Missouri · Nonprofit
OZARK EMPIRE FAIR FOUNDATION
OZARK EMPIRE FAIR FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,600 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ($84,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $24M
What Ozark Empire Fair Foundation does
Mission
Established in 2003, the Ozark Empire Fair Foundation is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization whose mission is to provide agricultural youth scholarships and grants, and provide funding for major improvements to greene county agricultural and mechanical society and its facilities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The foundation provides resources for the ozark empire fair to create and present exhibits and attractions which emphasize agriculture and provide an educational opportunity. The main attraction is the gold buckle gala. Approximately 595 people attend the event, which includes a meal, silent auction, and auction of the top junior livestock entries.
$1,769,357 spentof which $276,154 as grants$131,437 earned by the program99% of program spendingThe foundation provides a program in which sponsorship funds are obtained from purebred livestock producers. These funds are then awarded, in the form of $1,000 animal purchase certificates, by random drawing to youth livestock exhibitors to assist them in purchasing animals from the participating breeders.
$10,500 spentof which $10,500 as grants1% of program spendingThe foundation provides the supreme beef award program which recognizes the top junior beef livestock exhibitors at the ozark empire fair. A total of $5,500 was distributed to 4-h and ffa members.
$5,500 spentof which $5,500 as grants0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,785,357.
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 2022 to 2023, from $12M to $31M (+151%).
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: 2022 78% · 2023 81% · 2024 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of OZARK EMPIRE FAIR FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500 → $10k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 OZARK EMPIRE FAIR FOUNDATION’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
OZARK EMPIRE FAIR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% 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
84% 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 OZARK EMPIRE FAIR FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 64% · 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
84% of OZARK EMPIRE FAIR FOUNDATION'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. Of the $16k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84k 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
OZARK EMPIRE FAIR FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like OZARK EMPIRE FAIR FOUNDATION
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OZARK EMPIRE FAIR FOUNDATION: 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 OZARK EMPIRE FAIR FOUNDATION?
- OZARK EMPIRE FAIR FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,600 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ($84,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OZARK EMPIRE FAIR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $99,600 in grants to OZARK EMPIRE FAIR FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OZARK EMPIRE FAIR FOUNDATION?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $84,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OZARK EMPIRE FAIR FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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