Indiana · Nonprofit
Starke County Fair Board Incorporated
Starke County Fair Board Incorporated (Indiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,948 to it, the largest being Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 748 ($61,748). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $325k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $102k
- Net assets
- $376k
What Starke County Fair Board Incorporated does
Mission
To provide oversight, management and operation of the 4-H Fair each year at Hamlet, Indiana. To maintain and provide buildings and grounds to conduct the fair. To operate fair activities
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Fair Board supervises the 4-H Livestock auction held each year so 4-H members can sell their animals. This provides the 4-Hers an opportunity to raise funds for their 4-H projects and allows the community to reward their hard work. A donation to the Indiana 4-H Foundation is made with funds generated by the auction.
$233,290 spent$240,210 earned by the program77% of program spendingThe Fair Board purchases trophies, ribbons, and plaques for the open-show competitions, which are not 4-H members, but members of the community. They also pay for the judges fees and serve as a pass through organization for 4-H Junior Leaders.
$4,827 spent2% of program spendingThe Fair Board provides funds for outside services such as advertising, printing & copying, entertainment, and supplies used during the fair . The Board also provides funds to maintain and repair the fairgrounds and pay for utilities to run the fairgrounds.
$62,786 spent$51,924 earned by the program21% of program spendingThe Fair Board provides scholarships for 4-H members through scholarship funds which they distribute The board also contributes to the scholarship fund of the Indiana 4-H Foundation. Donation was made to a local non-profit.
$1,550 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $302,453.
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 $291k to $379k (+30%).
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: 2017 5% · 2018 6% · 2019 5% · 2020 27% · 2021 6% · 2022 4% · 2023 3% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of Starke County Fair Board Incorporated’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $500 → $36k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 Starke County Fair Board Incorporated’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
Starke County Fair Board Incorporated leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% 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
96% 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 Starke County Fair Board Incorporated.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 62% · 2022 100% · 2023 60% — diversifying over time.
“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
99% of Starke County Fair Board Incorporated's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k 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
Starke County Fair Board Incorporated's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Starke County Fair Board Incorporated
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Starke County Fair Board Incorporated: 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 Starke County Fair Board Incorporated?
- Starke County Fair Board Incorporated (Indiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,948 to it, the largest being Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 748 ($61,748). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Starke County Fair Board Incorporated have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $101,948 in grants to Starke County Fair Board Incorporated, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Starke County Fair Board Incorporated?
- Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 748 is the largest funder on record, with $61,748 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Starke County Fair Board Incorporated find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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