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Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association

Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being SOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW ($17,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$22M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$18k
Net assets
$34M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association does

Mission

Our mission is to grow the sport of pro rodeo, positively impact our communities, and provide an exceptional experience for our members, fans, and sponsors. Continued, see schedule o.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The organization provides several services to its members: registering the contestant members in rodeo events, providing a fair and impartial interpretation of the membership rule book and enforcing infractions, facilitating the election of the board of directors and rodeo event representatives and the proper recording and timely notification of membership prize money standings in order to validate participation in regional and national championships.

  2. Judging - the organization provides a certified member judging program. These member judges officiate all professional rodeo events. Expenses for the judging program include: salaries contract judges, travel and lodging.

  3. Animal welfare - the organization provides direct funding to programs that promote the sport of professional rodeo, animal welfare, the rodeo circuit system and the american western way of life.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

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 ($12M) Expenses 100 ($12M) Net assets 100 ($13M)2018 Revenue 99 ($12M) Expenses 101 ($12M) Net assets 96 ($13M)2020 Revenue 257 ($32M) Expenses 249 ($30M) Net assets 112 ($15M)2021 Revenue 119 ($15M) Expenses 92 ($11M) Net assets 140 ($19M)2022 Revenue 130 ($16M) Expenses 116 ($14M) Net assets 156 ($21M)2023 Revenue 160 ($20M) Expenses 121 ($15M) Net assets 200 ($27M)2024 Revenue 178 ($22M) Expenses 136 ($16M) Net assets 259 ($34M)
2017201820202021202220232024
Revenue (178)Expenses (136)Net assets (259)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $24M to $32M (+32%).

$16M
$16M
$26M
$23M
$24M
$32M
$38M
2017201820202021202220232024
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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 2%. 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 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$365k
’17
$73k
’18
$1.9M
’20
$3.7M
’21
$2.2M
’22
$5.3M
’23
$5.7M
’24
4.7
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.

Chief executive

Tom Glause

CEO

Board chair

Jacobs Crawley

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

2017201820202021202220232024
Listed13131314151715
Joined·+2·+3+4+4+2
No longer listed·2·2324
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $5k.

Funder
'18
'19
'20
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of Professional Rodeo Cowboys 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.

Where its funders are

Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state in all.

TX

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

’18
’19
’20
Colorado 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 Professional Rodeo Cowboys 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 Colorado

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

9
board members
67%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 11 states

ID
OR
NV
CA
CO
NE
MO
AZ
OK
TX
FL

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame & Museum · exempt
  • Prof Rodeo Cowboys Ass(Circuits) · exempt
  • California Cowboys Association Inc · exempt
  • Prca Properties Inc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association?
Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being SOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW ($17,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $17,500 in grants to Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association?
SOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW is the largest funder on record, with $17,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 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