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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 FLORIDAINC ($152,846). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$3.5M
Revenue FY2025
4
Funders on record
$262k
Grants received
$4.1M
Net assets
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

Against its field

CENTRAL FLORIDA FAIR INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,432 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve8.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above 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 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 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($2.7M)2018 Revenue 145 ($2.2M) Expenses 105 ($2.0M) Net assets 109 ($3.0M)2019 Revenue 179 ($2.8M) Expenses 140 ($2.7M) Net assets 113 ($3.1M)2020 Revenue 120 ($1.9M) Expenses 120 ($2.3M) Net assets 98 ($2.7M)2021 Revenue 165 ($2.5M) Expenses 137 ($2.6M) Net assets 96 ($2.6M)2022 Revenue 336 ($5.2M) Expenses 164 ($3.1M) Net assets 171 ($4.7M)2023 Revenue 186 ($2.9M) Expenses 160 ($3.0M) Net assets 165 ($4.5M)2024 Revenue 195 ($3.0M) Expenses 187 ($3.5M) Net assets 145 ($4.0M)2025 Revenue 224 ($3.5M) Expenses 175 ($3.3M) Net assets 150 ($4.1M)
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Revenue (224)Expenses (175)Net assets (150)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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,882 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$356k
’17
$243k
’18
$106k
’19
−$415k
’20
−$53k
’21
$2.1M
’22
−$164k
’23
−$538k
’24
$130k
’25
8.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $13k → $3k.

Funder
'20
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

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.

58%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

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.

NE
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

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. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

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$33k
19
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Top programs
  • 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

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 Florida

Columbia County Resources Inc88%Okeechobee County Fair Association Inc86%Clay County Fair Association Inc86%St Lucie County Fair Association Inc85%North Florida Fair Association Inc84%Volusia County Fair Association Inc84%South Florida Fair & Palm Beach County Expositions Inc84%Florida Foundation for Future Scientists Inc83%

Nationally

Columbia County Resources Inc88%Okeechobee County Fair Association Inc86%Central States Fair86%Clay County Fair Association Inc86%St Lucie County Fair Association Inc85%The Great Frederick Fair Inc85%Central Washington Fair Association85%North Florida Fair Association Inc84%
04Profile & 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

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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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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 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 FLORIDAINC ($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 FLORIDAINC 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.

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 4funders 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