Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
YORK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
YORK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,886,058 to it, the largest being York County Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc ($4,951,986). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
YORK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY has grown faster than half of the 303 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 303 recreation & sports nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- White Rose Leadership Instituteshared funderslocalportfolio match
- United Way of York Countyshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Arthur J and Lee R Glatfelter Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
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.
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 4% · 2022 27% · 2023 18% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of YORK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $718k → $675k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 YORK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY’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
YORK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% 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
100% 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 YORK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 86% · 2019 83% · 2020 80% · 2021 81% · 2022 81% · 2023 81% — diversifying over time.
“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 YORK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $880k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- White Rose Leadership Instituteshared funderslocalportfolio matchPA · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · funds 53 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of York Countyshared funderslocalportfolio matchPA · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 69 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Arthur J and Lee R Glatfelter Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchPA · backs 64 organizations that share your funders · funds 75 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The W Dale Brougher Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchFL · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · funds 44 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Airie Knipel Harry V and J William Warehime Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchPA · backs 65 organizations that share your funders · funds 96 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Cultural Alliance of York Countylocalportfolio matchPA · funds 16 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Graham Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchPA · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · funds 34 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Shipley Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchPA · funds 19 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Kinsley Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchPA · backs 47 organizations that share your funders · funds 66 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Hodges Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Memorial Health Fundshared funderslocalPA · backs 43 organizations that share your funders · funds 60 organizations near you
- York County Food BanklocalPA · funds 51 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like YORK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YORK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds YORK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY?
- YORK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,886,058 to it, the largest being York County Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc ($4,951,986). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YORK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $5,886,058 in grants to YORK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YORK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY?
- York County Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc is the largest funder on record, with $4,951,986 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YORK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing