Denver, CO

NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL RODEO ASSOCIATION INC

EIN 46-6015501

Education & Youth Development Youth Sports & Recreation Children & youth

Mission

Promote the sport of rodeo and the highest type of conduct and sportsmanship and expose its positive image to the general public; preserve the Western heritage; offer a privilege of family bonding and continuing education; and maintain the highest regard for the livestock.

IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity Contributions are tax-deductible

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About NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL RODEO ASSOCIATION INC

The National High School Rodeo Association, Inc. (EIN 46-6015501) is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit headquartered in Denver, Colorado that organizes and governs competitive rodeo for junior high and high school students. The association promotes sportsmanship, horsemanship and character development while operating a suite of member programs, state/provincial associations, and national finals events.

NHSRA runs the National High School Finals Rodeo (NHSFR) and the National Junior High Finals Rodeo (NJHFR), maintains scholarship programs through the NHSR Foundation and state/provincial associations, and supports safety, education and youth leadership initiatives. The organization reports a multi-thousand-member base (official materials reference membership in the tens of thousands and regular NHSFR fields of roughly 1,500+ contestants) and remains active with national finals, sanctioned rodeos, and scholarship distributions in recent years.

Notable achievements

Annual NHSFR — "World's Largest Rodeo"

Operates the National High School Finals Rodeo, which regularly fields over 1,500 student contestants and is described by the association as the organization’s signature national finals event drawing competitors from across the U.S. and international member associations.

Scholarship Programs & Foundation

Through the NHSR Foundation and state/provincial merit scholarships, the association and its foundation award hundreds of thousands of dollars in college scholarships annually to qualifying junior high and high school members, plus additional named and sponsor-funded awards and monthly student-athlete scholarships.

Organizational Scale & Financial Position

Recent public filings show the organization operating at multi‑million dollar scale (reported revenue in the low tens of millions and net assets in the low tens of millions on recent Form 990 filings), supporting national programming, finals operations, and scholarship distributions.

At a glance

Total assets: $14.3M
Annual revenue: $10.3M
Tax status: 501(c)(3)Public charity
EIN: 46-6015501
Location: Denver, CO
Website: nhsra.com
On Mahalo since: September 2026

Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.

Recognition

Active 501(c)(3) public charity (tax-exempt status recognized by the IRS; organization files annual Form 990).

Rated on third-party charity evaluation platforms and listed in nonprofit databases as an established national youth sports nonprofit (profiled by Charity Navigator and nonprofit data services).

Longstanding national presence and historical legacy — founded from the first national finals in 1949 and continuing multi-decade youth rodeo programming.

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