Texas · Nonprofit
WORKING RANCH COWBOYS FOUNDATION
WORKING RANCH COWBOYS FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $414,253 to it, the largest being AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC ($70,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $414k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Working Ranch Cowboys Foundation does
Mission
To provide educational scholarships for children in ranching families and to provide humanitarian relief to ranching familes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
To provide relief for ranch families affected by catastropic events.
$802,143 spentof which $772,189 as grants78% of program spendingTo provide scholarship assistance to deserving students from ranching families.
$106,350 spentof which $105,750 as grants10% of program spendingTo provide help to ranching activities that were affected by recent weather catasophic events in area causing severe damage.
Expenses related to activites involving ranching families.
$122,717 spent12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,031,210.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $2.7M to $700k (−74%).
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.
69% of WORKING RANCH COWBOYS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Patricia Fitzgerald
Chairwoman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $113k → $50k.
7 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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: $453k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Working Ranch Cowboys Association). These are real filings, and they are not money WORKING RANCH COWBOYS FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of WORKING RANCH COWBOYS FOUNDATION’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
WORKING RANCH COWBOYS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
72% 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 WORKING RANCH COWBOYS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 54% · 2019 52% · 2020 37% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
44% of WORKING RANCH COWBOYS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
56% of WORKING RANCH COWBOYS FOUNDATION'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 $180k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $234k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
WORKING RANCH COWBOYS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like WORKING RANCH COWBOYS FOUNDATION
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WORKING RANCH COWBOYS FOUNDATION?
- WORKING RANCH COWBOYS FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $414,253 to it, the largest being AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC ($70,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WORKING RANCH COWBOYS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $414,253 in grants to WORKING RANCH COWBOYS FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORKING RANCH COWBOYS FOUNDATION?
- AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORKING RANCH COWBOYS FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 14 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