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NORMAN COUNTY AGRICULTURE SOCIETY

NORMAN COUNTY AGRICULTURE SOCIETY (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$192k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$830k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Norman County Agriculture Society does

Mission

Agricultural fair

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Conducting an agricultural fair and exposition for the display and education of agricultural exhibits.

    $161,168 spent$120,709 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $161,168.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($77k) Expenses 100 ($29k) Net assets 100 ($660k)2020 Revenue 83 ($64k) Expenses 122 ($36k) Net assets 109 ($717k)2023 Revenue 98 ($76k) Expenses 249 ($73k) Net assets 107 ($708k)2024 Revenue 126 ($97k) Expenses 20 ($6k) Net assets 121 ($799k)2025 Revenue 249 ($192k) Expenses 551 ($161k) Net assets 126 ($830k)
20172020202320242025
Revenue (249)Expenses (551)Net assets (126)

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 $738k to $824k (+12%).

$660k
$717k
$738k
$824k
$851k
20172020202320242025
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
2020
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 16% · 2020 19% · 2024 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$48k
’17
$29k
’20
$3k
’23
$92k
’24
$31k
’25
1.2
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.

Chief executive

Don Merkens

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20172020202320242025
Listed44444
Joined···+2+0
No longer listed···20
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of NORMAN COUNTY AGRICULTURE SOCIETY’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.

Where its funders are

100% of NORMAN COUNTY AGRICULTURE SOCIETY's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like NORMAN COUNTY AGRICULTURE SOCIETY

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 Minnesota

Nationally

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

4
board members
0%
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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORMAN COUNTY AGRICULTURE SOCIETY: 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 NORMAN COUNTY AGRICULTURE SOCIETY?
NORMAN COUNTY AGRICULTURE SOCIETY (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NORMAN COUNTY AGRICULTURE SOCIETY have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to NORMAN COUNTY AGRICULTURE SOCIETY.
Who is the largest funder of NORMAN COUNTY AGRICULTURE SOCIETY?
NORTHWEST MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NORMAN COUNTY AGRICULTURE SOCIETY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 1 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