Maryland · Nonprofit
THE GREAT FREDERICK FAIR INC
THE GREAT FREDERICK FAIR INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,307 to it, the largest being TOURISM COUNCIL OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC ($82,506). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $144k
- Net assets
- $66k
What The Great Frederick Fair Inc does
Mission
The great frederick fair, inc. Exists to promote agriculture and the education of our youth about the industry of agriculture.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The following are strategies and policies for carrying our our mission:the fair must be the premier showcase for agriculture and agricultural education.the fair's core activities encompasses the exhibition of livestock, farm, garden, and handmade goods, while encouraging improvements in techniques of production and the development of better agricultural products through a system of awards.education is the number one priority accomplished by providing 4-h and ffa members and youth at large with a means of learning by doing and showing to the public their accomplishments.partnerships with 4h, ffa, and the ag community will promote ag literacy and ag career paths.the fair is in a unique position to foster understanding between the agricultural community and the public, and is a leader in this effort.we must conduct our financial affairs in a business like manner.produce the annual great frederick fair.the fair shall facilitate the display of implements of husbandry and advances in the technology of agriculture.the fair shall provide resources for educational endeavors and production agricultures promotions.the fair shall generate resources from admissions, entertainment, carnival…
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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.
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 $1.5M to $1.8M (+27%).
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 3% · 2018 4% · 2019 3% · 2020 21% · 2021 3% · 2022 3% · 2023 4% · 2024 2% · 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. 7 of the last 9 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $53k → $43k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $180k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Frederick County Agricultural Society Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE GREAT FREDERICK FAIR INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE GREAT FREDERICK FAIR 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
THE GREAT FREDERICK FAIR INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% 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
94% 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 THE GREAT FREDERICK FAIR INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 96% — 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
100% of THE GREAT FREDERICK FAIR INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53k 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.
Government funding THE GREAT FREDERICK FAIR INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Grant$1.2M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE GREAT FREDERICK FAIR 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Frederick County Agriculture Society · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE GREAT FREDERICK FAIR INC?
- THE GREAT FREDERICK FAIR INC (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,307 to it, the largest being TOURISM COUNCIL OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC ($82,506). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GREAT FREDERICK FAIR INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $144,307 in grants to THE GREAT FREDERICK FAIR INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GREAT FREDERICK FAIR INC?
- TOURISM COUNCIL OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $82,506 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GREAT FREDERICK FAIR INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 3 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