Michigan · Nonprofit
VANBUREN YOUTH FAIR ASSOCIATION
VANBUREN YOUTH FAIR ASSOCIATION (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being PERRIGO COMPANY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $932k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Vanburen Youth Fair Association does
Mission
Education of youth concerning all aspects of agriculture
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Associations primary purpose is to hold the annual Van Buren County Fair where children and their parents learn about agriculture, farm animals, and domestic activities. Youth learn about raising farm animals, crop production, and all other areas of agriculture. Youth show animals from horses, to cats, to pigs, to rabbits, to cows, etc. The entire environment of fair week integrates all these agricultural activities with family oriented entertainment.
$772,068 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $772,068.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $1.5M (+14%).
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: 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of VANBUREN YOUTH FAIR ASSOCIATION’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. 0 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Pat Burnell
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $500.
From the IRS filings of VANBUREN YOUTH 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.
How concentrated its funding is
VANBUREN YOUTH FAIR ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
80% of VANBUREN YOUTH FAIR ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
VANBUREN YOUTH FAIR ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like VANBUREN YOUTH 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VANBUREN YOUTH 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 VANBUREN YOUTH FAIR ASSOCIATION?
- VANBUREN YOUTH FAIR ASSOCIATION (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being PERRIGO COMPANY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VANBUREN YOUTH FAIR ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,500 in grants to VANBUREN YOUTH FAIR ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VANBUREN YOUTH FAIR ASSOCIATION?
- PERRIGO COMPANY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VANBUREN YOUTH FAIR ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 2 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