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WOOD COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

EIN 34-4445123 BOWLING GREEN, OH

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Revenue 2023
$1,779,586
Expenses 2023
$1,810,052

Program services were 90.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 146

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 · 2023

Mission

TO OPERATE THE WOOD COUNTY FAIR, MAINTAIN THE GROUNDS, AND RENT THE GROUNDS FOR EVENTS THAT ARE SCHEDULED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CITIZENS OF WOOD COUNTY, OHIO IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE OHIO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

  • CONDUCTS THE WOOD COUNTY, OHIO FAIR FOR ONE WEEK TO PROMOTE AGRICULTURE BY PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING FACILITIES TO SUPPORT THE PROGRAMS ACTIVITIES SUCH AS JUNIOR & SENIOR FAIR COMPETITIONS, AMUSEMENT RIDES, HORSE RACES, GRANDSTAND EVENTS, ETC. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CITIZENS OF WOOD COUNTY, OHIO. THE FAIR WAS ATTENDED BY APPROXIMATELY 100,000 PEOPLE.

    Expenses $1,643,701 · Revenue $1,454,804

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Laura Westgate

    MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $52,500
    From this org
    $52,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Katherine Thomas

    SECTREAS

    Total calculated
    $27,850
    From this org
    $27,850
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Robert Strow

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $322
    From this org
    $322
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Dave Nietz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $322
    From this org
    $322
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Brock Abke

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $314
    From this org
    $314
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Paul Perry

    2ND VP

    Total calculated
    $282
    From this org
    $282
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • John Nissen

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $275
    From this org
    $275
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Deanne Corken

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $250
    From this org
    $250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Jessica Nagel

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $244
    From this org
    $244
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Conni Grames

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $242
    From this org
    $242
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Charlie Blasius

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $226
    From this org
    $226
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Cody Bame

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $223
    From this org
    $223
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Doug Michaelis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $222
    From this org
    $222
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Steve Speck

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $219
    From this org
    $219
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Chris Shilling

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $217
    From this org
    $217
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Tony Violi

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $214
    From this org
    $214
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Jon Shinew

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $212
    From this org
    $212
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Justin Barndt

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $210
    From this org
    $210
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Donald Bechstein

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $190
    From this org
    $190
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Melissa Leimgruber

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $183
    From this org
    $183
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Matt Zeigler

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $179
    From this org
    $179
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Craig Coe

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $176
    From this org
    $176
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Kip McDowell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $157
    From this org
    $157
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Tyler Burris

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $146
    From this org
    $146
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Brad Hannan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $144
    From this org
    $144
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

The first 25 listed. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,779,586
    Expenses
    $1,810,052
    Contributions
    $317,940
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,286,472
    Expenses
    $1,132,913
    Contributions
    $195,735
    Grants paid
    $5,430

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
    $987,422
    Expenses
    $1,104,114
    Assets (EOY)
    $994,731
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $988,686
    Expenses
    $882,743
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,118,876
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $486,587
    Expenses
    $481,780
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,019,530
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $900,200
    Expenses
    $979,057
    Assets (EOY)
    $971,694
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $889,543
    Expenses
    $900,192
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,054,032
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $847,315
    Expenses
    $841,259
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,070,147

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

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Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.