Texas · Public charity
Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show
The corporation is organized and is to be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes. The corporation is organized to hold agricultural fairs and encourage agricultural pursuits. Particularly, the corporation is organized and operated to encourage and promote the breeding, raising and marketing of better…
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2026
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Itemized, FY2026
- $370k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2026
- $48,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $103,441
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 1
- Total assets, FY2026
- $63M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 22% of the organizations Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 10 | $370k | 0% |
| FY2025 | 9 | $390k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $391k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $277k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $35k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $351k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $276k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $233k | 47% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Worth Museum of Science and History | $400,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Mustang Heritage Foundation | $392,160 | 6 | 3% |
| Cook Children's Medical Center | $351,200 | 9 | 0% |
| National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame Inc | $260,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Mustang Champions | $219,652 | 3 | 6% |
| Careity Foundation | $214,500 | 5 | 5% |
| The Junior League of Fort Worth Inc | $147,748 | 9 | 2% |
| The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc | $101,050 | 4 | 0% |
| Botanical Research Institute of Texas Inc | $75,500 | 4 | 0% |
| National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum | $75,000 | 9 | 7% |
Show all 26 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Amon G Carter Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show
- How much does Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show give?
- Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show reported 10 itemized grants totaling $369,721, out of $2,967,317 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2025.
- What does Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Health (26%), Animals (24%).
- Who are Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Fort Worth Museum of Science and History ($400k), Mustang Heritage Foundation ($392k), Cook Children's Medical Center ($351k).
- Does Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax, Amon G Carter Foundation, Bnsf Railway Foundation.
- Where is Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show based?
- Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show is based in TX.
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