Minnesota · Nonprofit
Embarrass Region Fair Association
Embarrass Region Fair Association (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $237k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $391k
What Embarrass Region Fair Association does
Mission
To promote the growth and welfare of the Embarrass Region; to bring people together in competition and friendship; and to display the arts, crafts, skills and agriculture of the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Embarrass Region Fair Annual fair that brings together community members from Embarrass and surrounding communities. See Schedule O.
$60,827 spent49% of program spendingTimber Hall Event Center The Association owns and maintains the Timber Hall Event Center and surrounding grounds and horse arena. See Schedule O.
$42,015 spent34% of program spendingPancake Breakfasts Monthly Pancake Breakfast from October through May that provide a low-cost breakfast and social get together for area residents. See Schedule O.
$20,276 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $123,118.
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 $198k to $301k (+52%).
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: 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of Embarrass Region Fair Association’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Carissa Smith
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Embarrass Region 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Embarrass Region Fair Association's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
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
Embarrass Region Fair Association runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Embarrass Region 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 Minnesota
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Embarrass Region 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 Embarrass Region Fair Association?
- Embarrass Region Fair Association (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Embarrass Region Fair Association have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100,000 in grants to Embarrass Region Fair Association.
- Who is the largest funder of Embarrass Region Fair Association?
- C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Embarrass Region Fair Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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