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SUSSEX COUNTY FARM AND HORSE SHOW ASSOCIATION INC

SUSSEX COUNTY FARM AND HORSE SHOW ASSOCIATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $237,609 to it, the largest being THE SUSSEX COUNTY FARM & HORSE SHOW FOUNDATION INC ($160,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.8M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$238k
Net assets
$3.2M
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Sussex County Farm and Horse Show Association Inc does

Mission

The association's exempt purposes are to conduct the sussex county farm and horse show (also known as the new jersey state fair), bring attention to sussex county, new jersey through community participation, encourage leadership, sportsmanship and development in the youth of the county, develop agriculture in all its branches, and support sussex county, new jersey charities to lessen burdens on local communities in meeting their human, health, and welfare needs.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Fair division: to provide safe, family friendly entertainment, present educational activities, promote youth development and give financial support to charitable non-profit organizations.

    $2,508,362 spentof which $3,000 as grants$2,041,998 earned by the program
    86% of program spending
  2. Agricultural division: to showcase new jersey's agriculture.

    $49,513 spent$58,389 earned by the program
    2% of program spending
  3. Horse show division: to demonstrate the excellence and commitment of the community to these wonderful animals and help raise funds to do maintenance to the facility as well as offer scholarships to students of the sussex county area.

    $364,710 spent$396,290 earned by the program
    12% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,922,585.

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 ($2.9M) Expenses 100 ($2.9M) Net assets 100 ($3.6M)2018 Revenue 91 ($2.6M) Expenses 101 ($2.9M) Net assets 92 ($3.4M)2019 Revenue 94 ($2.7M) Expenses 100 ($2.9M) Net assets 88 ($3.2M)2020 Revenue 7 ($209k) Expenses 33 ($953k) Net assets 67 ($2.5M)2021 Revenue 93 ($2.7M) Expenses 75 ($2.2M) Net assets 82 ($3.0M)2022 Revenue 108 ($3.2M) Expenses 96 ($2.8M) Net assets 93 ($3.4M)2023 Revenue 105 ($3.1M) Expenses 100 ($2.9M) Net assets 97 ($3.5M)2024 Revenue 95 ($2.8M) Expenses 108 ($3.1M) Net assets 87 ($3.2M)
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Revenue (95)Expenses (108)Net assets (87)Peer revenue range

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 $3.3M to $4.1M (+22%).

$4.0M
$3.9M
$3.7M
$3.3M
$4.1M
$4.3M
$4.4M
$4.1M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 53% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

14% of SUSSEX COUNTY FARM AND HORSE SHOW ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
’17
−$275k
’18
−$166k
’19
−$743k
’20
$543k
’21
$374k
’22
$169k
’23
−$357k
’24
6.1
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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Listed1818201918181818
Joined·+2+5+1+1+1+5+0
No longer listed·2322150
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $48k → $35k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 SUSSEX COUNTY FARM AND HORSE SHOW ASSOCIATION 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.

How concentrated its funding is

SUSSEX COUNTY FARM AND HORSE SHOW ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 SUSSEX COUNTY FARM AND HORSE SHOW ASSOCIATION INC.

67%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

100% of SUSSEX COUNTY FARM AND HORSE SHOW ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

NJ

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

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’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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

SUSSEX COUNTY FARM AND HORSE SHOW ASSOCIATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 5%Fundraising 2%

Governance

18
board members
94%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

74%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

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Questions and answers

Who funds SUSSEX COUNTY FARM AND HORSE SHOW ASSOCIATION INC?
SUSSEX COUNTY FARM AND HORSE SHOW ASSOCIATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $237,609 to it, the largest being THE SUSSEX COUNTY FARM & HORSE SHOW FOUNDATION INC ($160,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SUSSEX COUNTY FARM AND HORSE SHOW ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $237,609 in grants to SUSSEX COUNTY FARM AND HORSE SHOW ASSOCIATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SUSSEX COUNTY FARM AND HORSE SHOW ASSOCIATION INC?
THE SUSSEX COUNTY FARM & HORSE SHOW FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SUSSEX COUNTY FARM AND HORSE SHOW ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
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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 5 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