Texas · Nonprofit
Ranching Heritage Association
Ranching Heritage Association (Texas) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,373,371 to it, the largest being HELEN JONES FOUNDATION INC ($2,447,994). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $7.4M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Ranching Heritage Association does
Mission
Preserve and interpret the history of ranching, pioneer life and the development of the livestock industry in north america.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Exhibit expense - acquisition, restoration and maintenance of museum site and exhibits at the national ranching heritage center.
$2,586,884 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,586,884.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.8M to $5.0M (+30%).
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: 2021 26% · 2022 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $70k → $1.3M.
10 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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: $2.0M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Communities Foundation of Texas Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Ranching Heritage Association raised.
From the IRS filings of Ranching Heritage Association’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 funders by total. 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
Ranching Heritage Association has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 92% · 2019 65% · 2020 26% · 2021 40% · 2022 67% · 2023 38% — 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
55% of Ranching Heritage Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
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
97% of Ranching Heritage Association's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $778k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Government funding Ranching Heritage Association receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$100k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Ranching Heritage 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Endowment Fund for the Preservation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ranching Heritage 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 Ranching Heritage Association?
- Ranching Heritage Association (Texas) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,373,371 to it, the largest being HELEN JONES FOUNDATION INC ($2,447,994). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ranching Heritage Association have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $7,373,371 in grants to Ranching Heritage Association, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ranching Heritage Association?
- HELEN JONES FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,447,994 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ranching Heritage 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.
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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 48 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