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.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $5.9M
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What York County Agricultural Society does
Mission
The mission of the society is to enrich the area's quality of life by providing and facilitating educational, entertainment, recreational, agricultural, commercial and social activities for the benefit of the residents and businesses of york county.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization conducts an annual agricultural fair for ten days at the end of july. Fairground facilities are rented to outside promoters for many non-fair events throughout the year.
$9,423,138 spent$8,139,018 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,423,138.
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 2021 to 2022, from $13M to $17M (+25%).
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 (10% 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
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.
Board chair
Bella Fix
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
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.
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
Organizations like YORK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
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 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.
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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 6 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