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MONTCALM COUNTY 4H FAIR ASSOCIATION

MONTCALM COUNTY 4H FAIR ASSOCIATION (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,286,673 to it, the largest being Greenville Area Community Fnd ($1,281,173). 1 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 FY2025
$186k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$1.1M
1/2 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Montcalm County 4h Fair Association does

Mission

Provide a fair for the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Promotion and recognition of county fair and its participants through education about agriculture, horticulture, and related arts and sciences.

    $238,313 spent$82,703 earned by the program
    95% of program spending
  2. Promotion and recognition of county fair and its participants through education about agriculture, horticulture, and related arts and sciences.

    $11,843 spent
    5% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $250,156.

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 ($248k) Expenses 100 ($226k) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 128 ($318k) Expenses 110 ($248k) Net assets 105 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 80 ($199k) Expenses 108 ($244k) Net assets 102 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 63 ($157k) Expenses 75 ($168k) Net assets 101 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 64 ($160k) Expenses 90 ($203k) Net assets 98 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 78 ($194k) Expenses 134 ($302k) Net assets 91 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 74 ($185k) Expenses 106 ($240k) Net assets 86 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 118 ($293k) Expenses 124 ($279k) Net assets 87 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 75 ($186k) Expenses 125 ($282k) Net assets 81 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (75)Expenses (125)Net assets (81)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 2021 to 2022, from $1.5M to $1.4M (−8%).

$1.6M
$1.7M
$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.5M
$1.4M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.2M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2024 14% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

27% of MONTCALM COUNTY 4H 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. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$22k
’17
$70k
’18
−$45k
’19
−$11k
’20
−$43k
’21
−$109k
’22
−$55k
’23
$14k
’24
−$95k
’25
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.

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Listed151515151515151415
Joined·+4+0+0+0+9+0+3+5
No longer listed·40009044
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $13k → $6k.

Funder
'20
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
2

2 of 2 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 MONTCALM COUNTY 4H 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

MONTCALM COUNTY 4H FAIR ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 MONTCALM COUNTY 4H FAIR ASSOCIATION.

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

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 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 MONTCALM COUNTY 4H 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. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

MONTCALM COUNTY 4H FAIR ASSOCIATION's revenue fell 25% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−51% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like MONTCALM COUNTY 4H FAIR ASSOCIATION

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

86%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds MONTCALM COUNTY 4H FAIR ASSOCIATION?
MONTCALM COUNTY 4H FAIR ASSOCIATION (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,286,673 to it, the largest being Greenville Area Community Fnd ($1,281,173). 1 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 MONTCALM COUNTY 4H FAIR ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,286,673 in grants to MONTCALM COUNTY 4H FAIR ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MONTCALM COUNTY 4H FAIR ASSOCIATION?
Greenville Area Community Fnd is the largest funder on record, with $1,281,173 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MONTCALM COUNTY 4H FAIR ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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