses 100 ($22k) Net assets 120 ($38k)2019 Revenue 389 ($111k) Expenses 458 ($101k) Net assets 148 ($47k)2020 Revenue 219 ($62k) Expenses 230 ($51k) Net assets 183 ($59k)2021 Revenue 284 ($81k) Expenses 333 ($74k) Net assets 205 ($65k)2022 Revenue 347 ($98k) Expenses 431 ($96k) Net assets 214 ($68k)2023 Revenue 426 ($121k) Expenses 562 ($125k) Net assets 203 ($65k)2024 Revenue 463 ($131k) Expenses 551 ($122k) Net assets 231 ($74k)2025 Revenue 394 ($112k) Expenses 515 ($114k) Net assets 224 ($72k)
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Revenue (394)Expenses (515)Net assets (224)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 2019 to 2020, from $47k to $59k (+24%).

$32k
$38k
$47k
$59k
$65k
$68k
$65k
$74k
$72k
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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

98% of Brown County Free Fair Association’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,418 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’17
$6k
’18
$9k
’19
$11k
’20
$7k
’21
$3k
’22
−$4k
’23
$9k
’24
−$2k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Brown County Free Fair Association’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

Brown County Free Fair Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 Brown County Free Fair Association.

59%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

100% of Brown County Free Fair Association'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k 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

Brown County Free Fair Association has grown faster than half of the 3,734 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,734 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

90%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Brown County Free Fair Association?
Brown County Free Fair Association (Kansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,450 to it, the largest being GREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($7,400). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Brown County Free Fair Association have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $12,450 in grants to Brown County Free Fair Association.
Who is the largest funder of Brown County Free Fair Association?
GREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Brown County Free Fair Association find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing