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PENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY FAIRS (FRANKLIN COUNTY FAIR COMMISSION)

PENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY FAIRS (FRANKLIN COUNTY FAIR COMMISSION) (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,442 to it, the largest being THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES ($32,442). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$322k
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$37k
Grants received
$269k
Net assets
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%

Against its field

PENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY FAIRS (FRANKLIN COUNTY FAIR COMMISSION) runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,426 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin51% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,426 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($93k) Expenses 100 ($77k) Net assets -8 ($-3332)2018 Revenue 92 ($85k) Expenses 113 ($87k) Net assets -12 ($-4972)2019 Revenue 109 ($101k) Expenses 130 ($100k) Net assets -8 ($-3471)2020 Revenue 81 ($75k) Expenses 38 ($29k) Net assets 100 ($42k)2021 Revenue 119 ($110k) Expenses 161 ($124k) Net assets 71 ($30k)2022 Revenue 168 ($156k) Expenses 226 ($174k) Net assets 28 ($12k)2023 Revenue 290 ($269k) Expenses 199 ($153k) Net assets 304 ($128k)2024 Revenue 156 ($145k) Expenses 218 ($168k) Net assets 251 ($106k)2025 Revenue 347 ($322k) Expenses 207 ($159k) Net assets 637 ($269k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (347)Expenses (207)Net assets (637)Peer revenue range

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: 2023 47% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

76% of PENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY FAIRS (FRANKLIN COUNTY FAIR COMMISSION)’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,403 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$16k
17
$2k
18
$2k
19
$46k
20
$13k
21
$18k
22
$116k
23
$23k
24
$163k
25
5.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)87% 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 PENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY FAIRS (FRANKLIN COUNTY FAIR COMMISSION)’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

PENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY FAIRS (FRANKLIN COUNTY FAIR COMMISSION) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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

87% 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 PENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY FAIRS (FRANKLIN COUNTY FAIR COMMISSION).

87%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

87% of PENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY FAIRS (FRANKLIN COUNTY FAIR COMMISSION)'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state.

MN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like PENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY FAIRS (FRANKLIN COUNTY FAIR COMMISSION)

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Pennsylvania

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

96%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY FAIRS (FRANKLIN COUNTY FAIR COMMISSION): 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds PENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY FAIRS (FRANKLIN COUNTY FAIR COMMISSION)?
PENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY FAIRS (FRANKLIN COUNTY FAIR COMMISSION) (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,442 to it, the largest being THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES ($32,442). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY FAIRS (FRANKLIN COUNTY FAIR COMMISSION) have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $37,442 in grants to PENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY FAIRS (FRANKLIN COUNTY FAIR COMMISSION).
Who is the largest funder of PENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY FAIRS (FRANKLIN COUNTY FAIR COMMISSION)?
THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES is the largest funder on record, with $32,442 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY FAIRS (FRANKLIN COUNTY FAIR COMMISSION) find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing