Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 750608420
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Fort Worth, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8173327064
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,913,257
- Expenses
- $10,541,291
- Assets
- $15,562,068
- Liabilities
- $1,475,014
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
142 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CARL RAY POLK JR (PRESIDENT)
- STEPHN DIEBEL (FIRST VICE PRESIDENT)
- DAN GATTIS (SECOND VICE PRESIDENT/TREASURER)
- ARTHUR G UHL III (PAST PRESIDENT)
- JOHN M JACK SHELTON (PAST PRESIDENT)
- JOHN MEANS (PAST PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JASON SKAGGS (EXEC VP/CEO): $354,306 total reported compensation
- MEGAN WILLS (EXEC DIRECTOR, FINANCE): $219,807 total reported compensation
- MELISSA HAMILTON PARTIAL YEAR (EXEC DIRECTOR, GOVT AFFAIRS): $199,617 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To improve the cattle raising industry in Texas and the southwest through education, market inspection, law enforcement and other member services.
What it reported doing in 2025
Other member services include daily monitoring of state and federal legislation and educational opportunities such as the school for successful ranching, the Texas beef quality producer program and ranching 101 events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -18.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.48; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.7%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 136 of 136 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $354K · 142 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $458K reported
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes executive pay and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.