Texas · Nonprofit
AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION
AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,461,081 to it, the largest being US LIVESTOCK GENETICS EXPORTS INC ($1,399,181). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $67M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $65M
What American Quarter Horse Association does
Mission
To record and preserve the pedigree of the American Quarter Horse, while maintaining its welfare and integrity and promoting lifelong enjoyment of the breed.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
To collect, preserve, and maintain records on the pedigrees of the american quarter horse and to promote education relating to the breed. As of 9/30/2025, the association had 225,266 members and is maintaining 7,198,536 registrations of horses and their related records.
Aqha provides the aqha professional horseman's association for professional horse trainers in good standing; the aqha stewards program to ensure safety and fairness at events; and the aqha leveling program to provide a place for every level of exhibitor at aqha shows and events. Aqha shows offers something for everyone, no matter the experience level or preferred disciplines. We offer a wide range of show levels with classes in halter, english and western disciplines. In 2025, there were a total of 1,974 shows with 756,109 total show entries.
Publication of the american quarter horse journal and quarter horse racing journal are meant to provide the most timely, comprehensive, and accessible information available in the industry. Total circulation of these publications as of 9/30/2025 was 143,800.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $74M to $95M (+28%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 6% · 2023 1% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Karl R Stressman
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $155k → $102k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $345k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Quarter Horse Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 93% · 2022 98% · 2023 93% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4k on record.
- Exhibitions,Shows,Spec.Events$4k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- American Quarter Horse Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION?
- AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,461,081 to it, the largest being US LIVESTOCK GENETICS EXPORTS INC ($1,399,181). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,461,081 in grants to AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION?
- US LIVESTOCK GENETICS EXPORTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,399,181 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing