Brazoria County Fat Stock and Fair Association Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
740524516
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Angleton, TX, USA
Phone
9798496416
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fairs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,800,603
Expenses
$1,714,614
Assets
$2,601,116
Liabilities
$52,706

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

97 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Andrea Schulze (President)
  • Darrell Webb (President Elect)
  • Jennifer Herbst (1st Vice President)
  • Felton Jones (2nd Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Tammi Vasquez (Fair Manager): $92,794 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

See Schedule OThe Brazoria County Fair provides Brazoria County youth with hands-on educational experiences by enabling them to exhibit livestock, agricultural products, scientific projects, and related initiatives. These opportunities allow participants to receive financial support for college through project sales and the BCFA Scholarship program.

What it reported doing in 2025

Brazoria County Fat Stock and Fair Association, Inc. (BCFA) was formed in 1938 to support the youth of Brazoria County through agriculture and education. The annual Brazoria County Fair and Rodeo (the Fair) is BCFA's primary fundraising and program activity. BCFA promotes the education of youth in Brazoria County through experiences that include raising and exhibiting livestock, participating in art, science, and rodeo projects, as well as youth-related initiatives. The BCFA offers financial support for higher education through its scholarship program.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 62% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.9%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 73.8%; rating input score 74
  • Fundraising efficiency: $14.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 4.8%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.52; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 79.9% of revenue deployed · 73.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 94 of 94 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $93K · 97 people listed
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 46/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.