Texas · Nonprofit
RIO GRANDE VALLEY LIVESTOCK SHOW INC
RIO GRANDE VALLEY LIVESTOCK SHOW INC (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $430,855 to it, the largest being American Electric Power Foundation ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.4M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $431k
- Net assets
- $7.9M
What Rio Grande Valley Livestock Show Inc does
Mission
To provide a safe and educational environment that promotes family, community and volunteerism. We strive to promote the youth of south texas through leadership development, agricultural education, and competition with a goal of creating leaders of tomorrow.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization provided a ten day show for students to exhibit their animals, art, horticulture, and shop projects. The rio grande valley livestock show awarded an estimated $1,377,500 during the march 2024 show. These awards included: market premiums, breeding premiums, other premiums, various auction re-sale, various awards and prizes. The organization also awarded 62 scholarships totaling $42,550.
$8,318,165 spentof which $42,550 as grants$3,121,783 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe organization provided a two day show centered around citrus and vegetables in order to educate youth and promote agriculture. Student members of 4-h, ffa, and ffcla throughout the rio grande valley in grades 3rd to 12th participated in a number of events from ag product id to poster contests.
$292 spent$9,800 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,318,457.
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 $10M to $11M (+11%).
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 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 13% · 2022 10% · 2023 6% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Luis H Saldana
Executive director/general
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $25k → $83k.
From the IRS filings of RIO GRANDE VALLEY LIVESTOCK SHOW INC’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
RIO GRANDE VALLEY LIVESTOCK SHOW INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 RIO GRANDE VALLEY LIVESTOCK SHOW INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 43% · 2021 41% · 2022 60% · 2023 60% — 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.
Where its funders are
54% of RIO GRANDE VALLEY LIVESTOCK SHOW INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
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 RIO GRANDE VALLEY LIVESTOCK SHOW INC
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RIO GRANDE VALLEY LIVESTOCK SHOW INC: 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 RIO GRANDE VALLEY LIVESTOCK SHOW INC?
- RIO GRANDE VALLEY LIVESTOCK SHOW INC (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $430,855 to it, the largest being American Electric Power Foundation ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RIO GRANDE VALLEY LIVESTOCK SHOW INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $430,855 in grants to RIO GRANDE VALLEY LIVESTOCK SHOW INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RIO GRANDE VALLEY LIVESTOCK SHOW INC?
- American Electric Power Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RIO GRANDE VALLEY LIVESTOCK SHOW INC 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 6 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