How much does Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund give?

Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund reported 78 itemized grants totaling $3,710,700, out of $18,942,646 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 73 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

Who are Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Schreiner University ($1.8M), The W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation ($1.3M), Cristo Rey Jesuit High School of Houston Inc ($1.2M).

Does Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Strake Foundation.

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Texas · Public charity

Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund

The HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND (the "educational fund") was incorporated under the laws of the state of texas in june 1988 and was granted tax exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code in april 1989. The educational fund was organized for charitable, educational and scientific purposes,…

$19M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 78
Itemized grants FY2025: 63
Organizations funded FY2024: 2%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $3.7M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $40,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $230,000
Organizations funded a year: 57 to 73; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $125M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 2% of the organizations Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationHealthOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	76	$3.7M	21%
FY2024	63	$3.2M	2%
FY2023	63	$3.0M	0%
FY2022	58	$2.8M	0%
FY2021	57	$2.4M	2%
FY2020	67	$4.4M	4%
FY2019	73	$4.6M	8%
FY2018	72	$4.4M	11%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$17MArts & Culture$3.5MHealth$3.2MYouth Development$2.2MScience & Tech$1.9MEnvironment$1.1MAnimals$909kPublic Safety & Disaster$845kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Schreiner University	$1,753,000	8	1%
The W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation	$1,300,000	9	3%
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School of Houston Inc	$1,180,000	9	n/a
Texas A&M Foundation	$1,109,538	9	0%
Small Steps Nurturing Center	$1,032,000	9	4%
Foundation for Tx Wildlife	$910,000	9	9%
Texas Tech University System	$864,627	9	n/a
Texas A&M University Kingsville	$776,684	9	n/a
Teach for America Inc	$710,000	9	0%
Educational Programs Inspiring Communities Inc	$700,000	9	10%

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All grantees of Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Schreiner University	$1,753,000	8	1%
The W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation	$1,300,000	9	3%
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School of Houston Inc	$1,180,000	9	n/a
Texas A&M Foundation	$1,109,538	9	0%
Small Steps Nurturing Center	$1,032,000	9	4%
Foundation for Tx Wildlife	$910,000	9	9%
Texas Tech University System	$864,627	9	n/a
Texas A&M University Kingsville	$776,684	9	n/a
Teach for America Inc	$710,000	9	0%
Educational Programs Inspiring Communities Inc	$700,000	9	10%
Baylor College of Medicine	$680,000	9	0%
Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals	$661,000	9	1%
The Center for Hearing and Speech	$650,000	8	2%
Houston Grand Opera Association Inc	$650,000	9	0%
Yellowstone Academy Inc Dba Yellowstone Schools	$625,000	9	1%
University of Texas Health Science Center Houston	$600,000	8	n/a
Texas 4-H Youth Development Foundation I	$568,500	9	5%
Houston Police Foundation	$567,142	8	4%
Prairie View a and M University	$541,812	9	n/a
The Brookwood Community Inc	$534,175	9	0%
Houston Symphony Society	$505,000	9	0%
Texas Association of Future Farmers of America	$459,440	7	4%
Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation	$458,700	7	3%
The Brenda & John H Duncan Rise School of Houston	$450,000	9	1%
Texas Southern University Foundatio	$426,000	4	5%
Tarleton State University	$405,593	9	n/a
Children's Museum Inc	$400,000	4	1%
Nasa Shared Services Center	$400,000	4	n/a
Houston Ballet Foundation	$400,000	9	0%
Alley Theatre	$390,000	9	0%
Sam Houston State University	$376,860	9	n/a
Books Between Kids Inc	$360,000	7	3%
Theatre Under the Stars Inc	$340,000	8	1%
Borderlands Research Institute	$316,838	9	n/a
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston	$314,000	9	0%
University of Texas	$300,000	8	n/a
Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area	$290,000	7	0%
Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council	$290,000	7	0%
Texas A&M University-Commerce	$283,884	8	n/a
Houston Community College Foundation	$280,000	8	1%
Medilife of Houston Inc	$278,000	9	30%
Stephen F Austin State University	$256,300	6	n/a
Houston Hispanic Forum	$255,000	5	49%
University of Houston- Downtown	$250,000	2	n/a
Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star	$240,000	9	0%
Knowledge Arts Foundation (Teach)	$240,000	8	7%
First Baptist Church	$225,420	5	n/a
Crime Stoppers of Houston Inc	$225,000	9	1%
Writers in the Schools	$225,000	9	2%
The Hobby Center Foundation	$220,000	6	0%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc	$210,000	7	0%
West Texas A&M University	$205,400	8	n/a
Texas State University	$205,300	9	n/a
Miracle Farm Inc	$205,000	8	2%
Reasoning Mind Inc	$200,000	2	1%
Manned Space Flight Education Foundation Inc	$200,000	1	n/a
Texas Ranger Association Foundation	$196,500	9	5%
Camp For All Foundation	$194,000	9	1%
American Festival for the Arts	$190,000	9	3%
Texas Tech Foundation Inc	$188,656	9	0%
The Council on Recovery	$185,000	7	0%
Angelo State University	$179,100	9	n/a
St John's School	$175,000	8	0%
Boys and Girls Country of Houston Inc	$160,000	6	0%
Texas A&M University	$156,609	8	n/a
Houston Zoo Inc	$150,000	6	0%
Sire Inc	$144,000	9	1%
University of Houston	$140,000	7	n/a
Stephen F Austin State University	$136,200	3	n/a
Chinquapin Preparatory School	$130,000	3	2%
Memorial Park Conservancy Inc	$130,000	2	0%
Houston Health Foundation	$120,000	6	2%
Project GRAD Houston	$100,000	4	2%
Southwestern University	$100,000	1	0%
Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas	$100,000	5	0%
Escape Family Resource Center of the Exchange Clubs of Houston	$100,000	2	n/a
The Longhorn Project Advisory Board	$98,427	3	22%
Texas Future Farmers of America Foundation Inc	$87,000	2	n/a
Houston Area Women's Center	$85,000	3	0%
Archway Academy	$80,000	4	1%
Harris County Hospital District Foundation	$80,000	3	1%
BakerRipley	$75,000	3	0%
Spring Independent School District	$74,331	1	n/a
University of St Thomas	$72,000	1	0%
Lone Star Flight Museum	$60,000	2	1%
Texas A & M AGRILIFE EXTENSION SERVICE	$50,000	1	n/a
Houston Botanic Garden	$50,000	1	n/a
Chinese Community Center Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Houston Revision	$50,000	1	n/a
Bear Be a Resource for Cps Kids	$50,000	1	1%
Texas High School Rodeo Association	$40,000	1	1%
KIPP Inc dba Knowledge is Power Program Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Breakthrough Houston	$25,000	1	n/a
Shriner's Hospital for Children	$25,000	1	n/a
Community Family Centers Inc	$25,000	1	1%
iWRITE	$20,000	2	10%
Young Audiences Inc of Houston	$20,000	1	1%
Bryan Educational Institute	$17,000	1	n/a
National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association	$15,000	1	1%
Comp-U-Dopt Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Greater Houston Partnership Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Inspiration Ranch Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Pro-Vision Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
North Harris Montgomery Community College District	$6,026	1	n/a
The Native Prairies Association of Texas	$6,000	1	n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($730k), not named here.

Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 69 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 69.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX62.1× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Strake Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Powell Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Houston Endowment Inc · The Junior League of Houston Inc · MD Anderson Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund

How much does Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund give?: Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund reported 78 itemized grants totaling $3,710,700, out of $18,942,646 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 73 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (52%), Arts & Culture (11%), Health (10%).
Who are Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Schreiner University ($1.8M), The W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation ($1.3M), Cristo Rey Jesuit High School of Houston Inc ($1.2M).
Does Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Strake Foundation.
Where is Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund based?: Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund is based in TX.