Wisconsin · Nonprofit
DODGE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
DODGE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,410 to it, the largest being BEAVER DAM COMMUNITY HOSPITALS FOUNDATION INC ($15,810). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Dodge County Fair Association does
Mission
To organize and conduct the annual county fair in dodge county wisconsin. Manage leasing of facilities for non fair events.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Dodge County Fair Association is a state of wisconsin corporation formed for the purpose of operating the fairgrounds, which includes the organization and operation of the annual county fair. The fairgrounds is presently located three miles east of the city of beaver dam on 40 acres of land owned by the corporation. The 2025 dodge county fair event was held from august 13th through august 17th. The county fair is a festival of music, food, and youth education that entertains approximately 50,000 patrons annually. This is the areas main summer event with three nights of concerts on an outdoor stage that is surrounded by youth educational and animal exhibits, a carnival, food vendors, and commercial exhibit areas. The outdoor main stage concert venue, which is included in the price of admission to the fair, includes nationally touring musical acts of chris lane, jameson rodgers & night ranger. Other entertainment throughout the fairgrounds included small stage musical acts and shows such as nick's kid show, a custom chain saw carver, wild world of animals, and pig races, farm and various small animals, youth and commercial exhibits, a carnival which included rides and games on…
$976,107 spentof which $29,425 as grants$793,657 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $976,107.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $1.3M (+24%).
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: 2017 5% · 2018 5% · 2019 4% · 2020 6% · 2021 3% · 2022 24% · 2023 9% · 2024 1% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of DODGE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 DODGE COUNTY 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
DODGE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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
98% 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 DODGE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION.
“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 DODGE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
DODGE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half 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
Organizations like DODGE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 DODGE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: 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 DODGE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION?
- DODGE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,410 to it, the largest being BEAVER DAM COMMUNITY HOSPITALS FOUNDATION INC ($15,810). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DODGE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $26,410 in grants to DODGE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DODGE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION?
- BEAVER DAM COMMUNITY HOSPITALS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,810 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DODGE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 3 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