· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 78 grants below total $3,710,700 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $18,942,646 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,231,946 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k42 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k34 grants · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHREINER UNIVERSITY | $230,000 |
| NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON- DOWNTOWN | $125,000 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT COLLEGE | $120,000 |
| TEXAS 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $109,500 |
| TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION | $100,800 |
| NEUHAUS EDUCATION CENTER | $100,000 |
| SMALL STEPS NURTURING CENTER | $100,000 |
| TEXAS WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY | $88,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS | $75,000 |
| TEXAS HEARING INSTITUTE | $75,000 |
| HOUSTON SPCA | $72,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CTR | $72,000 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY - KINGSVILLE | $70,400 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $492k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
84 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $641k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SUSchreiner University8× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +73%
- TWThe W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +43%
- TATexas A&M Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +90%
Funded once
- SUSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +59%
- SISpring Independent School Districtone grant, 2017 · $74k
- TATexas A & M AGRILIFE EXTENSION SERVICEone grant, 2017 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
American Leadership Forum (ALF) brings together, in classes, leaders with diverse perspectives so they can build relationships, learn to dialogue and respectfully differ, and work together for the good of our community.
Good Reason Houston strives to grow and sustain great schools while advocating for families and communities.
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
See Schedule OThe purpose of Awty International School (Awty) is to create an environment where students experience excellence every day to make their mark on the world alongside their community, in a spirit of curiosity, courage and…
Develop, promote, and present programs of continuing education and professional development interest to cpas in the houston area. the foundation also has fundraising programs for endowments and chartiable causes
See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…
See Schedule O. The Fay School ("the School") is a nonsectarian, not-for-profit, co-educational school in which children of diverse talents and backgrounds with strong academic abilities are offered a high-quality education in a secure,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Ballet Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Comp-U-Dopt Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 106 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Schreiner University ↗
- Who funds The W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds Small Steps Nurturing Center ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR TX WILDLIFE ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds Educational Programs Inspiring Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION I ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Brenda & John H Duncan Rise School of Houston ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Ballet Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALLEY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds BOOKS BETWEEN KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Theatre Under the Stars Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.