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SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC

SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC (Texas) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,666,716 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($336,505). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$51M
Funders on record
61
Grants received
$2.7M
Net assets
$50M
40/61 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What San Antonio Livestock Exposition Inc does

Mission

The opening sentence in san antonio livestock exposition's (sale) website - " a volunteer organization that emphasizes agriculture and education to develop the youth.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. San antonio livestock exposition (sale) annually celebrates livestock, stock show and rodeo held each february. There are various shows and activities that help to educate the public in the many aspects of these events. Various scholarships and funds are awarded to individual entries in the stock show which enables them to extend their education. Net funds from these and other activities are used to award scholarships for those qualified individuals. During february 2025 the program included 18 days of events. During the various livestock and other competitions, over 462 individuals were awarded scholarships; there were over 18,054 livestock competitors; over 1,386 entries in the horse show competition; 384 competitors in the calf scramble; over 1012 participants in the junior livestock auction; and over 450 competitors in the rodeo competition. There were over 7,768 volunteers that helped in all phases and aspects of this event and contributed to its overall success.

    $41,652,191 spentof which $3,798,768 as grants$40,424,988 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $41,652,191.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($33M) Expenses 100 ($33M) Net assets 100 ($31M)2018 Revenue 104 ($35M) Expenses 98 ($33M) Net assets 106 ($33M)2019 Revenue 109 ($36M) Expenses 105 ($35M) Net assets 110 ($34M)2020 Revenue 115 ($38M) Expenses 105 ($35M) Net assets 119 ($37M)2021 Revenue 37 ($12M) Expenses 61 ($20M) Net assets 94 ($29M)2023 Revenue 152 ($50M) Expenses 131 ($44M) Net assets 143 ($44M)2024 Revenue 150 ($50M) Expenses 140 ($47M) Net assets 153 ($47M)2025 Revenue 153 ($51M) Expenses 144 ($48M) Net assets 163 ($50M)
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Revenue (153)Expenses (144)Net assets (163)Peer revenue range

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 $60M to $67M (+13%).

$36M
$37M
$38M
$40M
$39M
$60M
$67M
$71M
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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
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

19% of SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (11% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 336 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$282k
’17
$1.9M
’18
$1.1M
’19
$3.0M
’20
−$8.0M
’21
$6.6M
’23
$2.7M
’24
$2.3M
’25
5.6
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

Cody Davenport

Executive director/CEO

Board chair

Nancy Loeffler

Chairman of the board

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.

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Listed1722241920202223
Joined·+6+5+0+5·+7+2
No longer listed·1354·51
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $133k → $506k.

15 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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

SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left

46% 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 SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC.

13%
largest funder
33%
top three
~18
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 48% · 2019 30% · 2020 16% · 2021 16% · 2022 19% · 2023 13% — 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

54% of SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

91% of SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.

IL
NY
IA
NJ
UT
MO
DE
NC
TX

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

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Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC is better cushioned than half of the 184 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · below the median
Months of reserve5.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 184 recreation & sports nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.

Federal$10k
grants $0contracts $10k
Top agencies
  • Department of Defense$10k

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 SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 10%Fundraising 4%

Governance

15
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

  • San Antonio Livestock Exposition · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC?
SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC (Texas) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,666,716 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($336,505). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC have?
IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $2,666,716 in grants to SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC?
GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $336,505 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION 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 61 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing