Texas · Nonprofit
Montgomery County Fair Association
Montgomery County Fair Association (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,625 to it, the largest being HOLD'EM & HIT'EM CLUB ($50,075). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $99k
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Montgomery County Fair Association does
Mission
To provide scholarships, prizes, and awards to county youth for their achievements in agricultural and home economics contests. Adult residents of Montgomery County are limited to prizes and awards in separate programs for homemaking, fine arts, and horticulture.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Scholarship Program began in 1993 when the Scholarship Trail Ride Committee was established. The funds raised support scholarships for graduating seniors. The proceeds from the Scholarship Trail Ride, the Scholarship Chili Cook-off, and 5% of the Junior Livestock and Junior Non-Livestock Auctions of the Fair are contributed to the scholarship fund. Since the program began, over $2.7 million in college scholarships have been awarded. In 2024-2025, the MCFA committed $154,203 in scholarships to graduating seniors in Montgomery County. College-bound graduates received 63 academic scholarships from a combination of the Fair Queen Contest, Colt Show Hi-Point Program, Replacement Heifer Program, and Calf Scramble Program.
$2,997,567 spentof which $154,203 as grants$2,900,402 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,997,567.
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 2019 to 2020, from $5.3M to $5.0M (−7%).
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: 2021 2% · 2022 1% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of Montgomery County Fair Association’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $9k → $14k.
From the IRS filings of Montgomery 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
Montgomery County Fair Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 Montgomery County Fair Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 58% · 2019 65% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 48% — 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 Montgomery 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.
Against its field
Montgomery County Fair Association holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Montgomery County Fair Association
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Montgomery County Fair Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Montgomery 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Montgomery County Fair Association?
- Montgomery County Fair Association (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,625 to it, the largest being HOLD'EM & HIT'EM CLUB ($50,075). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Montgomery County Fair Association have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $98,625 in grants to Montgomery County Fair Association, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Montgomery County Fair Association?
- HOLD'EM & HIT'EM CLUB is the largest funder on record, with $50,075 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Montgomery 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.
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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 5 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