Maryland · Nonprofit
MARYLAND STATE FAIR & AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC
MARYLAND STATE FAIR & AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,620 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($11,620). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $21M
What Maryland State Fair & Agricultural Society Inc does
Mission
The maryland state fair & agricultural society, inc., a private non-profit 501(c)(3)organization, supports agriculture, education, preserves and promotes maryland's agricultural roots, and provides competitions and events showcasing maryland's premier industry. Annually, the maryland state fair provides new family entertainment while perserving traditional favorites, honors the talents of maryland youth and adults through competition and showcases, and provides fun, educational opportunities to help promote maryland's leading industry, agriculture. Since many people are generations away from the farm, the maryland state fair expands and changes its exhibits to keep up with technological and industry advancements. Among the many current agricultural exhibits are the maryland state fair birthing center, u-learn farm, the university of maryland dairy and wye beef herds exhibits, horseland, nature play space, and more. If history is evidence, the maryland state fair will continue to grow,
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The maryland state fair is an annual attraction held between late august and early september and is host to several hundred thousand attendees. The attractions include amusement rides, concerts, animals, produce, food products, arts & crafts, and among others md farm educational exhibits hosted by the 4h, ffa, u learn center, animal world, and stem and technology. The state fair serves as a state wide networking and career develoment for individuals involved in such programs.
$6,214,014 spentof which $20,000 as grants77% of program spendingThoroughbred racing is held for 7-10 days during the maryland state fair. In addition to supporting maryland horse breeding, the racing days provide a public entertainment activity each year.
$1,824,771 spent23% of program spendingEach year the maryland state fair makes it's facilities available to other livestock and agricultural groups at no cost or for reduced rental rates. Prior events were the atlantic national angus event, baltimore county farmers market,baltimore county 4-h fair, maryland horse breeders yearling show, the pdca dairy cattle show & youth swine show are held on the fairgrounds.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,038,785.
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.
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 $13M to $18M (+36%).
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 10% · 2018 9% · 2019 9% · 2020 26% · 2021 9% · 2022 12% · 2023 6% · 2024 5% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of MARYLAND STATE FAIR & AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (10% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Donna G Myers
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $3k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 MARYLAND STATE FAIR & AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 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.
How concentrated its funding is
MARYLAND STATE FAIR & AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 MARYLAND STATE FAIR & AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
MARYLAND STATE FAIR & AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k 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.
Against its field
MARYLAND STATE FAIR & AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 164 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 164 recreation & sports nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like MARYLAND STATE FAIR & AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Msf Inc · corp_trust
- Msf Sports Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARYLAND STATE FAIR & AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC?
- MARYLAND STATE FAIR & AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,620 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($11,620). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARYLAND STATE FAIR & AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $24,620 in grants to MARYLAND STATE FAIR & AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC.
- Who is the largest funder of MARYLAND STATE FAIR & AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,620 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARYLAND STATE FAIR & AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 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