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Amarillo Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc

Promote amarillo as a travel destination, attract visitors, and support the local economy through tourism marketing, events, and visitor services.

$146k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $137,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $146,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,000 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.
$18,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC$26,000
AMARILLO LITTLE THEATRE$21,000
AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE FOUNDATION$18,000
AMARILLO MUSEUM OF ART$18,000
PANHANDLE PLAINS HISTORICAL SOCIETY$17,000
LONE STAR BALLET INC$15,000
AMARILLO OPERA$12,000
TEXAS PANHANDLE HERITAGE FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
02

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 (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 47% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 13%AMARILLO LITTLE THEATRE: $21k → 9%AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC: $26k → 20%LONE STAR BALLET INC: $15k → 9%AMARILLO OPERA: $12k → 20%PANHANDLE PLAINS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $17k → 9%AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE FOUNDATION: $18k → 20%TEXAS PANHANDLE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%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.
03Its 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
Abilene Opera Association

The organization produces an opera or other musical production every year or every other year, and offers related Master Classes and other educational opportunities for elementary school through college.

Arts & Culture
2
American Baroque Opera Company

American baroque opera company operates in the state of texas for the primary purpose of furthering the appreciaton of music, particularly opera, for the general public. american baroque opera company performs select operas throughout the…

Arts & Culture
3
Chamber Music Amarillo

The advancement of the art of chamber music performances and its repertoire through concerts.

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4
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts

The mission of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts shall be to establish and maintain a museum in order to house and exhibit a permanent collection of art as well as to provide space for traveling exhibitions, for the purpose of the…

Arts & Culture
5
Historic Paramount Theatre Inc

Our mission is to manage and promote the Historic Paramount Theatre to benefit the citizens of Abilene, Texas and the surrounding area.

Arts & Culture
6
Abilene Philharmonic Association

Operating orchestra

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7
Art Museum of Southeast Texas

Through unique collections, exhibitions, public programs and outreach in the visual arts, the mission of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas is to provide education, inspiration and creative visions throughout Southeast Texas.

Arts & Culture
8
Texas Ballet Theater Inc

Texas ballet theater creates, presents, and tours world class ballet, from classical to cutting edge, and promotes its appreciation, accessibility, and technical mastery among students, pre-professionals, and audiences of all ages.

Arts & Culture
9
Tx Performing Chinese Arts
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10
Texas International Theatrical Arts Society

We entertain, educate, and inspire by curating and commissioning extraordinary dance and perfomance art from around the world.

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11
The Austin Symphony Orchestra Society Inc

To present, promote, encourage, and advance musical education and enjoyment of orchestra music to the citizens of austin and central texas.

Arts & Culture
12
Arkansas Repertory Theatre

To produce a diverse body of theatrical work of the highest artistic standards. with a focus on dramatic storytelling that illuminates the human journey, the theatre entertains, engages and challenges local and regional audiences of all…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amarillo Little Theater Inc; the most unlike its peers is Panhandle-Plains Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

8 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
1/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC: $26,000 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO SYMPHONY INCAMARILLO LITTLE THEATER INC: $21,000 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO LITTLE THEATER INCAMARILLO ART CENTER ASSOCIATION: $18,000 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO ART CENTER ASSOCIATIONPANHANDLE-PLAINS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $17,000 · Arts & CulturePANHANDLE-PLAINS HISTORICAL SOCIETYAMARILLO OPERA INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO OPERA INCTEXAS PANHANDLE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PANHANDLE HERITAGE FOUNDATIONAMERICAN QUARTER HORSE FOUNDATION: $18,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN QUART…LONE STAR BALLET INC: $15,000 · OtherLONE STAR BA…
Arts & Culture$104,000Animals$18,000Other$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC: $26,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMARILLO LITTLE THEATER INC: $21,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN QUARTER HORSE FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPANHANDLE-PLAINS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $17,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLONE STAR BALLET INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAMARILLO OPERA INC: $12,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTEXAS PANHANDLE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Amarillo Chamber of CommerceTX20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amarillo Chamber of Commerce · Cj and Syble Fowlston Charitable Trust · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · The Don & Sybil Harrington Foundation · Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · M K Brown Foundation Inc · David D & Nona S Payne Foundation Inc · Mays Foundation · Humanities Texas · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Amarillo Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amarillo Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Amarillo Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 8 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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