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SOUTHERN IOWA FAIR ASSOCIATION

SOUTHERN IOWA FAIR ASSOCIATION (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $19,500 to it, the largest being IOWA HARNESS RACING ASSOCIATION ($19,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$885k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$593k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Southern Iowa Fair Association does

Mission

Operate a regional fair and maintain the fairgrounds

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operated and maintained the fairgrounds

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

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 ($678k) Expenses 100 ($646k) Net assets 100 ($366k)2018 Revenue 106 ($716k) Expenses 106 ($686k) Net assets 112 ($411k)2019 Revenue 104 ($706k) Expenses 115 ($744k) Net assets 102 ($373k)2020 Revenue 81 ($548k) Expenses 82 ($529k) Net assets 107 ($392k)2021 Revenue 127 ($861k) Expenses 120 ($773k) Net assets 138 ($506k)2022 Revenue 108 ($735k) Expenses 118 ($765k) Net assets 130 ($476k)2023 Revenue 132 ($893k) Expenses 132 ($855k) Net assets 140 ($514k)2024 Revenue 126 ($858k) Expenses 131 ($848k) Net assets 143 ($523k)2025 Revenue 131 ($885k) Expenses 126 ($816k) Net assets 162 ($593k)
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Revenue (131)Expenses (126)Net assets (162)

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 $407k to $510k (+25%).

$386k
$420k
$380k
$407k
$510k
$482k
$520k
$523k
$593k
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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: 2017 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 5% · 2021 9% · 2022 4% · 2023 3% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$32k
’17
$31k
’18
−$38k
’19
$19k
’20
$88k
’21
−$30k
’22
$38k
’23
$9k
’24
$70k
’25
2.5
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.

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Listed91212121212121112
Joined·+4+0+0+1+2+2+0+1
No longer listed·10012210
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $6k.

Funder
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total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of SOUTHERN IOWA 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 SOUTHERN IOWA FAIR ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

IA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
Iowa out of state home

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 SOUTHERN IOWA FAIR ASSOCIATION

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In Iowa

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHERN IOWA FAIR ASSOCIATION: 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 SOUTHERN IOWA FAIR ASSOCIATION?
SOUTHERN IOWA FAIR ASSOCIATION (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $19,500 to it, the largest being IOWA HARNESS RACING ASSOCIATION ($19,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOUTHERN IOWA FAIR ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $19,500 in grants to SOUTHERN IOWA FAIR ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTHERN IOWA FAIR ASSOCIATION?
IOWA HARNESS RACING ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $19,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTHERN IOWA FAIR ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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