Iowa · Nonprofit
WOODBURY COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
WOODBURY COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,402 to it, the largest being MISSOURI RIVER HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT INC ($86,241). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $542k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $111k
- Net assets
- $971k
What Woodbury County Fair Association does
Mission
Annual five day county fair to positively impact the lives of the young at heart by encouraging participation, leadership, and education by creating avenues for activities like 4-h and talent shows. The fair also offers educational leadership.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Providing facilities for county fair located in woodbury county, iowa serving a county population of 106,000. A recent addition to the fair is the varied industries building which doubles as a tornado shelter. The fairgrounds houses administrative offices, exhibitor buildings for livestock, food, clothing, farm equipment, camping area, concession space, carnival riding area, grandstand with track arena, old town section and parking spaces complete the grounds.
$230,651 spent$189,454 earned by the program46% of program spendingEntertainment and eating: local and regional acts perform on different stages from the grandstand to the free stage. A carnival is provided each day of the fair and many concession stands also serve the various tastes of the fairgoer.
$220,512 spent$216,183 earned by the program44% of program spendingOther program services
$55,650 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $506,813.
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 $797k to $966k (+21%).
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 10% · 2018 11% · 2019 12% · 2020 19% · 2021 47% · 2022 10% · 2023 10% · 2024 6% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of WOODBURY COUNTY 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. 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
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $23k → $11.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 WOODBURY COUNTY 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
WOODBURY COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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
99% 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 WOODBURY COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 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
100% of WOODBURY COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
WOODBURY COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION's revenue grew 60% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WOODBURY COUNTY 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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 WOODBURY COUNTY 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 WOODBURY COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION?
- WOODBURY COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,402 to it, the largest being MISSOURI RIVER HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT INC ($86,241). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOODBURY COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $111,402 in grants to WOODBURY COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOODBURY COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION?
- MISSOURI RIVER HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $86,241 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOODBURY COUNTY FAIR 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing