Montana · Nonprofit
Northern Internat'l Livestock Exposition
Northern Internat'l Livestock Exposition (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $34,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION ($34,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $34k
- Net assets
- $881k
What Northern Internat'l Livestock Exposition does
Mission
Dedicated to promoting agriculture, livestock production, and respect of western tradition.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The premiere event of the NILE is a week-long stock show and trade show held in October each year. Hundreds of exhibitors from across the United States and Canada bring livestock to Billings, Montana to show and sell at the NILE. In addition to the cattle shows and sales, top-quality horses are shown in a wide variety of events. Education plays a major role in the NILE with junior livestock and horse shows, youth judging contests, and three days of 4th grade ag education events.
Pro rodeo - ranked among the world's top 100 rodeos, draws top contestants in all seven professional rodeo events, as cowboys and cowgirls across the nation compete to earn points towards the National Finals Rodeo.
General member services - to carry on the mission of the organization.
Montana Agri-Trade Exposition/Home & Wellness Show ("MATE") - The largest agricultural trade show in Montana features over 6,000 booths and large outside exhibits and offers daily education seminars related to agriculture.
PBR Bull Ride - Part of the Professional Bull Riders Elite Tour known as the Built Ford Tough Series, limited to the top 45 cowboys in the world. The NILE provides hospitality room and calcutta functions only for NILE Members during the PBR. The NILE also receives commission from PBR for ticket sales.
Ranch Rodeo produced annually with competition featuring top ranch hands from Montana, Wyoming, and surrounding region.
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 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 2024 to 2025, from $1.4M to $1.2M (−15%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $11k → $12k.
From the IRS filings of Northern Internat'l Livestock Exposition’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.
Where its funders are
Northern Internat'l Livestock Exposition draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 1 state 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.
Organizations like Northern Internat'l Livestock Exposition
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- NILE Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Northern Internat'l Livestock Exposition: 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 Northern Internat'l Livestock Exposition?
- Northern Internat'l Livestock Exposition (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $34,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION ($34,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Northern Internat'l Livestock Exposition have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $34,000 in grants to Northern Internat'l Livestock Exposition, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Northern Internat'l Livestock Exposition?
- AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $34,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Northern Internat'l Livestock Exposition find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 1 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