Arkansas Livestock Show Assoc

Analysis

Arkansas Livestock Show Assoc is a registered charity in United States, based in Little Rock, AR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1952, 74 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation and sports, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Arkansas Livestock Show Assoc reported income of $5.7m and spending of $5.3m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $6.0m to $5.7m (-4.4%), an average of -1.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 153%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Arkansas Livestock Show Assoc sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 99% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within AR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include American Numismatic Association ($5.7m), Christian Camps & Conferences ($5.7m) and Greater Las Vegas Inner-City Games ($5.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 28% and program service revenue 62% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $107k (2.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $622k. It paid $117k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $5.9m against liabilities of $186k, net assets of $5.8m. It reported 329 employees.