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NAPA COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION

NAPA COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,039 to it, the largest being CALISTOGA TOURSIM IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ($163,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$74k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$166k
Net assets
$0
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Napa County Fair Association does

Mission

To operate the county fair activities in a manner that will protect the future financial integrity of the business and maximize the social, cultural, recreation and educational benefit to the surrounding communities

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The association has been under contract to the county of napa to operate and manage the mapa county fairgrounds, including all activities carried out by the fairgrounds on behalf of the county of napa. The primary activity is napa county fair events

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

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 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 70 ($1.1M) Expenses 126 ($1.8M) Net assets 43 ($541k)2019 Revenue 26 ($399k) Expenses 51 ($728k) Net assets 17 ($212k)2020 Revenue 13 ($197k) Expenses 14 ($197k) Net assets 17 ($212k)2021 Revenue 6 ($89k) Expenses 7 ($101k) Net assets 16 ($199k)2022 Revenue 17 ($256k) Expenses 9 ($130k) Net assets 26 ($325k)2023 Revenue 8 ($119k) Expenses 20 ($286k) Net assets 15 ($189k)2024 Revenue 19 ($292k) Expenses 24 ($345k) Net assets 12 ($147k)2025 Revenue 5 ($74k) Expenses 14 ($194k) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (5)Expenses (14)Net assets (0)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 2017 to 2018, from $1.7M to $715k (−59%).

$1.7M
$715k
$260k
$318k
$318k
$350k
$203k
$147k
$0
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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: 2017 4% · 2018 13% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

90% of NAPA COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 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.

$101k
’17
−$729k
’18
−$329k
’19
$0
’20
−$12k
’21
$126k
’22
−$166k
’23
−$53k
’24
−$119k
’25
4.0
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

Karan Schlegel

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

201720182019202220232024
Listed787766
Joined·+5+2·+0+0
No longer listed·43·10
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $16k → $3k.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
'25*
total
funders
1
1
2
1
1
2
1

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 NAPA 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

NAPA COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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

98% 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 NAPA COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION.

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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 NAPA COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39 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

NAPA COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION's revenue fell 95% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−160% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−31% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture 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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NAPA 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 NAPA COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION?
NAPA COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,039 to it, the largest being CALISTOGA TOURSIM IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ($163,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NAPA COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $166,039 in grants to NAPA COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NAPA COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION?
CALISTOGA TOURSIM IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT is the largest funder on record, with $163,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NAPA COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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