· Public charity
Aberdeen Area Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc
As the tourism marketing agency for the City of Aberdeen, our mission is to enhance the economic well-being of the Aberdeen region by increasing the amount of visitor and meeting activity that occurs in the area.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of Aberdeen Area Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $52,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $78,900 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $26,900 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Aberdeen Swim Club | $12,000 |
| Aberdeen Aqua Addicts Ski Team | $10,000 |
| Aberdeen Amateur Hockey Association | $10,000 |
| Hub City Soccer Club | $8,000 |
| Special Olympics South Dakota | $6,000 |
| Aberdeen Gun Club | $6,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Aberdeen Area Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in SD; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AAABERDEEN AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION4× · 2019–2024 · $48k · revenue +69%
- AYAberdeen Youth Soccer Association5× · 2018–2024 · $43k · revenue +45%
- AGABERDEEN GUN CLUB INC5× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- YSYelduz Shrinersgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +44%
- COCity of Aberdeen Parks and Recreation Departmentone grant, 2022 · $15k
- BCBROWN COUNTY SOUTH DAKOTAone grant, 2017 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Creating vitality in the heart of the city.
Volunteer and Board led Association which strives to provide excellent, capable instruction for both aspiring and competitive gymnasts in a fun, safe, and supportive environment, where athletes are taught strength, agility, and flexibility…
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Recruit, retain, expand, and provide entrepreneurial support to enhance economic opportunity in Aberdeen and our surrounding region.
Aberdeen rural fire fighters is a group of volunteer who fight rural fires around the aberdeen rural area. they raise money to help defray the cost of training of the volunteers, they have programs to educate the public on fire safety and…
To champion the economic health and vitality of our community and the greater Aberdeen area while serving as the premier advocate for our members.
Conduct and promote recreational and social programs for youth and adults in the community of aberdeen, maryland.
Youth & adult hockey leagues, tournaments & camps promote youth hockey, develop and encourage sportmanship between all players for the betterment of the individuals physical & social well being.
Provide recreational programs for seniors.
Promote youth ice hockey in south dakota.
Alaska Drillers Baseball Club is a competitive baseball club in Anchorage Alaska. We develop year round teams at the U10-U14 age groups to compete around the state of Alaska. Players will also have the opportunity to be selected to travel…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aberdeen Hardball Association and the most unlike its peers is Pheasants Forever Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ABERDEEN AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Aberdeen Youth Soccer Association ↗
- Who funds ABERDEEN EXCHANGE BMX ↗
- Who funds ABERDEEN SWIM CLUB ↗
- Who funds Northern State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds ABERDEEN GUN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE ABERDEEN AQUA ADDICTS SKI TEAM ↗
- Who funds Aberdeen Youth Wrestling Club ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH DAKOTA INC ↗
- Who funds Aberdeen Area Arts Council ↗
- Who funds PHEASANTS FOREVER INC ↗
- Who funds HUB CITY SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Yelduz Shriners ↗
- Who funds Aberdeen Area Association of Realtors ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACT 2 Inc ↗
- Who funds Aberdeen Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds ABERDEEN HARDBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: South Dakota Community Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Charities Aid Foundation America · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Aberdeen Area Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.