Texas · Nonprofit
WHARTON FAIR FUND INC
WHARTON FAIR FUND INC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,000 to it, the largest being STUART I MEYERS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($8,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $84k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $23k
What Wharton Fair Fund Inc does
Mission
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to instill in the wharton fair exhibitors the ideals of sportsmanship, honesty, loyalty, courage and respect for authority so that they may be well adjusted, stronger and happier exhibitors and will grow to be decent, healthy and trustworthy citizens of tomorrow. Specifically, the objective of the wharton fair fund, inc. Is to raise funds for awards and payments towards fair projects of wharton fair exhibitors.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The annual fundraiser was held in march. Funds raised from the dinner, auction and raffles were used to purchase animal projects at the county fair sale of excellence and freezer sale in may.
$90,121 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $90,121.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $20k to $31k (+54%).
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.
0% of WHARTON FAIR FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $4k.
From the IRS filings of WHARTON FAIR FUND 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.
Where its funders are
WHARTON FAIR FUND INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.
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
WHARTON FAIR FUND INC has grown faster than half of the 4,682 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,682 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like WHARTON FAIR FUND 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 WHARTON FAIR FUND INC: 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 WHARTON FAIR FUND INC?
- WHARTON FAIR FUND INC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,000 to it, the largest being STUART I MEYERS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($8,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHARTON FAIR FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $8,000 in grants to WHARTON FAIR FUND INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHARTON FAIR FUND INC?
- STUART I MEYERS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHARTON FAIR FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 1 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