Texas · Nonprofit
GRIMES COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
GRIMES COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $946,960 to it, the largest being KEOWN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($900,664). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GRIMES COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,723 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,723 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- Leroy and Merle Weir Trust A0363400shared funders
- North Carolina Association of Agricultural Fairs Incportfolio match
- The Eurice M Bass Foundationshared funders
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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.
0% of GRIMES COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $85k → $110k.
From the IRS filings of GRIMES 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
GRIMES COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 87% · 2022 92% · 2023 88% — diversifying over time.
“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 GRIMES COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
- Leroy and Merle Weir Trust A0363400shared fundersTX · backs 3 organizations that share your funders
- North Carolina Association of Agricultural Fairs Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Eurice M Bass Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- New Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kleimann Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kolkhorst Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gvec Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Create Healthy Managementportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McDaniel Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Central Iowa Community Foundaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Louisiana Farm Bureau Federationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northwest Minnesota Arts Councilportfolio 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 GRIMES 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 GRIMES 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 GRIMES COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION?
- GRIMES COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $946,960 to it, the largest being KEOWN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($900,664). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRIMES COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $946,960 in grants to GRIMES COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRIMES COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION?
- KEOWN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $900,664 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRIMES COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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