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Aberdeen Area Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc at a glance

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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.

$97k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$426kArts & Culture$49kAnimals$21kMembership Benefit$15kCommunity Improvement$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$10k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $51,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $96,602 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $45,602 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$841k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Aberdeen Amateur Hockey Association$15,000
Aberdeen Swim Club$12,000
Aberdeen BMX Inc$10,000
Hub City Soccer Club$8,000
Special Olympics South Dakota$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Pheasants Forever Inc - APC Fund: $11k → 14%Special Olympics of South Dakota: $7k → 9%NSU Foundation: $20k → 11%Pheasants Forever - APC Fund: $10k → 14%Special Olympics South Dakota: $6k → 9%Northern State University: $20k → 11%Special Olympics of South Dakota: $6k → 9%NSU Foundation: $20k → 11%Special Olympics South Dakota: $6k → 9%Northern State University: $17k → 11%Special Olympics South Dakota: $6k → 9%Yelduz Shriners: $15k → 11%South Dakota Emergency Medical Services Association Inc: $10k → 9%Aberdeen Parks Rec & Forestry: $15k → 11%Brown County Fair: $15k → 11%Aberdeen BMX: $15k → 11%Aberdeen Exchange BMX: $11k → 11%Aberdeen Softball Association aka Hub City Softball Association: $10k → 11%Aberdeen BMX Inc: $10k → 11%NSU Foundation: $10k → 11%Aberdeen Softball Association: $10k → 11%Hub City Soccer Club: $8k → 11%Hub City Soccer Club: $8k → 11%Hub City Soccer Club: $8k → 11%Aberdeen Youth Soccer Association: $8k → 11%Hub City Hotshots Baseball: $8k → 11%NSU Athletic Department: $7k → 11%Aberdeen Area Arts Council: $7k → 11%Aberdeen Youth Wrestling Club: $7k → 11%South Dakota Film Festival dba Aberdeen Community Theatre: $6k → 11%Aberdeen Arts Council: $6k → 11%Aberdeen Area Arts Council: $6k → 11%NSU Athletic Department: $5k → 11%Aberdeen BMX: $5k → 11%Aberdeen Arts Council: $5k → 11%Aberdeen Family YMCA: $5k → 11%Aberdeen BMX: $5k → 11%Aberdeen University Civic Symphony: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Aberdeen Area Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in SD; by stated purpose, 90%.

Aberdeen Area Convention and Visitors Bureau Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$483k · 13 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
11

Total granted

$483k
$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+63%

Still filing today

85%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsPhilanthropyArts & CultureMembership BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AA
    ABERDEEN AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2019–2025 · $63k · revenue +69%
  • AY
    Aberdeen Youth Soccer Association
    6× · 2018–2025 · $51k · revenue +45%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH DAKOTA INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $31k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • BC
    BROWN COUNTY SOUTH DAKOTA
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • CO
    City of Aberdeen Parks and Recreation Department
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • YS
    Yelduz Shrinersgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +44%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Aberdeen Air Show Inc
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2
Aberdeen Downtown Association

Creating vitality in the heart of the city.

Community Improvement
3
Aberdeen Gymnastics Association

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…

Recreation & Sports
4
Aberdeen Area Community Foundation Inc

None

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5
Aberdeen Development Corporation

Recruit, retain, expand, and provide entrepreneurial support to enhance economic opportunity in Aberdeen and our surrounding region.

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6
Aberdee Rural Fire Fighters

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…

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7
Aberdeen Area Chamber of Commerce

To champion the economic health and vitality of our community and the greater Aberdeen area while serving as the premier advocate for our members.

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8
Aberdeen Board Parks & Recreation Inc

Conduct and promote recreational and social programs for youth and adults in the community of aberdeen, maryland.

Recreation & Sports
9
Alaska State Hockey Association Inc

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.

Unclassified
10
South Dakota Amateur Hockey Association

Promote youth ice hockey in south dakota.

Youth Development
11
Aberdeen Senior Center Inc

Provide recreational programs for seniors.

Human Services
12
Burnsville-Minnesota Valley Figure Skating Club

To encourage the instruction, practice & advancement of the members in the discipline of figure skating. To encourage the fraternal feeling among ice skaters & cooperate to produce amateur events.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aberdeen Hardball Association; 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.
05the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $69,000 · OtherSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITYABERDEEN SWIM CLUB: $43,000 · OtherABERDEEN SWIM CLUBNorthern State University Foundation: $30,000 · OtherNorthern State University FoundationABERDEEN GUN CLUB INC: $30,000 · OtherABERDEEN GUN CLUB INCAberdeen Area Arts Council: $22,500 · OtherAberdeen Area Arts CouncilPHEASANTS FOREVER INC: $20,500 · OtherPHEASANTS FOREVER INCBROWN COUNTY SOUTH DAKOTA: $15,000 · OtherCity of Aberdeen Parks and Recreation Department: $15,000 · OtherAberdeen Area Association of Realtors: $10,500 · OtherSOUTH DAKOTA EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Other+4 more: $22,500 · Other+4 moreABERDEEN AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $63,000 · Recreation & SportsABERDEEN AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATIONAberdeen Youth Soccer Association: $51,000 · Recreation & SportsAberdeen Youth Soccer AssociationSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH DAKOTA INC: $30,500 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH DAKOTA INCTHE ABERDEEN AQUA ADDICTS SKI TEAM: $29,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE ABERDEEN AQUA ADDICTS SKI TEAMAberdeen Youth Wrestling Club: $27,750 · Recreation & SportsAberdeen Youth Wrestling ClubHUB CITY SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsHUB CITY SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION+1 more: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsABERDEEN EXCHANGE BMX: $46,300 · PhilanthropyABERDEEN …Yelduz Shriners: $15,000 · Membership BenefitACT 2 Inc: $6,400 · Arts & Culture
Other$288,000Recreation & Sports$226,250Philanthropy$46,300Membership Benefit$15,000Arts & Culture$6,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetABERDEEN AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $63,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetAberdeen Youth Soccer Association: $51,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetABERDEEN EXCHANGE BMX: $46,300 over 5y, 10% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH DAKOTA INC: $30,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNorthern State University Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetABERDEEN GUN CLUB INC: $30,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetTHE ABERDEEN AQUA ADDICTS SKI TEAM: $29,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetAberdeen Area Arts Council: $22,500 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetPHEASANTS FOREVER INC: $20,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUB CITY SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetYelduz Shriners: $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetAberdeen Area Association of Realtors: $10,500 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetACT 2 Inc: $6,400 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAberdeen Family YMCA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

South Dakota Communit…Sanford Group ReturnCharities Aid Foundat…Amazonsmile Foundation
South Dakota Community FoundationSD19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: South Dakota Community Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Charities Aid Foundation America · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Aberdeen Area Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aberdeen Area Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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