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GUTHRIE COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION

GUTHRIE COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,500 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($26,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$95k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$28k
Net assets
$38k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Guthrie County Fair Foundation does

Mission

To provide support to the guthrie county agricultural society for capital improvement including agricultural education, growth of the arts, and historical preservation for future generations.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The purpose of the Guthrie County Fair Foundation is to provide supplementary financial support for proposed restoration of the historical buildings of the guthrie county agricultural society and to add capital improvements to preserve the integrity of the fine arts and agricultural education of our county and state for future generations.the 2023 fundraiser went toward the construction of a new show ring to be used to support multiple fair activities supporting the youth- such as the livestock shows;4-h foodstand; etc.

    $66,726 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $66,726.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($131k) Expenses 100 ($172k) Net assets 100 ($885)2018 Revenue 77 ($102k) Expenses 56 ($95k) Net assets 826 ($7k)2019 Revenue 155 ($203k) Expenses 106 ($182k) Net assets 3250 ($29k)2020 Revenue 107 ($141k) Expenses 92 ($158k) Net assets 1352 ($12k)2021 Revenue 38 ($50k) Expenses 3 ($5k) Net assets 6407 ($57k)2022 Revenue 158 ($207k) Expenses 128 ($220k) Net assets 4986 ($44k)2023 Revenue 103 ($136k) Expenses 94 ($161k) Net assets 2127 ($19k)2024 Revenue 120 ($158k) Expenses 92 ($157k) Net assets 2182 ($19k)2025 Revenue 72 ($95k) Expenses 45 ($76k) Net assets 4290 ($38k)
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Revenue (72)Expenses (45)Net assets (4290)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $12k to $57k (+374%).

$885
$7k
$29k
$12k
$57k
$44k
$19k
$19k
$38k
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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

100% of GUTHRIE COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,075 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$40k
’17
$6k
’18
$21k
’19
−$17k
’20
$45k
’21
−$13k
’22
−$25k
’23
$486
’24
$19k
’25
2.4
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.

20192022
Listed89
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $20k → $7k.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $20k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Guthrie County Agricultural Society). These are real filings, and they are not money GUTHRIE COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of GUTHRIE COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION’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

GUTHRIE COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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

97% 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 GUTHRIE COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION.

97%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 96% — 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

97% of GUTHRIE COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $750 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Iowa funders.

IA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GUTHRIE COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GUTHRIE COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION: 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 GUTHRIE COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION?
GUTHRIE COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,500 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($26,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GUTHRIE COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $27,500 in grants to GUTHRIE COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GUTHRIE COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION?
COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN is the largest funder on record, with $26,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GUTHRIE COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION 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.

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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 2 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