Florida · Nonprofit
CENTRAL FLORIDA FAIR INC
CENTRAL FLORIDA FAIR INC (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $262,046 to it, the largest being UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ($152,846). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $262k
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Central Florida Fair Inc does
Mission
The central florida fair is an organization that provides numerous community activities. The organization's mission and most significant accomplishments are education in the areas of agriculture, science and industry, the arts and entertainment. Additionally, the central florida fair is a centralized common area for people to the community to gather. It strives to portray and provide resources for several counties including orange, seminole, brevard, lake, osceola and volusia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To operate exclusively for educational purposes by conducting and operating public fairs or expositions for the benefit and development of agriculture, horticulture, livestock, and other resources, for the central section of the state of florida.
$2,948,125 spent$3,230,778 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,948,125.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $4.4M to $8.6M (+93%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of CENTRAL FLORIDA FAIR INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Charles Roper
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $13k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of CENTRAL FLORIDA FAIR 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.
How concentrated its funding is
CENTRAL FLORIDA FAIR INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 CENTRAL FLORIDA FAIR INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
64% of CENTRAL FLORIDA FAIR INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
CENTRAL FLORIDA FAIR INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CENTRAL FLORIDA FAIR INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $33k on record.
- STATE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $33k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $225
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CENTRAL FLORIDA FAIR INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTRAL FLORIDA FAIR 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTRAL FLORIDA FAIR INC?
- CENTRAL FLORIDA FAIR INC (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $262,046 to it, the largest being UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ($152,846). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRAL FLORIDA FAIR INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $262,046 in grants to CENTRAL FLORIDA FAIR INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL FLORIDA FAIR INC?
- UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC is the largest funder on record, with $152,846 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL FLORIDA FAIR INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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