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RANSOM COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION

RANSOM COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION (North Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $80,580 to it, the largest being NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($80,580). 1 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 FY2025
$337k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$81k
Net assets
$1.0M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Ransom County Fair Association does

Mission

Conduct annual county fair

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Conduct of ransom county fair *officers directors managers $6,690 *other fair expenses $191532 *interest expense $2,317 *depreciation $20261

    $303,003 spent$91,226 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Rental of expo center *expenses included on page 9, line 6 b *prorated repairs sign expense $2,210 *prorated supplies $2,820 *deposit return $2250

    $0 spent$12,395 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $303,003.

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 ($151k) Expenses 100 ($134k) Net assets 100 ($202k)2018 Revenue 108 ($163k) Expenses 104 ($139k) Net assets 111 ($225k)2019 Revenue 124 ($186k) Expenses 140 ($187k) Net assets 111 ($225k)2020 Revenue 112 ($169k) Expenses 113 ($151k) Net assets 121 ($244k)2021 Revenue 129 ($195k) Expenses 142 ($190k) Net assets 123 ($249k)2022 Revenue 152 ($229k) Expenses 126 ($169k) Net assets 0 ($0)2023 Revenue 181 ($273k) Expenses 165 ($221k) Net assets 0 ($0)2024 Revenue 458 ($691k) Expenses 159 ($213k) Net assets 473 ($957k)2025 Revenue 224 ($337k) Expenses 226 ($303k) Net assets 516 ($1.0M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (224)Expenses (226)Net assets (516)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $316k to $0 (−100%).

$327k
$333k
$316k
$316k
$0
$0
$0
$1.4M
$1.5M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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: 2022 51% · 2023 51% · 2024 22% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
’17
$23k
’18
−$1k
’19
$19k
’20
$5k
’21
$60k
’22
$52k
’23
$478k
’24
$34k
’25
7.4
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.

2022202320242025
Listed4444
Joined·+0+0+0
No longer listed·000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $25k.

Funder
'19
'22
'23
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
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 RANSOM 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.

Where its funders are

100% of RANSOM COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION'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. $81k 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

Organizations like RANSOM COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION

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 North Dakota

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

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds RANSOM COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION?
RANSOM COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION (North Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $80,580 to it, the largest being NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($80,580). 1 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 RANSOM COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $80,580 in grants to RANSOM COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RANSOM COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION?
NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,580 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RANSOM COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing