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HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND

HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $779,214 to it, the largest being AMERICAN GIFT FUND ($172,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$28M
Revenue FY2025
15
Funders on record
$779k
Grants received
$96M
Net assets
10/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 164 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin30% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 164 recreation & sports nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($21M) Expenses 100 ($19M) Net assets 100 ($76M)2018 Revenue 85 ($18M) Expenses 102 ($20M) Net assets 100 ($76M)2019 Revenue 70 ($15M) Expenses 105 ($20M) Net assets 91 ($69M)2020 Revenue 66 ($14M) Expenses 101 ($20M) Net assets 88 ($67M)2021 Revenue 108 ($23M) Expenses 90 ($17M) Net assets 105 ($80M)2022 Revenue 95 ($20M) Expenses 92 ($18M) Net assets 83 ($63M)2023 Revenue 99 ($21M) Expenses 93 ($18M) Net assets 88 ($67M)2024 Revenue 101 ($21M) Expenses 96 ($19M) Net assets 106 ($81M)2025 Revenue 133 ($28M) Expenses 101 ($20M) Net assets 126 ($96M)
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Revenue (133)Expenses (101)Net assets (126)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

91% of HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (10% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 330 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.8M
17
$1.7M
18
$5.4M
19
$5.6M
20
$5.5M
21
$2.3M
22
$3.0M
23
$2.7M
24
$8.6M
25
0.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $270 → $158k.

6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)66% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $98M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND raised.

From the IRS filings of HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND’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

HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

68% 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 HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND.

22%
largest funder
54%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 67% · 2022 27% · 2023 36%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.

How long its funders stay

78% of HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

66% of HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $262k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Texas funders.

IL
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $518k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

19
board members
95%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Inc · exempt
  • Corral Club Inc · corp_trust
  • 1932 Ventures LLC · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND?
HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $779,214 to it, the largest being AMERICAN GIFT FUND ($172,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $779,214 in grants to HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND?
AMERICAN GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $172,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15funders 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing