HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW & RODEO INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

N520

Classification

2000

Street

3 RELIANT PARK

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• - THE 2025 HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO WELCOMED 2.7 MILLION GUESTS OVER THE 23-DAY EVENT, SETTING AN ALL-TIME ATTENDANCE RECORD. - THIS YEAR'S EVENT INCLUDED NINE FIRST-TIME ENTERTAINERS AND 10 AUCTION RECORDS - TOTAL ATTENDANCE FOR ALL ACTIVITIES ON THE GROUNDS, FEB. 27 - MARCH 1 (WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP BAR-B-QUE CONTEST AND FEB. 27 - MARCH 23, 2025 (HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO) REACHED A RECORD BREAKING 2,735,695. - IN THREE DAYS, THE WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP BAR-B-QUE CONTEST ENTERTAINED 226,463 GUESTS. - RODEOHOUSTON AWARDED $2,533,500 TO ITS CONTESTANTS IN 2025. - RODEO FANS GATHERED ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE NRG CENTER ON SUNDAY, MARCH 9 TO CELEBRATE RODEO LEGEND, LEON COFFEE, AS HE WAS INDUCTED INTO THE RODEOHOUSTON HALL OF FAME. - COFFEE WAS NAMED THE 2025 HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE IN OCTOBER. THE RODEOHOUSTON HALL OF FAME RECOGNIZES INDIVIDUALS AND ANIMALS FOR THEIR IMPACT ON THE SUCCESS AND LONGEVITY OF THE RODEO. - LUKE BRYAN WAS INDUCTED INTO THE STAR TRAIL OF FAME, MAKING HIM THE 11TH ENTERTAINER TO BE HONORED WITH A GOLD PLAQUE. - HORSE SHOW COMPETITIONS DREW 5,387 ENTRIES. (HIGHEST # OF ENTRIES SINCE 2003) - THE LIVESTOCK SHOW SAW 33,142 ENTRIES - JUNIOR AUCTION SALES TOTALED $29,652,317, A RODEO RECORD. (UNAUDITED PRELIMINARY TOTALS). - TEN AUCTION GRAND CHAMPION AND RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION LOTS SET RODEO RECORDS. -RODEO UNCORKED! CHAMPION WINE AUCTION: $3,269,729 -RANCHING & WILDLIFE: $530,250 - CALF SCRAMBLE AND JUDGING CONTEST WINNERS RECEIVED 352 CERTIFICATES, EACH WORTH $2,500, TO APPLY TOWARD THE PURCHASE OF A REGISTERED BEEF HEIFER OR STEER TO EXHIBIT AT THE 2025 HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO. CERTIFICATE PREMIUMS TOTALED $880,000. - CALF SCRAMBLE EXHIBITORS FROM 2024 WHO RETURNED WITH THEIR HEIFER OR STEER PROJECTS TO COMPETE AT THE 2025 HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW RECEIVED MORE THAN $100,000 TOTAL IN PREMIUMS AND AWARDS. - THE SUPER SCRAMBLE COMPETITION WAS ADDED IN 2022, WHERE THE "FIRST CATCH" SCRAMBLERS FROM EACH OF THE PREVIOUS CALF SCRAMBLE PERFORMANCES WERE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE EVENT SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 2025. THE SCRAMBLERS HAD AN EXTRA CHANCE TO CATCH ONE OF THE NINE CALVES DURING THE EVENT, AND EACH PARTICIPANT WAS AWARDED A CASH PRIZE BASED ON THEIR PERFORMANCE. THE EVENT AWARDED AN ADDITIONAL $42,000 IN CASH PRIZES FOR TEXAS YOUTH. - THE RODEO COMMITTED $28,058,754 TO THE YOUTH OF TEXAS IN 2025: - $14,718,000 IN SCHOLARSHIPS TO BE AWARDED THIS SUMMER; - $9,764,100 TO JUNIOR SHOW EXHIBITORS; - $3,095,554 IN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM GRANTS; AND - $481,100 IN GRADUATE ASSISTANTSHIPS THE HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO PROMOTES AGRICULTURE BY HOSTING AN ANNUAL, FAMILY-FRIENDLY EXPERIENCE THAT EDUCATES AND ENTERTAINS THE PUBLIC, SUPPORTS TEXAS YOUTH, SHOWCASES WESTERN HERITAGE, AND PROVIDES YEAR-ROUND EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. SINCE ITS BEGINNING IN 1932, THE RODEO HAS COMMITTED MORE THAN $630 MILLION TO THE YOUTH OF TEXAS AND EDUCATION. THE 2025 RODEO IS SCHEDULED FOR MARCH 4 - 23. THE 2025 WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP BAR-B-QUE CONTEST, PRESENTED BY COTTON HOLDINGS, IS SCHEDULED FOR FEB. 27 - MARCH 1.

  Expenses $129,484,995 · Revenue $147,119,752

• HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO MAKES GRANTS TO THE AFFILIATED ORGANIZATION HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW & RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND (EIN: 76-0260204) IN SUPPORT OF APPROXIMATELY $20 MILLION IN SCHOLARSHIPS AND EDUCATIONAL GRANTS AWARDED.

  Expenses $19,791,533 · Grants $19,791,533

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $231,066,884

  Expenses

  $185,387,526

  Contributions

  $72,358,553

  Grants paid

  $19,791,533

• 2023

  Revenue

  $212,809,226

  Expenses

  $168,125,427

  Contributions

  $66,739,304

  Grants paid

  $16,231,446

• 2022

  Revenue

  $192,227,927

  Expenses

  $153,785,676

  Contributions

  $56,636,406

  Grants paid

  $12,366,027

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $189,558,497

  Expenses

  $139,140,421

  Assets (EOY)

  $362,711,268

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $36,898,935

  Expenses

  $58,080,224

  Assets (EOY)

  $390,248,406

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $77,585,862

  Expenses

  $92,359,041

  Assets (EOY)

  $373,631,947

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $151,417,772

  Expenses

  $133,708,058

  Assets (EOY)

  $367,174,438

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $141,301,219

  Expenses

  $116,193,081

  Assets (EOY)

  $351,149,076

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW & RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND

  $19,791,533

  2024 · THE EDUCATION FUNDS

• HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW & RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND

  $16,231,446

  2023 · THE EDUCATION FUNDS

• HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW & RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND

  $12,366,027

  2022 · THE EDUCATION FUNDS

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $750,145

  2023 · HUMAN SERVICES

• GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $718,136

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

• GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $588,079

  2022 · HUMAN SERVICES

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $427,853

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $351,882

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $269,070

  2023 · CULTURE

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $245,665

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• LADIES INTO PURCHASING STOCK INC

  $189,602

  2025

• LADIES INTO PURCHASING STOCK INC

  $181,909

  2024

• LADIES INTO PURCHASING STOCK INC

  $180,192

  2023

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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