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JEFFERSON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION

JEFFERSON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,656 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$568k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$13k
Net assets
$270k
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Jefferson County Fair Association does

Mission

Provide area for county fair

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Produced the jefferson county fair, along with numerous events throughout the year.

    $492,814 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $492,814.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($11k) Expenses 100 ($37k) Net assets 100 ($163k)2021 Revenue 466 ($49k) Expenses 457 ($171k) Net assets 104 ($170k)2022 Revenue 2498 ($265k) Expenses 764 ($287k) Net assets 91 ($148k)2023 Revenue 3530 ($374k) Expenses 873 ($327k) Net assets 119 ($194k)2024 Revenue 5363 ($568k) Expenses 1314 ($493k) Net assets 166 ($270k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (5363)Expenses (1314)Net assets (166)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 2023 to 2024, from $197k to $275k (+40%).

$163k
$170k
$148k
$197k
$275k
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 27% · 2023 13% · 2024 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

39% of JEFFERSON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$27k
’20
−$122k
’21
−$22k
’22
$47k
’23
$75k
’24
3.4
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.

Board chair

Ben Thomas

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2020202220232024
Listed1611119
Joined··+0+5
No longer listed··07
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $10.

3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of JEFFERSON 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

JEFFERSON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% 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

100% 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 JEFFERSON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION.

59%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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 JEFFERSON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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

JEFFERSON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve3.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)171% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION?
JEFFERSON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,656 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does JEFFERSON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $12,656 in grants to JEFFERSON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION.
Who is the largest funder of JEFFERSON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JEFFERSON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 3 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