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POLSON FAIRGROUNDS INC

POLSON FAIRGROUNDS INC (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,750 to it, the largest being LOWER FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($5,750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$80k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$6k
Net assets
$330k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Polson Fairgrounds Inc does

Mission

County fairgrounds maintenance

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Maintain and improve the lake county fairgrounds

    $52,857 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $52,857.

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 ($43k) Expenses 100 ($36k) Net assets 100 ($198k)2018 Revenue 70 ($30k) Expenses 87 ($32k) Net assets 99 ($196k)2019 Revenue 101 ($44k) Expenses 90 ($33k) Net assets 105 ($207k)2020 Revenue 78 ($34k) Expenses 70 ($26k) Net assets 109 ($216k)2021 Revenue 101 ($44k) Expenses 101 ($37k) Net assets 113 ($223k)2022 Revenue 217 ($94k) Expenses 144 ($52k) Net assets 134 ($264k)2023 Revenue 200 ($86k) Expenses 134 ($49k) Net assets 153 ($302k)2024 Revenue 185 ($80k) Expenses 146 ($53k) Net assets 167 ($330k)
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Revenue (185)Expenses (146)Net assets (167)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $223k to $264k (+19%).

$198k
$196k
$207k
$216k
$223k
$264k
$302k
$330k
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Total assets

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

89% of POLSON FAIRGROUNDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,075 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$7k
’17
−$1k
’18
$11k
’19
$8k
’20
$7k
’21
$42k
’22
$38k
’23
$27k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 POLSON FAIRGROUNDS INC’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 POLSON FAIRGROUNDS INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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

POLSON FAIRGROUNDS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin34% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like POLSON FAIRGROUNDS INC

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 Montana

Nationally

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.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POLSON FAIRGROUNDS INC: 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 POLSON FAIRGROUNDS INC?
POLSON FAIRGROUNDS INC (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,750 to it, the largest being LOWER FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($5,750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does POLSON FAIRGROUNDS INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,750 in grants to POLSON FAIRGROUNDS INC.
Who is the largest funder of POLSON FAIRGROUNDS INC?
LOWER FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like POLSON FAIRGROUNDS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 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