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WALWORTH COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION INC

WALWORTH COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,049 to it, the largest being KUNES FAMILY FOUNDATION ($16,649). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$92k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$23k
Net assets
$529k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 58%
01What it does

What Walworth County Fair Foundation Inc does

Mission

The Walworth County Fair Foundation Inc. Was formrd with the purpose of supporting and developing programs to augment the services and facilities currently held at the walworth county agriculture society (a recognized nonprofit organization). The Walworth County Fair Foundation Inc. Is a vehicle to promote, stimulate and encourage gifts of funds and property that will be used by the walworth county agriculture society. Walworth county agriculture society is a nonprofit organization that operates the walworth county fair. The walworth county fair's primary objective is to promote educational opportunities for both the youth and the general public through agricultural and related fields. Contributions recievied will be used to support and develop programs to augment the services and facilities of the walworth county fair.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Fundraising

  2. General donation.

    $396 spentof which $396 as grants
    100% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $396.

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 ($30k) Expenses 100 ($93k) Net assets 100 ($367k)2018 Revenue 149 ($44k) Expenses 11 ($10k) Net assets 109 ($401k)2019 Revenue 328 ($97k) Expenses 80 ($75k) Net assets 116 ($423k)2020 Revenue 73 ($22k) Expenses 6 ($5k) Net assets 120 ($440k)2021 Revenue 209 ($62k) Expenses 56 ($52k) Net assets 123 ($450k)2022 Revenue 166 ($49k) Expenses 2 ($2k) Net assets 132 ($484k)2023 Revenue 169 ($50k) Expenses 32 ($29k) Net assets 138 ($505k)2024 Revenue 171 ($51k) Expenses 123 ($114k) Net assets 120 ($442k)2025 Revenue 308 ($92k) Expenses 4 ($4k) Net assets 144 ($529k)
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Revenue (308)Expenses (4)Net assets (144)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 2024 to 2025, from $460k to $548k (+19%).

$369k
$409k
$432k
$449k
$459k
$513k
$528k
$460k
$548k
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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

1% of WALWORTH COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

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

−$63k
’17
$34k
’18
$23k
’19
$16k
’20
$10k
’21
$48k
’22
$21k
’23
−$63k
’24
$87k
’25
1558
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.

2022202320242025
Listed4499
Joined·+1+5+0
No longer listed·100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $17k → $3k.

From the IRS filings of WALWORTH COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION 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

WALWORTH COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

72%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 83% · 2019 83% · 2020 100% · 2021 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

89% of WALWORTH COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

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WI

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

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Wisconsin 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

Against its field

WALWORTH COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin95% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve1557.5mo · outside the comparable range
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

10% of spending goes to programs.

Program 10%Management 90%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

26%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds WALWORTH COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION INC?
WALWORTH COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,049 to it, the largest being KUNES FAMILY FOUNDATION ($16,649). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WALWORTH COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $23,049 in grants to WALWORTH COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WALWORTH COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION INC?
KUNES FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16,649 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WALWORTH COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 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