Texas · Nonprofit
SOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW
SOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW (Texas) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $743,365 to it, the largest being THE GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($400,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
SOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW's revenue grew 70% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 170 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002shared funderslocalportfolio match
- Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trusteeshared funders
- Burnett Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of SOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $17k → $165k.
3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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: $24M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fort Worth Stock Show Syndicate). These are real filings, and they are not money SOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW raised.
From the IRS filings of SOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW’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
SOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
76% 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 SOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 87% · 2019 53% · 2020 57% · 2021 98% · 2022 49% · 2023 61% — 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
25% of SOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
71% of SOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $214k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $530k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 17 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002shared funderslocalportfolio matchIL · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · funds 57 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trusteeshared fundersTX · backs 43 organizations that share your funders
- Burnett Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tj Brown & Ca Lupton Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hazelwood Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dee J Kelly Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bellinger Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William E Scott Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Philecology Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- R David and Sherri M Jones Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Morris Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · funds 74 organizations near you
- Paul E Andrews Jr Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · funds 70 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like SOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Agricultural Development Fund · exempt
- Event Facilities Fort Worth Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW?
- SOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW (Texas) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $743,365 to it, the largest being THE GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($400,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $743,365 in grants to SOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW?
- THE GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW 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 17funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing