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NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RODEO ASSOCIATION

NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RODEO ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,000 to it, the largest being HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.3M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$21k
Net assets
$3.1M
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association does

Mission

Promote intercollegiate rodeo activities, maintain an operating code for intercollegiate competition, and coordinate intercollegiate rodeo on a national level.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association (nira) is the sanctioning body for the sport of college rodeo. The nira sanctions 120 rodeos a year, maintains academic eligibility on approximately 3,700 student members a year, maintains memberships for approximately 125 schools and universities. The nira hosts the college national finals rodeo (cnfr), which is a national championship rodeo, in june each year. The mission of the nira is to foster and develop rodeo at the college level so that it will provide educational and competitive opportunities for students.

    $1,651,789 spentof which $129,710 as grants$2,235,877 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,651,789.

02The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2018 Revenue 101 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 108 ($1.9M)2019 Revenue 99 ($1.7M) Expenses 101 ($1.7M) Net assets 113 ($2.0M)2020 Revenue 58 ($1.0M) Expenses 61 ($989k) Net assets 115 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 98 ($1.7M) Expenses 90 ($1.5M) Net assets 129 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 112 ($2.0M) Expenses 104 ($1.7M) Net assets 144 ($2.5M)2023 Revenue 111 ($2.0M) Expenses 108 ($1.8M) Net assets 155 ($2.7M)2024 Revenue 121 ($2.1M) Expenses 114 ($1.9M) Net assets 170 ($3.0M)2025 Revenue 129 ($2.3M) Expenses 129 ($2.1M) Net assets 180 ($3.1M)
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Revenue (129)Expenses (129)Net assets (180)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.0M to $2.3M (+16%).

$1.8M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$2.0M
$2.3M
$2.6M
$2.8M
$3.1M
$3.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$120k
’17
$145k
’18
$79k
’19
$34k
’20
$245k
’21
$266k
’22
$189k
’23
$264k
’24
$164k
’25
17
months of
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.

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Listed232323222324232329
Joined·+7+8+3+12+13+2+14+9
No longer listed·78411123143
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $6k.

Funder
'17
'18
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RODEO 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 INTERCOLLEGIATE RODEO ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RODEO ASSOCIATION.

71%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% — broadly stable.

“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

NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RODEO ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 2 states in all.

WY
TX

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

’17
’18
Washington out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RODEO 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 Washington

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

24
board members
96%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • National Intercollegiate Rodeo Foundation · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RODEO 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 INTERCOLLEGIATE RODEO ASSOCIATION?
NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RODEO ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,000 to it, the largest being HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RODEO ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $21,000 in grants to NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RODEO ASSOCIATION.
Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RODEO ASSOCIATION?
HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RODEO ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2 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