Iowa · Nonprofit
WINNESHIEK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION
WINNESHIEK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,083 to it, the largest being Independence Bancshares Charitable Foundation Inc ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $582k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Winneshiek County Agricultural Association does
Mission
To provide the annual, free winneshiek county fair, to advance the interests of animal husbandry, agriculture, horticulture & floriculture, to improve & encourage breeding of fine stock, and to stimulate the study of arts & sciences, especially for youths & young adults, providing the facilities & events to exhibit the products & results of theses educational and scientific projects, as well as art & craft projects and the performing arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Annual attendance at the fairs regularly exceeds total population of county, usually by 50% more; an estimated 38,500 attendess usually come to see the livestock entries and exhibits from every 4-h and ffa organization in the county, plus all high schools and most non-profit charitable organizations; each year has included sponsorship of the annual bill riley state fair talent search that included both sprout & senior division entrants from ages 2 to 22.
$504,349 spent88% of program spendingHosting weekly summer stock car races for residents of winneshiek county along with rodeo and tractor pull.
$68,190 spent12% of program spendingFairgrounds facilities events that typically occur in the year include ffa banquet, iowa driftless banquet, community farmers market, decorah area chamber of comemerce ag committee meetings and womens weekend out event, regional fire departments benefit rodeo, upper iowa training club session, ne iowa community action training sessions, winter storage for county residents, luther college, nordic fest and alliant energy.
$1,682 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $574,221.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $869k to $1.7M (+97%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 14% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 6% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of WINNESHIEK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $53.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 WINNESHIEK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL 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
WINNESHIEK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
WINNESHIEK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $83 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.
Against its field
WINNESHIEK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION's revenue grew 35% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WINNESHIEK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL 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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WINNESHIEK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL 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 WINNESHIEK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION?
- WINNESHIEK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,083 to it, the largest being Independence Bancshares Charitable Foundation Inc ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WINNESHIEK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $10,083 in grants to WINNESHIEK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WINNESHIEK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION?
- Independence Bancshares Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WINNESHIEK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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