Texas · Nonprofit
NATIONAL CUTTING HORSE ASSOCIATION
NATIONAL CUTTING HORSE ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,000 to it, the largest being THE DOGWOOD FOUNDATION ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $66k
- Net assets
- $22M
What National Cutting Horse Association does
Mission
The ncha promotes and celebrates the cutting horse, whose origin on western ranches allows us to support ranching and its western heritage. By establishing rules for the conduct of cutting horse shows, ncha strives to give cutters a level playing field and a progressive class structure, which accomodates everyone from the beginner to the advanced competitor. Ncha draws on the diverse talents and background of its members, and encourages their participation in helping it achieve these goals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Shows-Through exhibitions, NCHA Members can present their cutting horses for evaluation against horses of a similar skillset. NCHA Produces eight events and Approves more than one thousand events held by independent parties, each year. Approved events remit show results to the Association, where earnings data for horse and rider are retained for accolades. Judges-Exhibitors at events present their cutting horses for evaluation by NCHA certified Judges. Judges are granted certification through a testing and approval program. NCHA Produced and Approved events require certified judges for production and approval. Marketing-The promotion of exhibitors and the sport is managed by the Associations Marketing department. Athletes and the sport are promoted via social media and through the Associations monthly, printed magazine, The Cutting Horse Chatter. Operational Systems-Collection and calculation of Produced and Approved events data is managed through the Associations operational systems. The systems store earnings, awards and member data for each of the Associations major departments, including: Shows, Membership, Judges, Stallion Foal, and Youth. Stallion Foal-For the on-going…
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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 2024 to 2025, from $27M to $32M (+20%).
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: 2017 9% · 2018 10% · 2019 11% · 2020 12% · 2021 8% · 2022 8% · 2023 8% · 2024 8% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $434k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ncha Charities Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL CUTTING HORSE ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL CUTTING 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
NATIONAL CUTTING HORSE ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
“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
98% of NATIONAL CUTTING HORSE ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
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.
Organizations like NATIONAL CUTTING HORSE ASSOCIATION
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In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Ncha Charities Foundation · exempt
- Nchas Texas Events PAC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL CUTTING 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 NATIONAL CUTTING HORSE ASSOCIATION?
- NATIONAL CUTTING HORSE ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,000 to it, the largest being THE DOGWOOD FOUNDATION ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL CUTTING HORSE ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $66,000 in grants to NATIONAL CUTTING HORSE ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL CUTTING HORSE ASSOCIATION?
- THE DOGWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL CUTTING 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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