- Revenue 2024
- $816,505
- Expenses 2024
- $878,483
Program services were 94.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- S41
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- 729 WEST PITT ST
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).
Group exemption
A subordinate covered by the group exemption of PENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSN OF COUNTY FAIRS (EIN 23-6443006). matched by us
The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
PRIMARY MISSION IS TO ENCOURAGE AND IMPROVE THE COMMUNITY IN THE SCIENCE OF AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE AND THE MANAGEMENT OF DOMESTIC AND HOUSEHOLD ARTS AND TO IMPROVE THE PUBLIC ON AGRICULTURAL MATTERS CONDUCTING ANNUAL PUBLIC FAIRS AND EXHIBITIONS OF LIVESTOCK, POULTRY, ECT. FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE SCIENCE OF AGRICULTURE.
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ANNUALLY THE SOCIETY HOLDS AN AGRICULTURAL, HORTICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC AND HOUSEHOLD ARTS EXHIBITS FOR ONE WEEK, KNOWN AS THE BEDFORD COUNTY FAIR. THE FAIR WAS HELD THE LAST WEEK OF JULY 2025. NORMALY APPROXIMATELY 53,000 PEOPLE ATTEND THE FAIR THE NUMBER IN ATTENDANCE FOR 2025 WAS A DECREASE OF 4445 FOR A TOTAL ATTENDANCE OF APPROXIMATELY 48,550. AGRICULTURAL, HORTICULTURAL, DOMESTIC AND HOUSEHOD ART EXHIBITS WERE AT A LESS THAN THE PREVIOUSLY YEAR. THE RESULTS OF THE ATTENDANCE AND THE EXHIBITS PROVIDED A VERY SUCCESSFUL FAIR. IN ADDITION THE FACILITIES ARE AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR FOR AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE AND DOMESTIC AND HOUSEHOLD ARTS AND EXHIBITS AND ARE USED ACCORDINGLY.
Expenses $830,426 · Grants $1,150 · Revenue $643,704
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
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.
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MARGARET ZEMBOWER
DIRECTOR MAN
- Total calculated
- $20,592
- From this org
- $20,592
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20
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WILLIAM HOOVER
PRESIDENT DI
- Total calculated
- $0
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JOHN SLOAS
VICE PRESIDE
- Total calculated
- $0
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BARBARA MEARKLE
SECRETARY TR
- Total calculated
- $20,351
- From this org
- $20,351
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20
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HARRY REFFNER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
-
SCOTT MYERS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
-
DWAYNE HAY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
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JOHN E HOLBERT
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
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JEREMY BARNES
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
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TOM WAKEFIELD
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
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
-
2024
- Revenue
- $816,505
- Expenses
- $878,483
- Contributions
- $161,862
- Grants paid
- $1,150
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2023
- Revenue
- $956,870
- Expenses
- $985,458
- Contributions
- $276,508
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $951,076
- Expenses
- $901,809
- Contributions
- $309,995
- Grants paid
- $500
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
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2024 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2023 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $774,808
- Expenses
- $787,620
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,925,068
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2021 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $812,581
- Expenses
- $706,661
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,996,175
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2020 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $435,724
- Expenses
- $443,611
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,823,798
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $830,349
- Expenses
- $676,438
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,835,998
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $822,128
- Expenses
- $710,744
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,697,616
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $663,526
- Expenses
- $612,079
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,580,084
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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.
Grants made
No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.
Grants received
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2022 CAPITAL NEEDS
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
Not present in the most recent drop.
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.