Maries County Fair Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431111946
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Vienna, MO, USA
- Phone
- 6182105778
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fairs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $178,601
- Expenses
- $159,168
- Assets
- $581,102
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHELLE KING (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- DANA WANSING (Assist Treas)
- AMANDA SANDBOTHE (resident)
- KACIE JAMES (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Maries County Fair Association fosters community involvement and development, promotes local businesses and organizations, promotes and advances the interest of agriculture and encourages entrepreneurship in children by hosting the annual county fair. The fair board is committed to the operation of the fairground facilities, which generates economic stimulation and tourism development in Maries County, MO.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Maries County Fair Board spends 100% of their volunteered time working toward planning and hosting the county fair. The Maries County Fair is funded by donations, sponsorships and fee-for-service activities. All expenses are directly related to successfully hosting the county fair. The annual county fair is a social gathering place where family values are honored and individuals of all ages are entertained by celebrating the past, present, and future of Maries County, MO.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.3%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 95.7%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.9%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.65; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 70.3% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.3% of revenue deployed · 95.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $152K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.