Illinois · Nonprofit
FORD COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
FORD COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,382 to it, the largest being Gibson Community Hospital Association ($57,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Gibson Community Hospital Auxiliarylocal
- New Charitable Foundationportfolio match
- North Carolina Association of Agricultural Fairs Incportfolio match
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.
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 26% · 2018 12% · 2019 27% · 2020 15% · 2021 14% · 2022 8% · 2023 19% · 2024 8% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $0 → $33k.
From the IRS filings of FORD 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
FORD COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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
91% 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 FORD 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
91% of FORD COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Illinois 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.
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.
- Gibson Community Hospital AuxiliarylocalIL · funds 2 organizations near you
- New Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Carolina Association of Agricultural Fairs Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northwest Minnesota Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Central Iowa Community Foundaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arlin Falck Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William M & Donna J Hoaglin Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arts Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Middle Michigan Development Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Keokuk Area Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Upper Mississippi Gaming Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Franklin County Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like FORD COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FORD 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.
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 FORD COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION?
- FORD COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,382 to it, the largest being Gibson Community Hospital Association ($57,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FORD COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $63,382 in grants to FORD COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORD COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION?
- Gibson Community Hospital Association is the largest funder on record, with $57,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORD COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2funders 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