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INDIANA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION INC

EIN 45-2784384 INDIANAPOLIS, IN

Revenue 2024
$1,520,236
Expenses 2024
$573,068

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
N52
Classification
1000
Street
1202 EAST 38TH STREET

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO SUPPORT THE YEAR ROUND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION, AND CAMPUS STEWARDSHIP PROJECTS OF THE INDIANA STATE FAIR COMMISSION FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL CITIZENS OF INDIANA.

  • ASSIST AND SUPPORT THE EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE INDIANA STATE FAIR, INCLUDING THE ANNUAL INDIANA STATE FAIR AND THE OPERATION, MANAGEMENT, ADMINISTRATION, PRESERVATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF THE INDIANA STATE FAIRGROUNDS AND ITS HISTORIC STRUCTURES.

    Expenses $573,068 · Grants $26,616 · Revenue $4,982

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Mitch Frazier

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Angela Abbott

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cheri Daniels

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Don Lamb

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Greg Schenkel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gwen Mize

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • John Gregg

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leigh Evans

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Miriam Robeson

    Director (through Sept 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Olgen Williams

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rep Bob Cherry

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Samuel Frain

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sandy Neukam

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sen Jean Leising

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shane Hageman

    Director (as of Dec 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Terry Strueh

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cynthia C Hoye

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $252,777
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $218,539
    Other
    $34,238
    Hours/week
    2 + 38 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $165,573 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $50,346 related
    Other
    $0 + $2,620 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $390 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $33,848 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $252,777 related

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,520,236
    Expenses
    $573,068
    Contributions
    $1,514,231
    Grants paid
    $26,616
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $559,600
    Expenses
    $638,815
    Contributions
    $546,221
    Grants paid
    $27,400
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $447,323
    Expenses
    $291,164
    Contributions
    $434,540
    Grants paid
    $25,810

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $423,404
    Expenses
    $401,331
    Assets (EOY)
    $732,026

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $232,420
    Expenses
    $299,173
    Assets (EOY)
    $763,843

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $386,290
    Expenses
    $396,381
    Assets (EOY)
    $816,794

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $345,019
    Expenses
    $6,952,541
    Assets (EOY)
    $805,341

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $339,370
    Expenses
    $337,837
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,429,401

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $633,115
    Expenses
    $406,061
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,385,639

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,001,440
    Expenses
    $775,105
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,957,881

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $505,089
    Expenses
    $2,465,433
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,890,099

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

  • INDIANA STATE FAIR COMMISSION

    STATE FAIR · IN

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2014, reinstated 15 May 2014.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.