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FAIRFIELD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC

FAIRFIELD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being THE GREATER JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$496k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$25k
Net assets
$2.1M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Fairfield Economic Development Association Inc does

Mission

To sustain and improve the quality of life of the citizens of fairfield, iowa through targeted economic development initiatives and programs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide cost sharing of entrepreneurial services for business development.

  2. Honor a teacher from the fairfield community school district for their outstanding performance and achievements.

  3. To encourage young adults to return to fairfield to settle and begin their lives in the area.

  4. Organization supports fairfield community through land sales and donations.

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($178k) Expenses 100 ($142k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 85 ($152k) Expenses 95 ($136k) Net assets 101 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 61 ($109k) Expenses 94 ($134k) Net assets 98 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 66 ($117k) Expenses 92 ($131k) Net assets 97 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 96 ($171k) Expenses 89 ($127k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 137 ($244k) Expenses 100 ($142k) Net assets 108 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 71 ($125k) Expenses 117 ($166k) Net assets 104 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 367 ($653k) Expenses 108 ($154k) Net assets 143 ($1.8M)2025 Revenue 279 ($496k) Expenses 151 ($215k) Net assets 165 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (279)Expenses (151)Net assets (165)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2.3M to $2.9M (+27%).

$2.0M
$1.6M
$2.1M
$2.1M
$2.2M
$1.6M
$1.8M
$2.3M
$2.9M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

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

$36k
’17
$16k
’18
−$26k
’19
−$13k
’20
$44k
’21
$102k
’22
−$40k
’23
$499k
’24
$281k
’25
46
months of
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.

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Listed88899891011
Joined·+3+1+3+2+0+2+2+6
No longer listed·31221115
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'19
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of FAIRFIELD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION 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.

Where its funders are

100% of FAIRFIELD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

IA

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.

04Its place in the field

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In Iowa

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05Profile & governance

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

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAIRFIELD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION 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 FAIRFIELD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC?
FAIRFIELD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being THE GREATER JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FAIRFIELD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to FAIRFIELD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of FAIRFIELD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC?
THE GREATER JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FAIRFIELD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 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